The venue was to be a field in a small village in County Durham, when we arrived it was very cold and the sun was in the wrong place so the side of the field I preferred to shoot from meant the sheep were too far away to be relevant in the frame. "That's ok" he said, "I'll just climb over the fence and get closer". "Will you not get into trouble for doing that?" I asked, he replied "Of course not I'm a policeman" !!.....So over he went then he turned and said "I'll hold your camera while you climb over"........Haha - not a chance was I going to risk getting chased by an irate farmer!! I opted to put the long lens on and shoot through the fence, this also meant the background would be compressed by the longer focal length, bringing the sheep closer into the frame and it also meant that the dog didn't have to get too close to the sheep that it made them jittery which of course was what the campaign was aiming to prevent..
The result was this:-
Of course it goes without saying that if it had been necessary for me to climb that fence then I wouldn't have hesitated for second ;)