Apologies for the ancient crone - you're right. Was in between radio interviews about local and not thinking properly. I also hadn't (haven't) looked at the piece and was really responding to the comments. (Quite a few journalists find it difficult to read their stuff for a week or two after it's been published and I'm one of them. Sounds precious, I know, but there you go).
When we first started Gransnet one of the strongest messages we got was "don't put pictures of old people/women all over the site." This seemed a shame to me and still does - although I know exactly where it's coming from and also agree with it in many ways - we want to be seen as dynamic and interesting and attractive (though ideally in a broad sense, rather than for looking 20 years younger).
The problem, I suspect, is that older women are usually photographed to make a point about vulnerability and pathos. There are a few exceptions - the work of Ari Seth Cohen photographing dramatically-dressed old women in New York and Karsten Thormaelen's portraits, which make people look fascinating, beautiful and unequivocally old - but you'd be amazed how hard it is to find these positive images.
The most upbeat images of older people are actually of older people passing themselves off as young, which is not the same thing and which as people have pointed out above, only compounds the problem really.
Sorry - know the thread had moved on.
Didn't mean to write an essay...
Maybe you should all send in your pictures to us for use on the site...