Athabasca Glacier Photograph Analysis

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The photograph example on page 417 at the beginning of Part 3 depicts the receding Athabasca Glacier in Alberta, Canada, in the Canadian Rockies. This photography uses elements of angle and orientation, people in scenes, and distance in order to convey the rising problem of global warning. The distant photo is divided into three horizontal bands- the blue sky, the snowy moutains, and the dirt road- but the focal point is the sign that reads, in two different languages English and French, "The Glacier was here in 1982." The visual impact of the picture being divided into three different horizontal band is to make clear of the contrast that now face Athabasca Glacier. The blue sky and snowy mountains are a clear contrast to the dirt road that

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