When the weather is overcast, which it usually is this time of year, it’s important to try and divert from having the sky dominate the image, so I chose an angle which would be interesting enough in the foreground and would use the grey sky as a nice background to keep the skater clear. I set up one rear flash behind the hedges to light up the rail and the skater’s body, and another on the front right to make sure the skates were gleaming and there were no boring shadows hiding details behind the skater or in the hedges he was grinding over. Simon’s arm is slightly blurred from the motion, so a higher shutter speed would probably have been a better choice, and the glare on the right is due to the flash not being placed a sufficient distance out of the shot. — Tom McClelland