At first I thought the hardest part about creating a photo essay using pictures online was going to be to figure out a topic. I figured that the internet is full of pictures and if I do not have to limit myself from where I take these pictures after a good topic came to mind finding the pictures would come easily. Unfortunately, I was wrong. While it did take me a little while to think of a topic, the hardest part was to find picture that could show my topic in a story manner. My idea was to demonstrate a story line about Indian removal, therefore, I quickly found multiple pictures of the Trail of Tears and then multiple pictures of the U.S. army attacking Native Americans after the Native Americans had moved west. The problem occurred in trying to find a beginning picture and a closing picture to this story. I wanted to begin with a picture of Native Americans living in peace in the East Coast, but while I found many pictures of Native Americans in peace none had specific labels of where and when these pictures were taken. Therefore, I settled with maps displaying where Indians lived before and after the Trial of Tears.
The second problem I found was mostly in using Google. When I tired to search “Indian villages” or “Cherokee Indians”, etc. an abundance of current photos appeared. For example, there were pictures of students holding projects they completed about Indians, monuments, casinos, people visiting reservations, pictures of local teams whose mascots are the Indians and other very current pictures that did not relate well enough to the story I wanted to portray through pictures. Then after I learned this I put a date into the search box, but it did not seem to help. It was as if Google just ignored the date and gave me the same results as the search without the date. Therefore, while the internet has a plethora of photos if you do not know where to look its hard to find what you are aiming for.
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