My Favorite Cover

Photographer: John Tlumacki
"At approximately 3:10 on the afternoon of April 15, 2013, the editors of Sports Illustrated returned from their Monday meeting to rumors of a terrorist act near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. With fewer than four hours until Si's weekly deadline, producing a definitive news account of what happened was impossible. Was there, however, an image that captured the afternoon's chaos, its tragedy, in addition to a city's capacity for resilience and goodness in the face of such terror? Yes, there was, dozens of images, in fact. By 4:30 p.m., half an hour ahead of the magazine's usual cover deadline, (Read More)

I believe that this picture shows emotion and it makes me want to know more about what was happening. One thing that I would maybe change would be where the title of the magazine is because it's really hard to see what the second word is and I would put the page numbers so that the reader could find the story. This is a very good picture though, it grabs the readers attention and as I said makes them want to read the article. There isn't much I would change at all, it does what a good picture should. You can tell the Police officers are engaged and are already going into action, you can tell the runner is in shock, and I believe I may see smoke in the background as if something were on fire. The lighting in the picture is perfect theres not too much light theres just enough.