Here is the first in what I hope to be a regular series of my favourite photographs taken for the Guernsey Press. Over the next few weeks I'll be posting some of the best images from the past 2 years, then more current shots as they become available. Copyright for these is retained by the Guernsey Press and prints may be obtained from them.

We've taken so many recycling-themed shots in the past that original ideas are becoming difficult to come by. I'd already decided I wanted a shot which appeared to be taken from the inside of the bin, but they are sealed and cannot be entered. A lady arrived with her young daughter who wanted to help mum with the recycling. I asked her to park her car as close as possible to the skip to allow the child to stand on the bonnet.


The shot was taken through a slit on the other side, just large enough to allow the front of my lens through. A flashgun was placed on a stand pointing toward the girl through another slit further along the skip and fired remotely to illuminate the otherwise pitch-dark interior and the young girls' face. At this point, I'm tempted to make a joke about the benefits of thinking outside of the box, but that would just be childish and wrong... I was clearly trying to think inside it...