but it's much more entertaining to imagine that they were sitting on your head when you took this
:D
It was a short lens. It is my wife - so she lets me :)
From a personal design point of view, being able to arbitrarily resize and place images around text would be amazing.
At least give some options in the interface to make it easier.
I understand the webdev view too - but it might be interesting to have a halfway point - a few templates to choose from.
It's technically not that hard to have a halfway point (assuming by "halfway point" you're meaning some post layout template type things or at least means of juggling text and images in interesting ways), it's just more code to maintain and more things to break if they have to change or refactor something down the line XD