American Soldier

A.  I believe the most powerful image printed by the Denver Post was "Down and Dirty". The photograph was taken in his tent and it was of Fisher praying to God to take all of his pains and worries away.

B. These pictures all together tell a story by showing all the ups and downs Fisher had as he experienced his time as a soldier and what he went through at home with his family and in the military.

C. The captions enhance these photographs by helping the readers understand what is going on in the images and is adding a summary or story of whats going on in the image and the background information. 

D. Ian Fisher, a 17 years old, was a man who wished to join the military. After Ian was recruited he faced many physical and mental consequences for his actions from fellow soldiers, but his patriotism kept him going. Because of Ian's injured elbow he had repeat training and Ian needed to focus more on military or his dream of his fighting dream would be gone. After many challenges through life he fought for his country in Iraq, which his mother was very proud, and married his girlfriend Devin when he returned to his home.

E. If Ian was the main subject of a photograph the caption was usually in present tense.

F. Captions-
1. The captions averaged out to about 2 sentences for each photograph.
2. The first sentence of the captions are telling us what is going on in the photograph.
3. The second sentence is telling the background of the image.
4. The third sentence is telling us what occurred after the photograph was taken or maybe a quote.
5. Several of the cations include quotes.
6. Some of the photographs have 4 sentences for the cation.

G. I believe you can tell a story by only using photographs and cations because a picture is worth a thousand words by showing emotion and action while the caption tells background information needed to fully understanding the image.

H. If I were to create a story only using photographs and captions it would be about my years of school and education.