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1. What feeling does this photograph create in you, the viewer?
2. What story do you think this photograph tells the viewer? Does it capture something that would be hard to convey in words?
3. Who or what is the subject of this photograph?
4. Is the lighting natural or artificial? What time of day is it?
5. What colors stand out?
6. What part or parts are out of focus, if any?
7. What is the distance between the subject and the camera/viewer? What is the effect of this?
8. How is the picture composed? Is the subject centered? Is the "rule of thirds" followed?
9. How personal/impersonal is this photo? What elements make it this way?
10. What strikes you most about the photo? Why do you think that is?
11. What is the background for this image?
12. Why do you think this photograph was taken?
13. Does this qualify as photojournalism? As commercial, casual or art photography, or some other category? Why?
14. Is the photo timely? Does it have a timeless quality? Both? Might it become iconic? Why or why not?
15. What else do you notice about the photograph?