&gt; I work on an open team with quite a few women and other folks who would immediately react negatively [...]<p>No you don&#x27;t.  You&#x27;re just an attention whore.  Or you probably do not interact that much with people, or else you&#x27;d know nobody sane would react negatively to some nine headshots of a person.  Stop tumultising stupid things.<p>And Lenna is a good image for testing for various purposes, and it is a nice, beautiful image to see when doing a boring thing like learning an image processing software.  And it contains some nice colour work.