Better Late Than Never Dep't

My year-old comment on a beautiful photo by Philip Coggan (click on link above).

This photo seems to have become iconic. Comments on it say more about the commenters than about the photograph, which has near-perfect composition and B&W tonality exactly suitable to the subject. As to the .45, let's not make too much soup from one onion. The hammer's down, the boy's smiling, with one eye closed and a playground stance. He is in fact playing, and looks a perfectly nice boy. Girls like dolls, boys like guns, cats eat mice, dogs chase cats. Somebody from Mars might be shocked, I guess.