To be entirely honest, I’m not really much of a photographer at all. I don’t just mean I’m not skilled at photography in an artistic way, I mean I just flat out don’t take many pictures. I have, however, noticed how much the internet has changed the way people take pictures. As was said in the Photo 2.0 article, the internet has brought photographers and the public closer together, and has allowed scores of photographers to share their work even without publishers. In fact, most of the photographs I personally see are on the internet.

The third article was interesting, because, while I’d definitely noticed that photos could tell a story, I’d never really thought about it in the same way I thought of written stories. The article brings up the important aspects of visual stories, like characters, conflict, and context, and I noticed that these are very similar to the things that are important to written stories. It’s a way to look at photographs that I hadn’t really considered before.

While the third article dealt with how to tell a good story using a photograph, the first article was also about to tell a story well. The third dealt with the narrative of the photo and what to tell, while the first also talked about how to tell it. I’ll definitely take its suggestions into account whenever I take photos in the future, even if I’m not sure how often that’ll be.