Alma is grieving

Town counselor Jean-Rock Pedneault poses in front of the city Hall of Alma (Quebec), 250km north of Quebec City January 16, 2008. With the death of soldier Richard Renaud, Alma is the latest town saddened by losing one of it’s citizen. Photo Francis Vachon for The Globe and Mail.
Technical: Canon EOS 1D Mark II, 1/250 at f6,3 with a 70-200 at 108mm – ISO 200, direct flash on camera right

Customers get in and out of an IGA grocery store in Alma (Quebec) where soldier Richard Renaud used to work before enrolling with the military. Renaud was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Jan.15. Photo Francis Vachon for The Globe and Mail.
Technical: Canon EOS 20D, 1/200 at f7,1 with a 16-35 at 23mm – ISO 200