GET OUT MORE

I couldn’t help but snap a photograph of this couple as I passed by them on my daily walk. I was struck of course by the absurdity of their position on this motorbike — they seemed more enraptured with the content streaming on their phones than the beauty of the day, or the existence of anything else, really.

But honestly, what made this a truly compelling image for me was the intimacy of their stance. You have to be really comfortable with a person to lose yourself in their presence, with no space at all between you, atop a vehicle the width of a sheet of paper, in 90-degree weather, under the sparse shade of a tree.

*singing loudly: Jose y Marta, sitting under a tree, S-C-R-O-L-L-I-N-G!