“Pineapples belong on pineapples.”
Image by Claire

“We’re on top of the world!”
Image by Claire

“We’re different flowers from the same garden.”
Image by Allison

The theme of the images is family. All three images are from Claire and me. The images show one of us in with our sibling. We wanted to use pictures of ourselves to demonstrate the theme of family. It allowed us to have more of a personal connection with the images. Originally, I was going to put an image similar to the first one but of me and my sister Andrea. However, the image couldn’t be found so I decided to put another picture of me and my sister.

Claire and her brother Charles are in the first and second images. The first picture shows Claire when she was younger. The caption reads “Pineapples belong on pineapples.” This caption was given because Claire and Charles were both dressed up as pineapples and Claire was holding Charles. Claire was inspired by a WSC debate topic of how pineapple should or shouldn’t be on pizza. In the second picture, Claire and Charles were standing and sitting on a rock. The picture was taken from a lower angle that makes them look like they are on top of the world. Therefore, Claire captioned the image as “We’re on top of the world!”

My sister and I are in the third image. This picture was taken in front of a garden-like place. I chose this picture to be as one of the images because I find my sister’s expression really funny. I captioned the image “We’re different flowers from the same garden,” because our expressions were different and our personalities are quite different also. However, we are still from the same family and the caption shows how we are different and the same simultaneously.

I learned that writing captions aren’t as easy as one would think. The caption would have to be related to the image while maybe having a fun twist or a sub-message. Claire and I wanted to make the captions fun and related to the image at the same time. It took quite a while for us to finally decide on which captions we liked best. Our inspirations were mostly from idioms because they can convey literal and subliminal messages.