composes her pictures by intuition, rather than following any rule book, and
the composition is quite unusual here. The model is relatively small in the frame
for a fashion shot and large areas are taken up with sky and the long grass in the
foreground. The effect of this, together with the use of black and white, is to make
the shot look more like a piece of reportage than staged fashion, which really
helps bring the invented story of the lost soldier to life.