‘It was such a Wes Anderson moment’: Joe Macdonald’s best phone picture

The cameraman captured the three girls bickering in a perfect movie-style shot. The next moment, they were smiling again

The argument broke out a few minutes into the rickety tram ride from Port de Soller in Mallorca. Sisters Rosa, four, on the right, and Lois, seven, nearest the camera, were bickering with their friend Bibi, eight, all three a little cranky after a busy day on the beach. Their parents sat opposite, and Rosa and Lois's dad, Joe Macdonald, used his iPhone 13 Pro Max to capture the scene.

It was late afternoon, maybe five or six, so the lighting was just right," Macdonald says. I work with camera and lighting for film and TV, so spend a lot of time looking at monitors, and know how fortunate it is to capture a moment that has drama but is also real.