Nothing really inspired this image directly. It came about spontaneously, in the moment I looked from the street down onto the course, the fans, and the buildings around them.

The picture was made right after Le Tour I. Once we had taken that image, we started walking toward the finish, and it had begun to drizzle lightly. We were on the street running parallel to the Champs when we suddenly had this raised view down onto the road and the crowds along it. I decided on the spot to make one more image, mostly because of the architecture around it and the composition, which spoke to me through the architecture pictures I had made before. I wasn't sure I would still get enough light, because it kept getting darker, and I wanted to shoot very stopped down so that everything would come out sharp, without really knowing how the focus range behaves in that format. I thought the riders might turn out too blurry because of the exposure time, but in the end it came out exactly the way I wanted, so that you get a sense of how fast they move down the street.

In terms of content, I like this image a little more than the first one, because I feel there is more of me and my view of the day and the stage in it. It also feels more special to me, because it holds a single moment more than the first one does. The Arc I could probably photograph again at some future final stage, and nobody would be able to tell it was two different days. With this image it's different. The facade right in the middle is only a construction hoarding, and the finished building stands there now. And through the Danish flags in the crowd you can tell it must be one of the two years Vingegaard won, which makes it special for me to hold on to a small part of that story, since he is so far the only rider who has beaten Pogačar at a Tour. That's also why it's a motif I would like to photograph again some day.