Friend Shoots Friend then Self

Tabloid headlines are sometimes mis-leading. The misses here didn't miss or if they did, they just reviewed the images and re-shot. And re-shot, and re-shot, and re-shot. They were having the best time trying to get just the right framing of their friendship. There were several made with eyes closed or crossed, a couple just not right and one that was determined to be "hot".

One thing is certain: men would never do this, that is, take pictures of themselves and their best buddy huddled together on a train. Maybe I'm wrong, or old or both.

The cellphone camera has changed so many things. I saw a guy at Yankee Stadium in the upper deck taking a picture of the field to send to godknowswhere. This huge green landscape compressed down into a little two by two square. Tourists everywhere in the city snap, er, click, er, (there really isn't any sound of the cellphone shutter,,,,) they take photos. In St. Patrick's Catheral, in front of Cleopatra's Needle (there is an excellent red-leafed tree there), in Times Square. Billions of pictures are being taken now everyday, who says some of them aren't of some men, one with his left ear pressed against the right ear of his teammate? I just not seen any yet.

But I have seen girls like these before, taking pic after pic after pic, in cafes, at Starbucks, outside of the movies, at the RoadRunner races, in front of some statue or the Shake Shack or around the corner from Bloomingdale's.













































It's a very serious attempt to capture some fun.