School Zone

 

2015-XA2-001-004a

I remember taking this picture, but for the life of me could not remember where.

I finally figured out it must have been in Port Alberni when I was there in November.

This film has been in my coat-pocket camera since just before that trip; the next frame is from the day after I returned.

Detective work – notes would have helped.

This is the first roll of Ilford XP2 that I have shot. I used it with various ISO settings from 100 to 800 and am very pleased with the results.

Many thanks to Gary at Filmadvance for the recommendation.

 

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Olympus XA2, f3.5/35mm lens, Ilford XP2, scanned with Epson V700

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11 thoughts on “School Zone”

    • Thanks Jane. I think it probably works better in monochrome than it could in colour – that sign was a very bright colour (yellow or pink, but I can’t remember now). Just as well that it works since I had black and white film in my pocket camera 🙂

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  3. So powerful as image, and scary! I agree, it would be a great road safety poster. When I was 8 or 9, a boy in our class got killed by a truck. His empty desk in the classroom was my first encounter with death. A memory that stays with me forever (and sometimes slightly haunts me now, as a mother of an 11 year old…). A longish comment here, but you see, it’s an image that really triggers something.

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    • Thank you Gunilla, those memories are the kind that get permanently wired in. I can recall from my childhood a friend dashing out between cars only to be hit by one moving down the street. He was badly injured and I was left with a vivid mental snapshot of the event. I might even have concocted that snapshot from the story, I no longer remember. But it will always be with me.

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