Having dropped Lara off at Waterloo, LA and I took a walk along the southbank. We needed the fresh air! I felt as rough as the torn fragments on this billboard, but with Linda acting as both tripod and remote release, I framed up this SP. OK, so she actually pressed the button, but we agreed, I took the photo...

UPDATE: This is the first time in my PotD that a finger other than mine has pressed the button. So I feel the need to Justify this as being MY shot: Whenever you take (make?) a photograph, you first see the potential picture in your mind. You then work out how to achieve your visualisation. That might be by pointing, shooting and hoping that the camera’s automation get’s it right, or it might entail setting up a view camera on a tripod, taking multiple light readings, calculating depth of field, making exposure notes and adjusting the development time to capture as much detail on your 10”x8” negative as possible. Or anything in between. In this case, I saw the billboard, and saw the potential to use it as a backdrop for an SP. I borrowed Linda’s G3 - for some reason, I didn’t have my own camera with me - I set up the composition, focussed, then asked LA to hold the camera “just there” while I got into shot. She then pressed the button. We all see things differently and Linda hadn’t seen this potential shot. Had she chosen to take a photograph of me at that time she would have certainly come up with something entirely different. Looking at it now, I think I may have visualized this in the 3:2 format of my DSLR. The space on the left of the picture is exacly what I wanted, but it probably needs a little more on the right.