My parents on Memorial Day, 1990

July 1st in Newfoundland is Memorial Day, on which a large parade is
held culminating in wreaths being laid by various people on behalf of
organisations at the National War Memorial in downtown St. John's.

My parents were both members of the Society of United Fishermen and, a
few times in the late 1980s and early 1990s, my mother represented the
SUF in laying a Memorial Day wreath. Here, just after the 1990
ceremonies, they are standing in front of the wreath she had laid a
few minutes earlier.

I scanned this negative just this morning, 28 years later. I am glad
this picture turned out as well as it did, because I made spooling
errors when developing the roll, and several shots are damaged. This
one is only damaged by my inability to hold a camera plumb to the
ground; I turned it a little in its frame. I like the fact they
were distracted by the guy who was striding across my view; another
picture has them looking at me but it's not as interesting.

Kodak TMax 400 TMY, I think in my Minolta X370. Its lens was not bad
at its middle range (like f/5.6) but softened very considerably in
either direction from there. I suspect this was shot in the middle.