Mamiya C330, 80mm lens, f/11, 1/125, Kodak Ektar 100, no light metering (guess work).

Exposure number: 6.

Changes to the original: none.

I spotted this church entrance while strolling with my relatives in downtown Sables d’Olonne. Mostly aged persons went and came through this door. What drew my attention is of course the obvious association between the very old looking stones of this particular church’s walls (the Atlantic Ocean is probably 400 meters at most from this place) and the aged persons. So I decided to just stand there and wait. My back was on a closed shop’s window hence the rather tight framing and I was expecting someone like the woman featured on the picture. A few persons came out but though aged, they looked in a pretty good shape and then this woman came out and I closed the shutter and only then I realized that I had an Ektar 100 film loaded and not some nifty XP2 400 ;-).

While the picture doesn’t look particularly straight, that’s because the steps are a bit of a slope…