Each week, our chief photographer, Anita Ross Marshall, shares her favourite photographs from the archive. She writes: 

I learnt some time ago that what you may think at the start of a photo job to be a disaster - can turn out to be the thing that gives the image its core and strength. 

The job was covering the floods - but someone had lit a bonfire and the smoke hung like a haze obscuring the view. At its height - you could see nothing. 

But I waited...because just enough smoke will act like a natural filter and turn your image into a thing of real beauty.

  • Image: Spade Oak floods
  • Camera Data: Canon EOS 1D, Lens f/2.8 16-35mm, Focal Length 25mm, Exposure 1/400th sec, f/10, ISO 200.