Anne Cooper.

Baskets in Bayeux.

We were spending a night in Bayeux on our way to the south of France. It was late afternoon and I went for a stroll carrying a Rollei T. I took a left turn out of the sun and into the shadow and came upon these baskets creeping out of the shop on to the pavement and up the steps. Struck by how well they had been arranged, I took one exposure. The film was Kodak T-Max and was developed in HC110. It is a very well-behaved negative.
The original print was on fibre based paper, sepia toned. Redolent of Victorian photographs, sepia is fine for nostalgia but I am a little hesitant about using it in case one is seduced into a cheap, quick, spurious effect. I used it here because what I saw was suffused with brown. Perhaps it came from the late afternoon light, or the colour of the stone and paving slabs or did the deep brown of the glazed earthenware pots wash across the image ?