How easy it is to find good reference pictures of archery in Google?

After searching for archery pictures from Baidu in the last post, I got thinking that surely it must be easier to find good reference photos from Google, right?

So I of course did the search.

First with "archer". But because of the popularity of the comedic series of the same name (should I watch it by the way, some say it's hilarious?), sadly finding any real archer pictures turns out impossible. Even with excluding words such as "series" and "episode" in the same Google search (You did know you can do it? Just put a minus sign before a word you want to exclude from search results, really helpful sometimes!).

Secondly with "archery". That turned out only modern Olympic archery photos, as expected.

Third time with "medieval archer". That search gave some good illustrations. Obviously not many photographs. Even a period source (medieval artwork) in the front page, which is good. But the first two results are quite bad and the quality changes significantly from picture to picture.

Next I tested with "historical archer", which yielded better results. Some historical photos of archers from Manchuria and Mongolia turned out, which are good reference for Eastern archery. Only one photo of a medieval longbowman reenactor. And our friend Lars Andersen in the second picture of the page! Unfortunately his bow there isn't very historical.

After that, a search with "bowman", which was a disappointment. Mainly random pictures of people with Bowman as their surname, as well as some pictures of Bard the Bowman from the Hobbit film trilogy. Other bowmen were from games, comics, and movies too.

Finally "longbowman" game some better results if one wants to draw aEuropean medieval archer. Longbows were pretty common in Europe in the middle ages, but of course other types of bows were used also. Use of the longbows also certainly didn't restrict to England or Wales, but they were used all Europe, and even the World. Results were varied also in this last search, with some inaccurate game pictures muddying the waters.

Turns out it wasn't so easy to find a good reference picture, preferably a photo, of a traditional (read = medieval European) archer using Google after all. Maybe reenactors should put much more pictures up there to give better picture search results. For the betterment of depiction of archery in public imagination as well as popular culture!