After I finally decided that I wanted my photo essay to be about Global Warming, I figured that the easiest way to find pictures on the subject would be to use the Google images function. The process was fairly easy, but did require a minimum amount of effort. This included searching through all the hits and picking pictures I felt best represented the issue without being over dramatic.
Google’s image search function is especially helpful, because it does not just pop up with a bunch of random pictures. Whenever you click on an image Google takes you to the site from which the image was found during the search. Which is particularly helpful for the purpose of extending credit towards those sites, when using their pictures.
Another factor as to why I had such an easy time finding images related to Global Warming is the fact that it has become a focus of national attention ever since the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. There have been numerous news articles since then which contain empirical evidence in support of the phenomena, as well as numerous on-site photographs of the effects of climate change. These photographs are mainly images of glaciers melting, because that is the most direct sign of Global Warming. Other signals are the numerous dangerous tropical storms and hurricanes, which are caused by warm fronts coming off of different oceans. It is more difficult to link Global Warming and hurricanes, so for the most part their images do not evoke the same reaction from the public as melting glaciers.
All in all, this assignment was fairly easy, mostly because the topic I chose is fairly prominent in the mainstream right now, which makes viable photographs easy to locate.
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