"captivating image" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you wish to communicate that an image that you are referring to is very desirable and attractive. For example: "The artist featured a captivating image of a beautiful sunset in his painting."
His polio-stricken father, Harlan, cried as he watched the son he raised on his own pitch for the Yankees in Kansas City; it was an enduring and captivating image from that season.
BN: I think the LA bands, more so than any other scene, combined heavy metal music with catchy melodies and a very glamorous and captivating image with an over-the-top stage show.
Marcus certainly appreciates Morrison's lyricism but offers minimal interpretation ("a captivating image").
In celebration of its 24th year in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has brought us a captivating image of a stellar nursery with baby stars just beginning their lives.
Set in the murky underworld of Bangkok Only God Forgives, like Drive, is another gorgeously shot film that displays Refn's meticulous eye for a captivating image.
"I work on the premise that a single captivating image can be enough to make an otherwise inaccessible and dense topic exciting.
They are captivating images of being held captive.Mr Shore finds that teaching improves his own work because he exercises his creative faculties when he strains to see through his students' eyes.
@mumbaipaused is a feed full of human stories and captivating images from the Indian metropolis.
Photographs of the centennial events are among the show's most captivating images.
The music, by the young big-band leader Darcy James Argue and his eighteen-piece orchestra, Secret Society, is appropriately rousing, and there are captivating images by the visual artist Danijel Zezelj.
Georgia Hardinge, a womenswear designer who made her debut in 2009, has joined forces with River Island as part of the latter's Design Forum initiative to showcase her spring/summer 2013 collection in a way that utilises the power of the web to share captivating images in an instant.
