Overanalyze This

I was digging through some old image scans and happened across this image, which I took sometime in the mid 1980s. Clicking the image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image.



Here is your chance to go overanalytical on me. Let me know what message(s) are being conveyed by this image via your comments.

Hint: If you don't know what the black thing with the yellow light is, take a look at this introduction.