Your Eyes Only?

Picture this: you re out clubbing at some popular spring break locale when the rotund football player from USC (who earned his way into the entour-age last night by drinking straight from the pitcher) is shaking his gut like a bowl full of Jello shotsasans shirt. Obviously a Kodak moment, right? Well, before you click the shutter, stop. Stop and think about the poor photo developers who will have to see that too.

Mike Halal is one of those brave souls. As a manager at the Motofoto on JFK Street, he gets a sneak peek at Harvard s snapshots from around the globe. In recent years, he s seen photos from Cuba, India, Russia, Mount Everest, Alaska (>=lots and lots of Alaska<=)aeven shots from a relief effort in Rwanda. Regardless of the backdrop, Halal notes that tourists seem to be tourists the world over. >=No matter what country, everyone takes a photograph in front of a street sign, as if they had to show they were actually there,<= he says.

Although Halal can t recall any particularly immoral or tasteless pictures, he s not eagerly awaiting any, either. So this spring break, stop and think of Mike Halal before you immortalize Mr. USC in all his jiggling glory.