Prompt
· English
View from inside a cupboard looking out, capturing a 55-year-old woman of Melanesian descent on a balcony. She is giggling behind one hand, her eyes creased, fanning herself with a newspaper that is curling at the edges from the heat. The air is shimmering with heat, and there are wilted potted plants on the railing. The shutters of the apartment behind her are tightly closed. A beaded bracelet is slipping off her wrist, and there is condensation on a glass of water nearby. The woman has warm caramel-brown skin, a soft heavyset build, is tall, and has a face wider at the jaw than at the temples. Her deep blue eyes are bright, her bushy eyebrows are expressive, and she has laugh lines around her eyes. Her hair is tightly coiled zig-zag hair, long mid-back, dyed cherry red, worn loose and natural. She wears a faded denim jacket over a plain white T-shirt and black jeans. The 85mm lens from a few metres compresses the background and softens it, with the main figure as a dark silhouette against a bright background. Car headlights sweeping in from the side cast long hard shadows stretching across the ground. Shot on a 50mm lens with a shallow depth of field and a warm color cast.