HW Flickr Pictures

I chose the Flickr pictures that cover a St. Patrick’s Day parade http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmiers2/111693966/in/photostream/. This Flickr page tells a story of a community coming together to celebrate the Irish holiday. It didn’t matter if someone wasn’t Irish, or 100 percent Irish, it is a day when people get together to enjoy the weather and drink a couple of beers. I thought that this Flickr helped tell a story of an event because the photographer took pictures of the parade, which was the event and he took them of the progression of the parade. If the photographer had just taken pictures of the people he was sitting with, such as his friends or family then it wouldn’t be telling the story of an event. However, because the photographer took pictures of the actual progression of the parade then he is telling the story of the parade through his photographs. He also took pictures of the people watching the parade because they were a part of the story and the event. I think that the strengths of this Flickr story are that he took a wide range of pictures, and was able to capture the faces and expression of the people watching the parade and the people in the parade. However, I think that the weakness of his photography was that he seemed to stay in one place during his picture taking. The story telling would have been more effective if he had moved around the parade and captured different moments of the parade in different areas. I also think that the limited amount of pictures that he chose to take was also a negative part of his story telling.