My group has decided so far to study the problem of traffic in Austin. One of the ways that my linked course (photography) could help with that is by taking pictures during certain times of the day or certain days of the week to show the current traffic patters throughout Austin. The photography class focuses on the power of photography, meaning that it could be a great source of intel or a bad one. One of the issues with photography is that it only captures a small portion of what the eye sees, but it’s very convincing. This means that someone could take a picture of 1-35 on a Friday afternoon and it looks completely clear, but right outside the line of the shot, there could be a pile-up of cars preventing traffic from getting through. With a catchy headline stating that traffic isn’t as bad as people think, many would believe that the traffic levels are actually a lot less than what others claim, but in reality, they can’t see what happened right outside the frame of the shot. While it seems that photography is solid proof of an incident, there is always something outside the frame of the photo that isn’t visible to the public, and that could create a biased view of reality that could effect how people view Austin.