Prompt
· English
Seen through the glass of a display case, with the shelf edge and price tags at the bottom, an 85mm lens from a few metres captures a 35-year-old woman of Southern African descent standing in a rustic kitchen, slowly pouring water from a ceramic kettle into a glass teapot on a wooden table, making a mischievous sideways glance with a sly half-grin. Her medium olive-brown skin contrasts with her angular face and hollow cheeks, dark brown eyes and bushy eyebrows, her thick coarse straight hair dyed pastel pink and cut in short cropped shoulder-grazing locs, wearing round wire-frame glasses and soft grey loungewear and wool socks. A drip of water falls from the spout, loose leaf tea spills slightly from the strainer, and steam rises from the hot water. The main figure fills the frame edge to edge, the background crowded out. Orange firelight from a fireplace flickers from below, casting warm tones on the ceramic and wood. Shot on a medium format camera with a shallow depth of field, soft focus falloff, and warm color cast.
