Abbie Merker - Hit Me With Your Best Shot Assignment 

Photograph of a Person 



Context: This picture was used in last February's issue of the National Geographic magazine. It's an older picture that is now retired from the National Geographic website, so I couldn't identify the photographer.
Content: This photo shows modern-day Native American practicing his tribe's cultural traditions. The website gave the location as North America, I'm guessing around the Canada-American border.
Form: This photo caught my attention because it depicts a little piece of history still left in the world. As we all know, a few centuries back you could find people partaking in their own unique cultures all around the world without globalization or 21st century culture wiping out some things unique to that area. This photograph is so cool because it shows someone who still carries out his family's ancient traditions despite the modernizing world he lives in.

Photograph of a Place 



Context: This photo was taken by Clane Gessel on May 11th, 2017. He took this photo in Chile, and won an award for Travel Photographer of the year by National Geographic.
Content: This photograph depicts a marble cave that was found in South America (Chile). The cave floor is made up of Ice, and the walls are solid marble.
Form: This picture stood out to me because blue is my favorite color and the beautiful shades it has to offer caught my attention immediately, but also the patterns and textures you can see in the marble walls are very stunning. I also immediately wondered where the picture was taken when I saw it. I think the way the cave opening is not directly in the middle of the picture offers symmetrical value that makes the overall photograph more inriquing.

Wild Shot



Context: This picture was taken by Paul Kane (who works for Getty Images) in Lancelin, Australia. The photo was taken on January 31st, 2018.
Content: This picture shows the rare red moon that was visible from most parts of the world a couple of hours ago. The website listed photos taken of the big red moon all around the world. One picture was taken from NYC, and you could see a faint red moon behind the statue of liberty. However, the moon looked much more dramatic in other parts of the world.
Form: This picture was so interesting to me because it was hard for me to believe it was even real. At first when I saw it, I thought it was something out of the Nightmare Before Christmas and not an actual photo. I also like how you can see that the two people looking at the moon are also trying to take pictures of it- a perfect representation of our society.