Prompt
· English
First-person view with the photographer's own hands visible at the bottom edge of the frame, capturing a toddler and a parent in a garden at night. The toddler, an 8-year-old boy of East African descent with deep espresso-brown skin and fine pin-straight black hair cropped short and tousled, sits on a wooden bench covered in thick green moss, wearing a bright blue raincoat and frog-print wellies, concentrating hard with his tongue poking out as he holds a small flower. A single leaf falls onto his head. Beside him, a 22-year-old woman of East Asian descent with very fair porcelain skin, a full-figured build, and a smooth shaved head with chestnut-brown hair catching the light, kneels in a fur-trimmed parka and thick mittens, gazing off dreamily with a soft smile and parted lips. A bird perches on a nearby branch, its eye catching the light. The scene is captured with a tilt-shift lens creating a narrow sharp band across the frame while the top and bottom remain softly blurred. The horizon is placed very low, leaving two-thirds of the frame filled by the night sky. A flash of lightning at night freezes the scene in a cold white instant. Shot on a digital SLR camera with a tilt-shift lens, showing sharp focus in the center band, soft blur in the periphery, and a high-contrast monochromatic cast from the lightning flash.