Cumbrian Shepherd, 1990Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe was on a whirlwind tour of Cumbria in November 1990, documenting the activities of rural communities with the then Countryside Commission, when he chanced upon a pair of shepherds bringing their sheep down from the hills a ritual known as the gather, says Thorpe. I was lucky to be there at the moment they came through the gate I felt Id captured the animals breath in the cold air. It was a beautiful composition, he