American Soldier.

What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
I think the picture that moved me the most was the one where his mother is crying when he is leaving. Because that kind of set it in stone that he's leaving and fighting for the country.

What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
Chapter 4: First Assignment, because it really showed the struggle of his journey and how he changed from a not committed soldier, to one that was ready and willing.

How do the images work together to tell a story?
This images work together to tell a story by capturing his journey of being a boy in high school, to the struggles he faced with addiction, the hard times he had with his girls, and him becoming a man and fighting and being responsible.

For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?
The photos where Ian is the main subject, the verbs of the captions are usually written in present tense.

Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.
1. (Basic Training, Second row; 1st picture)
Ian and his fellow soldiers scope the territory by leading gun first and taking in their surroundings on a training mission at Fort Carson.

2. (First Assignment, First row; last picture)
Ian and Pvt. Johnson clean the bathrooms as punishment before deployment in their training base. Earlier Ian and Pvt. Johnson were caught messing around during a training mission and had to clean as a punishment for not being on task.


3. (Life in Iraq, First row, last picture)
Ian, Pvt. Johnson, and Pvt. Rash are taking a test on their basic army knowledge to receive a higher rank after being in Iraq for a few months. Ian was getting frustrated because the written exam isn't his strongest point and he seems to be having some trouble. 


How do these other features enhance the photographs?
These other features enhanced the photographs by giving a more in-depth view of the photograph, and explaining more what was going on.

In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Website.
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/videochapter2.html (First Day, Second Thoughts) This was better than the photographs, because the pictures couldn't really tell us thoughts unlike here.

In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/photochapter5.html (Army Blues; 2nd row, 2nd picture) I think in this way the pictures were better, because it was able to capture expressions and emotions in situations where he couldn't just drop everything and tell us how he felt and what was going on.