Draft:
To me, this image symbolizes the coronavirus and its scare on people. This is a good picture that shows quarantine and how it is supposed to be. It also reminded me of a zombie movie, because in the movies the streets and parking lots and just outside, in general, are desolated and gives a very horrid feeling. I get the feeling of emptiness and social restraint when I look at this picture because the parking lot at a supermarket is completely empty and there is fog; the fog amplifies the effect of the “danger” of being outside at this time in history.
Revision:
I see an empty steel shopping cart in an empty parking lot. The paint that is used to put the lines in the lot is white. There is so much fog that the lights in the parking lot look like they are far away but you can tell they are close because there is one that is close to the cart. The fog is so hazy that the light from the lamps is getting blurred and distorted. This scene looks very scary to me. It makes me feel that something bad has been happening to the area and in the area and the weather is always like this. Now that I’ve read the title of the picture, I think this might represent some effects of climate change and how climate change will make the future dark like this.
Reflection:
I decided to actually include some visual descriptions to make it imaginable. The lights and the fog really speak to me so I gave that more than one sentence. And honestly, I still don’t get the point of the picture.




Great work, Raj. Your revision incorporates far more sensory description and concrete detail—which was exactly what I was hoping for! I think if you were writing about this for your essay, you could still make the COVID-19 claim—a smart move, I think! But you’d want to explain your reasoning and that it was certainly not the original intention of the photo. Still, images speak beyond their intentions, as we’ve discussed. Great work!