Clearly, there is much more to a thatch than its picture postcard image.
Perched on a hilltop and surrounded by mountain forests ablaze in autumn reds and yellows, Kaigenji is a picture postcard image of old Japan.
Guardsman Bhullar's colleagues and army traditionalists are said to be at odds over whether he should stand outside Buckingham Palace in a turban instead of a the bearskin, which has been worn since 1832 and provides a picture postcard image of Britain for tourists.
But with just three weeks to go until Sam Mendes and his crew arrive to shoot the 24th official 007 movie, campaigners are pointing out that the picture postcard image of the Eternal City differs wildly from the rubbish-strewn, graffiti-plagued reality of the Italian capital.
The app can also send a still-image postcard.
They begin as existing photographs — newsprint images, postcards, art reproductions and Mr. Orozco's own — that are translated into grids of dots by digitalization and greatly enlarged.
Before Tuesday they were tourists' favorite postcard image of the city and terrorists' favorite image of capitalism; now that image has acquired a terrible grandeur and is more famous than ever around the world.
She photographed bohemian society and the tea rooms and clubs that catered to it, often selling the images as postcards.
I feasted on smoked fish, marvelled at the panorama from the terrace, and turned in with images of postcard-pretty Devon in my head.
She stayed on after he left, Ms. Foley said, and became a pioneering female professional by selling her images for postcards and other uses.
The Khmer Rouge's repressions and exactions are depicted fearsomely, but many of Jolie's images are postcard-pretty, and their emotional range depends mainly upon the child actors' tremulous and steadfast expressions.
