I wasn’t quite sure what kind of photo gallery or audio slide show would actually interest me. I was thinking if I found something with some cool graphics or perhaps James Earl Jones as the voice over it would be pretty cool. But I got to thinking what kind of topics might yield a cool photo gallery, and I thought about the Olympics and how I was glued to the television all of August watching them. I had seen a couple cool photos from it but I thought a whole gallery would be even better. During my search I found a bunch of fairly mediocre gallerie, but nothing I found worthy enough to share in class. In my google listings I came across a photo gallery for the Special Olympics. Having never watched the Special Olympics or really have never heard anything about them, it sparked my interest. Here it is:
http://studiostatesboro.statesboroherald.com/special_olympics/
I noticed that this slide show focused on the people that participated in the Special Olympics rather than the sports themselves. There was a lot of emotion captured in the photographs. There was a lot of celebration, determination, and disappointment. It revealed the true spirit of the Special Olympics and that this too is a competition just as the regular Olympics are, and it is something to take seriously and something that perhaps more people should pay attention to.