How can photos be used as illustrations? Young Jewish settler watches as soldiers converse.

1. They attract readers. Young girl holds picture of Princess Diana on the tenth anniversary of her death. In background, flowers have been placed at the entrance to the tunnel in Paris, France, where she died.

2. They picture people, places, or situations about which a story is written. Soldier in Iraq reacts to water being thrown on him during a pause from house-to-house searches.

3. They develop key thoughts. Southern California firefighters battle blazes.

5. They explain details that may be difficult to present in words. Man in India takes in milk through his nose and then releases it through his eyes.

Illustration? World’s largest sand castle

Try to capture people just being themselves.

Ways photos can be used in publications… As an illustration for a news or feature story As a story complete in itself As one element in a story made up of a group of photos

A Los Angeles County firefighter helicopter drops water on a wildfire burning through 3,600 acres of the Angeles National Forest near Glendora, Calif., Sept. 4. It could be a week before firefighters can contain the blaze because of high temperatures and rugged terrain in thick brush that hasn't burned in a couple of decades.

Raising the dead Indonesians of Chinese descent throw fake money to honor their ancestors during the Hungry Ghost Festival in Medan, North Sumatra, on Aug. 31. During the festival, prayers are said so that the souls of ancestors will go to heaven. According to tradition, ghosts and spirits are believed to come out from hell during the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar called the Ghost Month

Assignment From news sites only, find examples of each of the ways pictures can be used as illustrations in the news. They attract readers. They picture people in their environment. They develop key thoughts (fires, issues). They explain hard details (milk from eyes). They just capture people being themselves.