leading on from my notes

Ive been thinking upon what my lecturer said to my in our last tutorial about what is it about fears that i like! i managed to have abit of an idea from my random notings from my note book about what and why i like it, and what has made me fearful.

The main two times in my life i have been fearful of something has been september 11th and the world trade centers and the 7/7 bombings. in my reasearch before about the psycology of fears i read that its more common for people to be fearful of terrorism then ever before. In my notebook ive explained why these days where very close and hard hitting to me.
Since that day i have been to the site of the world trade centers, ground zero, as well as returning to london to the areas there that were bombed. both places really hit home and i felt an overwhelming fear and uneasyness as well as very emoitional.  I do have some of the photos i took in NY at ground zero which always hold alot of memorys with me and take me back to my visit and also to what i felt on that day. Ive also got a framed photo that i brought in america of the skyline of newyork without the twintowers, taken on the rememberance day with the two beams of light fired into the air once they once stood. Its a place that will forever be in my memory as a tragic and terrible place. Maybe i could also go back and photograph those areas in london that were hit and where i get that emotional response to the place?

Below are some of the images i took while visiting the site of ground zero. the smaller images are those that i dont really like the composition of but still i have an emotional responce just because of the devistation of the scenes. My fave photos are the larger images, The photo of the sign reading church street and the memorial that was added onto the sign after the day resides as my favourite, the composition, the meaning, even if it is a rather bright and simplistic image i feel it gets the meaning across. The other two were from the signs about the rejuvination of the site and all that they are going to do there, and the memorys people shared there. there was also a list of all the men and women who died in the world trade centers. I rather like the alst image just because the flag is behind the glass while the image of the man is a reflection of the american man who was standing behind me.  It is a very patriotic image even though its not clear from where it was taken.