One photo to tell a story...

The last day of class we had a guest speaker from the Naples news press and he showed us some videos pertaining to some of the things we had worked on in class with the audio slideshow. And so instead of paying so much focus to the article, I looked at the one photo they used to go with the story. Our guest speaker talked about how it can take several months to get pictures for a story and and long it can take to write a good story. The article was about a woman who used to be a drug addict, but while being pregnant with her third child, she decided to change her ways and try to kick her habit with an outpatient progam. The picture was only from above the bust and up and she was dressed very professional. In the picture it seems she is in mid-sentence as if telling her story and she does not look like she was a crack addict. I thought it was really interesting how that one picture captured the idea of the whole story. But, it also made me think of how hard this decision can be if you can only use one picture. Whether it took the editor or writer a long time to choose which photo or not, it was nice to kind of see past what is in front of me and realize how much work can go into these stories.