Not long ago I went into Manhattan to meet some friends/former colleagues for a drink. I arrived early and while waiting for my friends to arrive I noticed this man sitting at the bar, his head bowed over his beer.

You might think that this is just a picture of a sad, lonely old guy drowning his sorrows at the bar, but you’d be wrong. He was actually very animated. He seemed to be a friend of the bartender, and they had a fairly long and cheerful conversation while the man drank a single beer. After that he paid and left.

Just goes to show how photographs can, and do deceive even without AI and Photoshop.

Taken with a Sony RX100 MVII.