We were leaving Douze very early in the morning. Our bus rolled through quiet streets, shrouded in the shadows of dawn. I was sitting next to the driver, and noticed a woman in black emerge from a door about a block ahead of us. I had time to set my shutter speed at 1/400th of a second to freeze the rocking, jolting movement of the bus. As we drew near, she stepped off the curb into an empty street and I made this image through the front window of the bus. To be able to use 1/400th of a second, I had to underexpose the image by a full stop. This led to a dark picture, but in this case the darkness works for me, as does the noise triggered by my use of ISO 400 for this image. The photograph becomes impressionistic rather than descriptive. The woman in black is mysterious and so is the darkness that provides the context.