Photog Xforms Men 2 Apes

Sometimes, I experience things as a photographer that make me feel old, devoid of humour, or whatever:

It's not the first time I observed that the sheer sight of a camera can transform (more or less) grown men into apes that crave to make fools of themselves. This is the first time I didn't turn away in disgust, but pressed the shutter because they seemed to have fun.

The strange thing was that there actually was no apparent reason for this behavior - I walked along an inconspicuous street to take architecture pictures, and I did not know these people. I didn't wear a funny hat, nor was I practicing my latest silly walk, and when I shot this picture, it wasn't the time of the Oktoberfest (that's when such a behavior could be considered closer to the - alcoholized - human species).

Ah well - maybe it is that they realized that in those post-Warholian times, everyone of us only gets a few seconds of fame (shucks, weren't those times great when it still was a quarter of an hour?).