Picture credits
Every photograph here was released by the person who took it into the public domain, and every one links back to where it came from. You can check it rather than take our word for it, which is the same thing we ask of ourselves everywhere else on this site.
The photographs
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A mother and child walking a country path in evening light. People, life and connection, which is what the owner asked for three times, and modest, ordinary and at a human distance. Cropped left of centre on purpose, so the pair sits in the part of the band the scrim leaves visible rather than behind the headline.
anxiety
Swans on a still lake at dawn. Calm water and something alive in it, rather than an empty landscape.
anger
A field under a wide open sky. Deliberately cool and wide: nothing hot, nothing red, nothing that reads as a statement about anger.
emotions
Raindrops on glass with green behind them. Rain after it has passed rather than a grey day, because a person in a low mood should not be met with a picture of their own weather.
focus
Free woman writing notebook work
Hands writing in a notebook beside a coffee. Ordinary life, a person doing the thing, and hands rather than a face.
body
A tree lined path in green light. A path is an opening, and this area is about moving and settling a body.
relationships
Two hands and two cups of coffee from above. Connection at its plainest, modest, and no faces at all.
self
A woman holding a mug by a window. Warm, ordinary, unposed, and not a stock serenity pose.
grief
single tree middle field sunrise
A single tree with light behind it in a misty field. Not cheerful and not bleak, which is the narrow band this slot has to sit in under rule 5.10.
trauma
Light falling through trees onto a path. Light arriving and a way through, and nothing that suggests confinement or threat.
Why these and not something generated
A picture that cannot be traced would be the one thing on this site you could not check. These can all be checked, in one click each, which is why they were chosen the slow way rather than made in a minute.
The geometric pattern behind the pages is not a photograph of anything. It is drawn in the stylesheet, from the Islamic geometric tradition, and it is ours.
Nothing here is decoration standing in for evidence. The evidence is on the pages themselves: how this is made sets out where every verse, report and study comes from.