This picture holds significance for me due to the background provided about it on the BBC website. It explained that these tractors were clogging up the road in protest over falling agricultural prices. Although the picture was somewhat striking and decidedly intriguing all on its own, it is the background information that establishes its true purpose and message during a period of economic turmoil. In America, we tend to focus on only our own economic situation, but from this picture, I could easily see frustration that has become paramount to French farmers as well.