I’ve never had much luck shooting pictures from a bus, though other people I know are real masters at it. This picture was one exception. I was heading to a Berber village in the mountains of Algeria, south of Algiers, when these two girls came into view. They looked up at the window and smiled and the one girl put her arm around her friend (of sister) and I took the picture. Their friendship seemed so perfectly expressed in their mutual ‘reverse embrace’, looping them together. The smaller girl’s smile was so spontaneous and beautiful and the older girl seemed to have a more serious look, indicating her protectiveness.