Every image has a story. For my mom's last birthday, my brother asked my dad for any pictures he had of mom. My dad sent over a number of slides and the image above was one of the slides he sent. We scanned about sixty of them and then made a DVD and a Photo Book. I wondered what the story was around this image. So today, I sent the image to my mom and asked her about the image. This is what she told me:"It was taken in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Right after Dad came home from overseas. We had been married 6 months. It was June of 1955. Ford Hardtop maybe 1954. We were just in the park, celebrating his homecoming. He had stopped in Hawaii - therefore the flowers. He had the white coat made for me in Japan."
Tip: If you want to know more about an image, ask. Use open ended, general questions like "What do you remember about this picture?" If you ask open ended, general questions, you'll find out more than you expected.
Follow up general questions with specific questions like "When was this taken?" or "Where was this taken?" Use specific questions as follow up to general questions. Avoid questions that can be answered with a "Yes" or "No".
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