This could be it

Yes indeed, this may be the best people picture I have ever taken. It was shot on a Ferragosto afternoon in Scopello, Sicily. This family was all dressed up for the occasion. Ferragosto is the fifteenth of August and is the feast of the assumption and a national holiday. I posed  them around a Vespa  scooter that belonged to one of the family members. The year was 1969 and the camera was the Canon FT/QL with the superb Canon 50 mm  F 1.4 FL lens. Naturally, the film was Tri-X. What is uncanny is the fact that all the children are now approaching mature age and the adults are old, to put it mildly. This is photography's unique ability to capture a moment in space-time and freeze it forever. It is really a powerful craft.