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The film sat in an insulated drinks bottle for months. The opinion of people who know things was that when the film came unspooled in the camera and I opened the back, I had nothing but a prayer of the photos surviving. Three friends helped me have an attempt at developing the film. I was amazed to see ten surviving images from a hard mountainbike race. Now I can look into the faces of my friends and remember how I felt.

Little Ebba and parents. Thanks to Joe McNally for the “lights through a window” inspiration, the neighbours for not panicking about the bright flashes and Marcus for providing a convenient tupperware waterproofing method. Of course Victoria and Marcus put in the majority of the effort to make this picture possible. Flash outside the window to the left boosting the daylight and a warm fill from the light above their heads.  A quieter, less posed moment in natural light below.