Battle of Orgreave: the miner and the copper Size:20.3 cm x 30.5 cm, 8.0 inches x 12.0 inches This dramatic opportunity at Sandsend

This dramatic opportunity at Sandsend in North Yorkshire was created by a combination of high tide and winds

with a lovely blurred and over-exposed background of their animals

Utterly superb

A pure white

but their coats – and distinctive panda eyes and black noses – appear to pop out of the photograph

Battle of Orgreave: the miner and the copper Size:20.3 cm x 30.5 cm, 8.0 inches x 12.0 inches This dramatic opportunity at SandsendIt is one of the abiding images of the 1984 coal strike Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. The two men were on opposite sides of one of the bitterest industrial disputes of the 20th century. Golf balls, stones and sharpened coins had been flying, police horses were about to charge, and the leader of Britain's striking mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, had been arrested in that same field outside