If you could combine two interests, what would they be?

The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
--Kenneth Grahame, from The Wind in the Willows

Teaching and visual art, espcially photography.
I've been wanting to use my photographs as writing prompt choices for some time now and am just sliding into getting that together. My students seem to like looking at my photographs and I think they'll come up with compelling, vivid written responses to them.
Looks like I might be teaching eighth grade reading next year, though, as opposed to writing and grammar, which is what I teach now. a good shift for me, though I wouldn't be teaching  'gifted/advanced' students anymore. that whole tag has come to have less and less meaning for me, though, and I've always wanted to teach reading. (Ideally, of course, reading and writing should be taught in a workshop, together with each other as fully as possible, but for some reason in the county where I teach, that's not how it's set up. I hope to bring writing into my reading classroom, if I have one, in ways that are fresh and vigorous.)
so, how can I perhaps find a way to bring my photography into all of this? I love using images in my writing instruction and have found a variety of ways to do that.. sometimes my students find the images and other times I supply them. I have a poster of El Greco's painting View Of Toledo that a teacher I once worked with gave me, and students always have especially imaginative responses to the dark glowering skies and the pointy spires of the Spanish city. I once had my advanced students bring in favorite picture books from their childhoods and they wrote bibliotherapy lessons for younger students. they brought in the work of Maurice Sendak, Chris VanAllsburg, Jane Yolen, Mercer Mayer, Peter Parnall, Byrd Baylor, David Macaulay's intricate and wonderful The Way Things Work books, the obligatory Dr. Seuss, and a beautiful illustrated version of The Wind in the Willows, among others. I was happy at how quickly students seemed to reconnect with the picture books, and I've been looking at a couple of books tonight on teaching reading and writing using picture books to scaffold instruction. There's a whole bunch of very weighty theory out there about image and language and the dialectics of the two, how they oppose each other and support each other. I've read some of it and it's pretty interesting, but what I guess I feel working with images in teaching reading and writing can do is pull from a bank of emotional and aesthetic associations in a very fresh, immediate, playful, vibrant way. students who don't always love to read or write can appreciate the energy and aliveness of images. I think there's a lot I can do with these ideas. this is fresh turf for me instructionally and whatever happens, I'm excited about the ideas that are coming to me.
any thoughts?