Since few actually *read* websites anymore, we editors have to find good photos or images to tell the story – or at least, give a visitor a place to rest their eyes before they keep skimming the page.

When the subject is tech, the photos can get … wrong.

Take for example the classic case of the soldering stock photos. Even if *you* don’t know the tech involved, make sure *someone* does. (Full disclosure – a ‘Heart Healthy’ forum poster I made had a vector of an EKG that looked like a heart attack because the squiggly lines looked so appealing ;p)

I don’t know a *ton* about tech, but I do know sound boards. Radio, television, music studios, theaters… all those microphones are controlled by a board with a lot of dials and sliders. Yes, they are probably developed by electrical engineers, but an image of a hand operating a sound board isn’t in my top 100 choices for a photo illustration of EE. Yet that’s what I found from the Bureau of Labor & Statistics. I know how to work a sound board, does this mean I could earn an EE salary?