Photo Story Comments

Paying Tribute to Fallen Miners is a photo story that I find interesting; since, in my geology class I am learning how this nation gets it resources. We get them from oil, gas, and Uranium; all of these natural resources are attained by men that risk their lives everyday. This photo story portrays a recent incident that occurred in the United States, where honest and diligent citizens lost their lives. Thus, the topic for this photo story is very important. For that same reason President Obama is on 6 of the 8 images that appear on this photo story. In addition, local leaders of the mining community appear praying for the fallen miners and Gov. Joe Manchin III from West Virginia is also present in one of the pictures. These, influential and important leaders give this photo story more ethos or credibility. Because, such important people only meet for extremely important issues. Nonetheless, I think that President Obama being in so many pictures makes the photo story very redundant. Those pictures in excess could be replace with some more tragic events to increase the pathos to eventually provoke a feeling of pity or sadness. The attention getter was not effective because a man with a T-shirt that has a picture comes out. I think that something like a helmet or a fallen pick would’ve been better and more related to the topic. The attention getter and including more provocative pictures with relevance will improve this photo story.