Prompt
· English
Shot through a narrow gap between two real objects of the place, their blurred edges in the foreground, of a 45-year-old man lighthouse keeper alone climbing the spiral stairs of a lighthouse, with a sea serpent coiling around the base. The man has deep espresso-brown skin, a blushing and laughing expression in embarrassment with one hand on the back of the neck, a long narrow face, amber eyes, high arched eyebrows, and a full thick beard. He has a muscular build with broad arms and tall stature. His hair is salt-and-pepper, ear-length, in shoulder-grazing locs with defined S-shaped waves. He is dressed exactly as the role of the lighthouse keeper requires, wearing a heavy wool coat and sturdy boots. The sea serpent's wet scales glisten in the lamplight, and its eye peers over the railing. Salt spray covers the lighthouse glass. A rope frays at the handrail. The composition curls inwards along a spiral towards the main figure. Shot on a 200mm telephoto lens from far away, background layers stacked flat. Car headlights sweep in from the side, creating long hard shadows stretching across the ground. Shot on a full-frame DSLR with shallow depth of field, emphasizing the keeper against the blurred foreground objects and the coiled serpent below.
