People get too hung up on good/great photos and so I see a lot of stock images being used. I think people also make the mistake of thinking the image has to exactly match the content of the post. I mean, if it's a post entitled MY trip to Paris, don't put photos of Australia on there, but the image doesn't always need to align perfectly with the text.

I'm more focused on using my own photos and will generally not vote on posts that use stock images, it shows zero character. But yes, I think images are good to use and they should be interesting...and not always fucken selfies which are not.

The garden is booming man, my vegetables, the flowers, fruit trees...it's legit. It's good to hear yours are too. (Just to show off a little...here's one of my cauliflowers of which I'm proud of.)

Edit: Sorry, forgot to say thanks for your compliments. I appreciate that.