This is the business English podcast episode 410 photo image picture.
What's the difference?
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Hey, Michelle, I'm doing great.
How's everything in your world today?
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Hey Lindsay, how do you choose the images for the All Ears English website?
Oh my God, good question.
Well, geez, we have had some of those on for a while.
Some of them come from our live events.
You know, beautiful pictures of us with our listeners enjoying adventures, learning English in the cities.
Yeah, action -oriented photos Michelle.
Action -oriented. Okay, perfect.
So, Lindsay today we're gonna answer or a great, really direct listener question.
You want to read it for us?
Yes. Okay, here's a listener question from Asad Deblis, and he says, please talk about the difference between photo, image, and picture.
Now this is a high level of nuanced question, Michelle.
Isn't it? Very. Oh, very.
Yeah. This is a good one, and this is, I wanted to do this on business English because maybe our students are involved in graphics, And you know, often for a presentation, you might need to use something.
So it's really good to talk about this here today.
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So again, great question.
Good for business, also good for life, but good for business, especially if you work with graphics or you're making visual decisions or presentations, which honestly things are so visual these days.
We're all making these decisions, aren't we, Michelle?
Yeah. Oh yeah for sure, I mean, so, okay, photo, image, and picture, are these similar would you say or is it just really easy?
Yeah. One, two, three, that's it.
Yeah, when I think about it right away as a native speaker, absolutely, they're very similar, right?
They're very similar.
It's hard to even think about what the difference is, but we will answer this question today for our listener.
Right? Right, exactly.
So let's go into it.
Let's start with photo.
So photo is short for photograph.
Yeah. Um, yeah. And this is something that was taken with a camera nowadays, likely a phone camera.
Someone actually took the picture generally.
Right. So I was looking through old photos of our conferences.
My hair used to be hilarious.
I'm sure a lot of us feel that way.
Or if your parents have old photos of you on the wall from when you were ten.
Maybe you had braces or something.
And it can be a little embarrassing if you bring a partner home, right?
To meet your family.
Of course. Of course.
Of course. So photograph is really basic.
Oh, let's take a look at those photos.
I, you know, I have a box of old photos.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. For sure, okay, so I would say photo is probably one of, well, it's one of the more commonly used ones.
I think picture is commonly used too, Michele.
But photo is used very often, right?
Photograph a little less often, okay?
Then we have image, so what is the difference with image?
Yeah, so it's some sort of visual.
So it can be a photo, it can be a graphic, it's a little more general.
So let's take a look at the images and see what we wanna put on the PowerPoint.
So it could be a lot of different things, right?
A lot of things. It's important that you said that it could be a graphic, it could be a cartoon image, right?
And that wouldn't be a photo.
Sometimes you see like, cartoon drawings.
Those are not photos, right?
Cause they're not actually taken of actual reality, right?
they're just created, so it's more broad exactly.
Yeah, it's more broad, but yeah I wouldn't say like, on the other hand, if you had, want to show me photos from your vacation, I wouldn't say, oh look at those images, right?
It's a little too formal to say that, I think, you know?
However, if you've taken pictures and you're putting them on a presentation, you could say, oh let's insert some images.
So how does it make it an image once you move to a presentation?
Good question. Does it make it more professional all of a sudden or it puts it into another category?
Right. I think if you're going to select it on a file or something right, to me, a photo makes me think of actually we're looking at photographs, a photo from in a photo album, whereas the image oh we're going to add some we're going to add some images to this website.
Yeah. Yeah. What the photographer took at our last shoot.
Right. And an image Which I guess could also be an icon potentially, not to add another thing here.
But icon probably falls under the category of image, definitely not really picture and not photo and icon, just a little, you know, we have the little things that maybe little emojis even.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or for social media, right?
Like to - For sure. Yeah, Instagram image, whatever it is.
So when you're selecting them for a presentation, they become kind of an image along with the icons and the other things you can do.
That's what I think, right?
Yeah, that to me makes the most sense.
So then let's do Picture now.
So the Picture, wow, this could be a photo.
It could be a drawing, right?
So I think of something, maybe it's in a frame.
This is a very versatile one.
So if you say, for example, we should put some pictures on the wall to spruce this place up a bit.
It's too sterile in here to be a pediatrician's office.
yeah and of course you could also say you could also be saying we should put some photos but that's a little more specific right you could put a picture and it could also be a photo right there's a picture on the wall in the office in the dentist's office but it's also a photograph maybe of your family or something right right or it could be a picture your son drew that you want to show everybody that's the one it's not really it's not really going to be an image you wouldn't say let's put some images on the wall.
Right. That feels too sterile.
It also feels weird. Let's put some images on the wall.
But I think about, you know, kids will draw pictures for their parents, right.
I mean, I did that as a kid, like your mom.
I drew a picture. Right.
So that's not just a photo.
It's a physical drawing.
Right. They go on the fridge.
They exactly I mean to me photo is the most...
this is a photograph right yeah this is most specific.
It's just a photograph to me the other two there's a little bit more oh it could be this it could be that.
You're right because at the beginning I said there I think I said it's the most general but actually I take that back.
I take it back! I think you're right I think photo is the most specific the most rigid right yeah it's a photograph it's either a photograph of nature of people of real life right?
Right. Yeah. Yes. Exactly which actually that really that reminds me of traveling.
I really want to go on vacation.
I know Michelle have you ever traveled abroad and felt like you needed a good internet connection as a key moment maybe to send photos home, because traveling is all about photos right?
Definitely, and I take a lot of photos.
So yeah, I mean so I actually I remember when I traveled to India, we were on a driving tour and I was taking all these great pictures and but, we were in a remote area.
We were on, I think we were on the way to Jaipur and I wanted to take, send these pictures in real time to my family.
I was so excited but, I couldn't because, you know the only wi -fi was at the hotel.
I didn't have wi -fi on my phone.
Oh my gosh! When was this?
How long ago was this?
Oh my gosh, that was nine years ago.
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Perfect. All right, Michelle, let's get back to talking about these terms. What else do we need to know about photographs and photos?
Well, we're kind of going to review them, review this quickly, and then we're gonna ask each other some questions and then do a role play.
So again, photo in albums, on your ID card, a company website, you might see a photo.
Somebody took it with a camera.
Lindsay, what about image?
Yes, image would be, as we said before, graphs, charts, even maybe icons that you add to a presentation, or it could also be a photo, as we said earlier in the episode.
When you go to upload something, It becomes kind of a more broad category of an image.
OK. Right. And then there's picture and that, you know, you might be in a frame on the wall.
Somebody may have drawn the picture.
It might be a picture in a book, your picture book.
Right. Yes. It could be photos.
And sometimes people say pics, pics or send me a pic.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Let me pick. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, how often do you look through old photos?
I do pretty often especially when something triggers The desire to do that So for example, I had dinner with a friend two friends that I had known when I lived in Japan 20 years ago I met them last week in LA for dinner and I hadn't seen them in 20 years and we were talking about all of our mutual friends and our experiences and that night I went home and I just went through all my Japan photos and just it thought through and it rushes all leave memories back of where you were then how you've changed it's just yeah incredibly powerful yeah incredible yeah it is and Lindsey do you have any pictures
on your walls like do you have art up or what yeah I am looking around my office here I have a few things up sometimes I will be lazy and I'll say when I move into a new place I'll say I'm gonna fill that white wall there should never be a white wall and then two years passes and nothing's there What about you?
It's hard to decide.
Do you have pictures on your walls at home?
I'm curious. Not really yet.
Because we're still just really moving in and figuring out what we want to do.
But we do have some, we did put on – we have a fireplace on the mantle.
We put a couple – and then Dan put some up just on the dresser in our room just so there's something.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we really need to get on that.
I love that. But yeah, so should we do a role play?
Let's jump to a role play Michelle.
So here we are working together on a PowerPoint for a work presentation, which is a situation I think our listeners find themselves in a lot right?
Working together on a presentation.
So, yep, here we go.
Okay, so now let's talk images.
So what should we use?
Hmm, we could add in some photos from last year's conference.
Oh, great idea. I can put some pictures in from that.
Nice, short and sweet, right?
Short and sweet. I think as a bonus, let's talk images.
Let's talk images. I know, I know.
I think we might have followed. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
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So yeah, so what are you saying here?
Let's talk images. Let's talk about images.
But this is just kind of casual and conversational.
So we're talking about okay, the images that we are going to put on the PowerPoint.
So again, these could be graphs.
They could be anything that we're gonna click a button on that we're gonna insert and then adjust it in the PowerPoint.
I love that. And then you said, hmm, we could add in some photos from last year's conference.
Now we're going to that specific term of photo photograph.
Now you're talking about, you know, you snapped photos of actual, probably people at the conference.
Maybe you took a picture of the slides at the presentation, but that would make a very boring presentation.
Yeah, yeah. It's probably the people maybe there was a group get together, whatever it was, people making presentations.
Yeah, exactly. And then what did I say, Michelle?
Then you said, Oh great idea, I can put some pictures in from that.
So you could have said photos, but really here it just means the same thing in the way that you can use pictures or photos.
Yes, I love it. OK, so Michelle, is there another episode our listeners could check out to keep their listening, their learning and listening going?
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All right. Good stuff.
Michelle, what is our final takeaway, photos, images, pictures?
No, in some ways it's really easy to tell the difference, right?
So a photo, somebody took it, right?
That's, we got that, right?
images, it can get a little bit tricky because some of them can mean the same things as another one, but it really depends on the context.
So I would say the easiest thing for you to remember is photo.
Somebody took it with a camera with their phone image is something you might add into a presentation.
It could be a photo.
It might not be, it might be a chart.
It might be an icon, as Lindsey said, and picture frame on the wall.
Somebody drew it, but could also be a photo.
Amazing. I love it.
I'm glad that our listener is asking this question that is the key This is an incredibly detailed specific high -level question So keep sending in your questions Send them to support at allers English comm and we would love to answer your specific question All right, Michelle good times on the microphone as always and I'll see you next time.
All right. Thanks. We have a great day Take care.
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