Surrounded by hippies collapsed in a sea of mud, a young couple hug each other while wrapped in a bedraggled blanket.
Nick and Bobbi Ercoline didn't know it, but they were about to become an iconic symbol of the Woodstock rock festival.
It is now exactly 40 years since the couple joined a crowd estimated at 500,000 for the four-day event. But their relationship is still going strong. They married two years after Woodstock, have two sons and still live not far from the concert site at Bethel in upstate New York.
Yesterday the Ercolines, both 60, returned to their field of dreams for an anniversary event which starts today.
'Who'd have thought that our 15 minutes of fame would last 40 years?' said Nick, who now works for his county's housing department.
He and Bobbi, a school nurse, never intended to go to the original concert.
But as the couple sat listening to the radio that weekend, the crowd swelled, police closed the roads and broadcast appeals for people to stay away. This made them determined to join in the fun.
They grabbed a gallon jug of red wine, some bags of crisps, and headed for Woodstock, abandoning the car six miles from the concert and walking the rest of the way.
The couple were pictured by a wandering photographer and the shot made it on to the cover of the Woodstock triple album featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
Nick recalls that he and Bobbi were listening to it at a friend's house when he picked up the sleeve. 'I said, "Hey that's our blanket." Then I said, "Hey, that's us!"'
Many of the crowd at the original festival were shirtless for most of the weekend
A 'Hippies Always Welcome' sign sits in a window in the town of Woodstock, New York as the 40th anniversary of the festival approached