Prompt
· English
View from under a table or a shelf, its underside a dark band across the top of the frame, of a 76-year-old man and a 78-year-old man hunched over a lane at a neon-lit bowling alley. The first man, laughing so hard the eyes squeeze shut and the head tips back, is of East African descent with rich chestnut-brown skin, a tall lanky frame, very tall stature, a diamond-shaped face with high cheekbones, grey eyes, thin fine eyebrows, densely packed tight coils of long mid-back soft black hair with brown glints twisted into a messy bun, a grey beard, and wearing an unbuttoned red flannel shirt over a black tank top and worn jeans. He points at the digital score screen displaying a 'SPARE' in bright green pixels. The second man, shouting with the mouth wide open and the cords of the neck standing out, is of Caribbean descent with warm caramel-brown skin, broad shoulders and a solid frame, very tall stature, a long narrow face, pale light-blue eyes, sharply angled eyebrows, tight corkscrew curls of short cropped silver-grey hair combed into a sharp side part, a long beard down to the chest, and wearing a green polo shirt and beige shorts. He holds a rental shoe box. A sticky note with a phone number is on the back of the bowling ball, which is in the gutter. A spilled cup of orange soda is on the floor near the seating area. Shot with a 50mm lens at arm's length, one low desk lamp creating a warm pool of light on the table and dark walls, everything curling inwards along a spiral towards the main figure. Shot on 35mm film with visible grain, shallow depth of field, and a warm orange color cast from the desk lamp.
