I’ve not been doing a lot of editing recently but I’m getting back into it now - I love editing images and I can happily spend all day doing it. I took this image 13 months ago so that’s much longer than I normally leave images before working them up. But I do like to leave a reasonable time because I think you are in a better position to assess their potential. To explain; I took 135 images of Steph and this is the only one I will use in competitions. I think I was better able to decide this was the one because any high’s and low’s of the shoot have long since faded from the memory, I’m not so emotionally attached now. I used a Pinterest board to give me inspiration - a technique I use regularly to gather lots of images I like from around the Web. I was also able to use a background from a shoot 4 years ago - an abandoned waterworks in South Yorkshire. Together with my good friend David Cudworth I had a short Urbex fascination & we got into lots of abandoned buildings. We had great fun (big kids & all that) so it’s great to also be able to use an image that has good memories. Anyway, here’s the image, with special thanks to the dancer, Steph Ovenden.