Anti-war protest

It would take acres of text to explain the background to today's adventure so let's skip all of that and start at 2:30pm with me sitting in an Inverness hotel sorting through photos of a small anti-war protest that had just finished.

With a 90-minute deadline imposed by the bus timetable, I picked out 10 photos, captioned them and sent them on their merry way to the BBC, only to find that the hotel's wireless connection was running slow. When the e-mail finally finished sending I got an error message from Gmail saying that it was too large. The sent messages list showed that it had gone but the final photo had been removed, so I sent that separately and legged it to catch the early bus home.

As I got on the bus I had a nagging feeling that the first e-mail wouldn't have actually gone, so I got off the bus and headed back to the hotel. Sure enough when I went back online there was a failure notice. I sent the photos again in two e-mails, five pics each. Back to the bus station and away home.

There was an e-mail waiting for me when I got home saying that the single image had got through okay but none of the others had. There was already a brief report up on the BBC Scotland site (here) with the one picture that had got through, and I think it's the best human-interest picture so it all worked out well in the end.

This is the picture that was used:

This is the one I had expected to be used but looking at it now the one with the kid was the clear choice. I was going for dramatic lighting with this one but it just looks like a bad flash snapshot…

Here's the rest of the set: