Hurricane Katrina is a horrible event that took place in America. I remember when it happened but I really didn't know how bad the devestation was. When Thomas Neff began showing his photograhs and speaking about how people were living I was shocked. I never really thought that it was that horrible in New Orleans. I can't believe how some people were living. I thought his photographs really captured the feeling of the people who stayed behind. My favorite photograph is the one above.

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I wish I could go on and on about how the photographer's (who's name I forget, and I am truly apologetic) captured moments of the aftermath of Hurricaine Katrina truly affected me, but I cannot. I liked what he did--going into New Orleans and speaking with and capturing the actual victims still trying to survive the aftermath. He went to people's homes and found people who were literally confined to the upper levels of their house because the bottom floors were flooded. He talked to them, and learned their stories.

 When Dr. Bergman first told us about Camera Lucida, I was terrified. She told us she had read the book in graduate school and distinctly remembered having thrown it across the room in anger and frustration. I thought to myself, if this brilliant woman could not get through this book in graduate school, then how in the world am I? I was apprehensive, but once I actually started to read this book, I was a little relieved. After a few pages, not so much, but it wasn't as bad as I expected.