If the happiness of children is a barometer of the peace and stability of a nation, then all was well in Syria when I took this photo in 1990.

I was shooting some photos at a farm when I heard whoops of joy and laughter. I found a group of boys in an irrigation cistern having the time of their lives.

Someone had turned on the irrigation water and it filled the basin and like boys anywhere they stripped down and took a plunge.

I laughed with them and was very tempted to strip down in my skivvies and join them.