For my blog post today, I am reflecting on one of this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, Patrick Farrrell, who won in the category of Breaking News photography. He took these pictures of victims of hurricane Ike, which struck the poor country of Haiti in the fall. Here are several pictures. They are horrifying and realistic. Look at them for as long as you can and then reflect on if you would have been able to take the picture of someone like that. I'm not even going to tell you what they are about right now.

These photos are about ordinary people in Haiti after the hurricane. Do you think that you could have taken pictures of such misery, hurt, and pain? I know that I could not take those pictures. The top one is of a four year old girl who weighs only sixteen pounds. The second is of pregnant women in labor waiting to get into a clinic, with family watching through the gates. The third is of a woman getting up before labor pains subside, so that another woman can have her bed to give birth. The fourth is of a man holding a young injured girl. The fifth displays children laid out on the ground after they died during the hurricane. The sixth is of a young boy pushing a stroller in an attempt to salvage it. the final one is of an adult holding their dead child.

I comment the photographer, Patrick Farrell for being able to take these pictures and declare him deserving of the Pulitzer Prize.