As an old news photographer . . .

Funny, I Googled the guy (Tess Flanders) who came up with the notion that "A picture is worth a thousand words," and couldn't come up with a picture of him. 

Anyway, the English language idiom refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single picture, this picture conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description does.

Take this now-famous image, for example:

Yes, a picture may, in fact, be worth a thousand, ten-thousand, ten-million words.  But, are they accurate?

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn