America 24/7

This week in English we discussed representing reality through pictures. We read an article called America 24/7: A Family Photograph by Patrick Cox. The article is about people taking pictures for one week in May of 2003 and how those pictures represent our country. Our assignment was to think of what these pictures will be of before we go on to the acutal website and view the pictures. I think that the pictures will contain photos of families, people working, children playing, children in school and things that represent America such as the American flag and the Statue of Liberty. After looking at the images there were some pictures that I wasn't expecting to see a lot of such as all of the wild animals and pictures of farms. When I think of America I think of a bald eagle and there were a few pictures of bald eagles but I wasn't expecting all of the other pictures of the animals. There were also a lot of pictures of nature and the many different places to visit around the U.S. such as waterfalls and mountains covered in snow. I think that America can be represented through so many pictures that even though there were a lot on the website there are still so many more that could have been used.