I still notice new things in the picture. He’s done it a few times since with another shooter, which I don’t like! But we’ve got a good relationship, and I’m still tight with his parents. When Spencer was 10, I recreated the image with him for Rolling Stone. But it’s always the record labels that make the money. He feels that everybody made money off it and he didn’t. I used to think, “Man, when that kid is 16 he’s gonna hate my guts!” He doesn’t, but he’s conflicted about the picture. It’s one thing to drown the kid, but another to stick him on a fishhook! I’m just glad I didn’t have to capture it all in one shot. It would have been easy, but I didn’t care at the time. He doesn’t, but he is conflicted because everybody made money off it and he didn’tĪ guy in New York shot the dollar bill. I used to think, Man, when that kid is 16 he’s gonna hate my guts. But the label loved the original shot of Spencer and went with that. This one girl was 10 months old, she could really motor, so I shot her from the side. So I went to a kids’ swim school and got half a dozen other babies in the water. I thought, “Man, it’s such a dick shot!” His unit was so prominent in the picture … he’s a well hung kid for a four-month old, you know? I didn’t know if the label would go for it. But when I looked at it more closely I had some doubts. That’s the thing about old-school photography – as a pro, you have to know that you’ve got it before you leave. It took an hour to set up and five minutes to do. Put him in – bang, bang, bang, bang, bang – he starts to cry, “OK, we’re done!” We ended up with about 25 frames. Mum pulls him out, he’s cool, so we go again. Dad gave him a small shove, he drifted by the camera – bang, bang, bang, bang, bang – I shot off five frames. Then we took the little guy, blew a little air into his face and eased him into the water. I had a snorkel and an underwater camera on a tripod. I think I got $1,000 to shoot it – that was for everything, including the gear and the cost of another rescue diver.