Reading Response Chapter 10

While reading chapter 10 of Sturken and Cartwright's Practices of Looking, I found the section on satellites bringing us a totally different perspective on weather in regards to objectivity and subjectivity quite interesting.  These perspectives on looking are sometimes challenging to differentiate sometimes, but I see the point being made.  Weather patterns always seem a little less ambiguous when we are informed about them, and with today's satellite technology it is all made so much easier.  On page 394 the authors make a interesting point: "...the aerial satellite perspective also affords us a stronger sense of the subjective experience of living down inside the conditions we observe from above", which got me thinking; I don't usually watch the news or view satellite images when storms roll around, unless it is said to be a particularly dangerous storm.  Otherwise, I just enjoy the rain and the experience as per usual.  Maybe it's because I am not a news buff, but I find the weather imagery uninteresting unless it is near me, and when it is I don't feel like my perspective is changed much by the above view they speak of, but that's just me.  I still feel like I view storms from "below" as opposed to "above".  Sure, I know what they look like from above in general, but each one is wild and different, and I feel minuscule and awed in comparison. I thought these were interesting things to think about.