Word verification or photo verification?

I was reading a blog and I wanted to leave a comment. At the bottom of the comment form, there was a word verification field to prove that I wasn't a spam bot.

Er... What is that on the left?? How do we type it out?

I thought it was a strange photo that had somehow made its way into the word-image files...but the next few photos were the same! It was always a combination of a "normal" word and a photo of some object with some kind of symbol on it. (usually there are two word-images)

Then finally I got this one:

At last, something I can actually read! lol

So that's what the photos are supposed to be... Well, good luck with the first one, though. :P