Cheese

Nobody is behind that camera- it's just sitting there on a table. We’re taking this picture of ourselves, and check out our faces... We're standing there, looking into the future, trying desperately to convince ourselves that we're having fun.

I was walking on a beach near Los Angeles, and a wedding party came trudging through the sand. The photographer told the women to "look happy", and then, as if some drug were released into the air, the women started running through the sand like school children. The photographer tells them all "that's enough", and everyone returns to normal.

Those wedding pictures won't show the kid with sand in his eye; he got cropped out. So did the old couple sun bathing by the stairs…  And nobody will remember the sunburns, but damned if they don’t look happy.

We didn’t want to capture a moment. We just wanted the good parts.