The 5-Panel Story

My Digital Photography teacher gave us the assignment to creat a 3-to-5 panel photo story. IT was to include some sort of text as well. Ideas evaded me for avery long time and Finally I came up with the idea of the christmas light story below.

The story's all in the pictures with the history-oriented text there to meet the text requirement. I got a 17 out of 20 on the assignment. He liked the idea generally but said panels 2 and 3 duplicated each other and panel 5 didn't "fit" the story and didn't carry the idea of the frustration with the lights that the other panels had. I like the resolution, personally. The idea of simplifying and leaving the commercialism of Christmas behind is appealing to me.