These two were doing what millions of others do: checking their cell phones. And not just that. Sitting together while chatting, reading, or texting separately. Even in the middle of a noisy state fair and surrounded by tens of thousands of people, they quietly tapped, nearly motionless, on a small piece of real estate where they had staked a claim. I’m not making fun of them or their activity. I do such things often myself. But the scene amused me simply because it has become commonplace. It’s convenient and sometimes necessary in this age on constant contact.
I learned that this man and woman were “kind of” related. The family connecting them was elsewhere at the fair, somewhere to the right of my camera. They laughed after I told them what I hoped to capture in a photo. “Just keep doing what you’re doing,” I suggested. And they laughed again.
(State Fair in Puyallup, September 2014)
P.S. I regret that I didn’t do better managing the light in this photo. Sorry about that.