I was most affected by the story of Carolyn and Rich St. Pierre and their struggle with her liver cancer.  I have never seen anything like this and thought that the multimedia platform it was shown on made it that much more meaningful, with the music and interviews intertwined with the pictures.  I was so emotional as I watched each section.  I was a little nervous before the ones that showed her death because of the warning given before saying it might be hard to handle for some viewers.  Although so many photographs are taken about every aspect in life, we don't see many of the actual death of a human being, yet the story would not have been complete without including those pictures.  I just keep thinking how it would feel to be Preston Gannaway, the photographer, in those scenes, taking those pictures--that is a time when a photographer certainly feels out of his element, yet I'm sure the family appreciates all the moments he has captured.  

Rich, Carolyn's husband, seems very aware of the power of a picture.  He often talks about all of the priceless and golden moments that they he and the kids had with Carolyn before she died. He was really worried about Elijah remembering his moms too and I bet these pictures are going to mean so much to him one day since he was so young when he died.  Nothing was more sad, though, than when Elijah was interviewed talking about his mom being dead and the way he described it.  

The photography captured all the emotion so well.  All the facial expressions, the shots in the bathroom and the ones showing just how much Rich struggled with Brian and Elijah are represented so well in the pictures  Carolyn's pale hands, the shots in the dark,  and and the photo sequence of Elijah getting so excited for his presents on Christmas were so real and made me feel almost like I was there.  This project truly shows the power of a picture and how a story can unfold with the combination of pictures over an extended period of time.