Prompt
· English
Amateur phone photo of real people. The woman, a 36-year-old woman of Micronesian descent with deep espresso-brown skin, salt-and-pepper hair, dark brown eyes, thick straight eyebrows and a long narrow face, short, with a muscular build with strong arms, leans her shoulder against the wall with one knee bent. Her face is cheeky: one brow raised, eyes sparkling at the photographer, a small smug smile, cheeks pink. She pulls her string top up over her breasts with both hands, caught mid-motion, leaving both small soft breasts bare, their nipples stiff, showing them to him. She arches her back toward him, pushing her chest forward, seducing him lazily after a long evening of photos. She wears black sheer skin-tight leggings, her thong visible through them. She has coral lipstick and light mascara, intact, and her hair in a messy bun. Two people in the picture, one woman, and the photographer cut off at the frame edge, the man is the photographer: The photographer is a thick-set Polish man in his forties with a shaved head, a blond goatee and a beer gut over strong arms wearing a polo shirt and shorts, fully dressed, standing two or three steps away from her, turned toward her, an old film camera up to his eye, his face concentrated, eyes on his camera, cut off at the very left edge of the frame, a few steps away from her, the lens of his camera facing her, away from the lens of this picture, toward the viewer only the back and the viewfinder of his camera and its edge, soft and out of focus. She poses for him as a frozen instant. A train station platform, a train pulling in. Horizontal landscape frame. Camera from her left side, she is in profile facing the photographer, her face in profile. Medium close shot from her head down to her waist, her face sharp. Amateur phone snapshot with the direct on-camera flash, flat harsh light, unretouched skin with visible pores, small blemishes and shine on her forehead, high ISO grain, slightly soft focus.
