By Vanessa Toye

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Billowing in the wind, his white cape was won from a battle just moments ago and this final act will finish it all. Having pinned down Spiderman, he takes aim for a calculated blow with a purple pillow.
A great shot by Word Freak of a moment caught during the Newmindspace Pillow Fight, but is this the start of many other similar photos appearing? With the number of photographers nearly overtaking participants, there is a higher difficulty in attaining that unique shot. Torontoist’s own David Topping was part of the group surrounding the kids as the event dispersed and recounts at least five or six photographers in the bunch. “A few guys chanted “Photo op! Photo op!” One photographer who saw the crowd actually visibly got quite pissed off and said something like “I’m gonna be original and NOT take a photo of this.” One guy even posed pointing at the kids surrounded by photographers while his friend took a photo,” he says. But who can really resist two cute kids mugging it up for the camera.