Finding Writing Inspiration in a Photograph
This summer I participated in a writing workshop held at our local library. The instructor offered several different ways to make a start on writing about our ancestors. One such method was to use a photograph as inspiration. For one sharing exercise, we were to bring a family photograph to the session. We were grouped with a few other participants, and were to ask our group members what they noticed about our photograph. It was really interesting to see what others commented on that I hadn't seen, and for them to begin to create a narrative about what the photograph might have meant, why it was taken, who the photographer was, etc. I chose to bring a photo that was shared with me by my cousin, which pictures of a group of people gathered around a car in an outdoor setting with trees in the background. When I first saw the photograph a few years ago, I could not determine who was in it, but then someone pointed out that the young fella sitting on the ground looked like my grandfa
