Images of stock photography such as this one are useful to society because they provide online businesses with useable images as a means of promoting their professions and work. For example, this image comes up as a means of promoting a variety of businesses from counseling to drug rehabilitation centers, to blogs about hiking and nature. With an image such as this one, which shows such a pristine and bucolic representation of nature, it can immediately give the spectator a sense of calm and serenity, as if one is walking through a forest or some other countryside setting.
Hence, it comes as no surprise that other companies and entrepreneurs readily use it to represent more nebulous themes such as hope and healing. For example, the Maine Recovery Centre uses this image as the main picture on the home page of their website. This is a company that focuses on helping individuals build a path to recovery so that they can free themselves from alcohol and drug addiction and the debilitating dependence that these substances can create. Addicts in recovery are essentially trying to chart a new path within their lives, and doing so can be scary and uncertain. This image helps to motivate a notion of how worthwhile this journey is by creating an idea of a life free of this addiction and dependence, and the newness that can be created by such a path. For addicts, this image can evoke a notion of rebirth and renewal: the freshness of spring shown in the photo, the reliable and clear well-worn path of the picture.
In a comparable fashion, this photo is also the main image of the website, Tria Health Behavioral Services, a company which helps people better improve and better understand behavioral health issues. This is a private health provider company that offers help when the habits, actions, stresses, anxieties and concerns of life, one’s biological or physical health start to cause concern. The company provides a path back to wellness and homeostasis for the human organism, so that one can traverse back to a state of balance. Hence, it’s no wonder that this image is often selected for its symbolic representation of the path back to wellness and health. Having health concerns can cause much anxiety for an individual, yet they remain a part of the human experience and the human condition of life on this planet. By harnessing this image of a quiet country road, the behavioral health practice is able to offer the individual a sense of normalcy and calm regardless of their issue of concern. The country path is able to…
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