Building a file photo legacy

In late July when I covered Montgomery County’s District Attorney announcing charges in connection with two assaults in a Cheltenham High School football locker room, I knew the story was something we would be writing about for some time.Aware that we used the same photo, taken in 2018, with stories about the high school hazing leading up to the indictments, I left from the DA’s office across the street from the Courthouse in Norristown and drove to the school in Wyncote to take “fresh” ones.I wrote last week about the web’s appetite for photos. But there’s another kind of photo: the thumbnails that are attached to every story, whether or not they are “live” photos.Most of those little horizontal photos — none are verticals — of flashing police lights or yellow tape; headshots of politicia