A real photograph, a frame from a Russian arthouse film shot on 35mm film with a Cooke S4 32mm at f/2.8 at golden hour. An old grey weathered wooden village house in northern Russia with carved white window frames, a sagging wooden fence and an overgrown garden of tall grass, wild chamomile and lilac; warm low sun flaring through birch trees. Vera, the woman from the reference (same face, freckles, ash-brown braid, sage-green linen dress, a canvas bag on her shoulder), seen from behind over her shoulder in the left third of the frame, her hand pushing open the creaking wooden gate, the house waiting deeper in the right of the frame. Pollen and gnats glowing in the backlight. Natural textures, soft focus falloff, gentle vignetting, faint chromatic aberration, visible film grain, muted true-to-life colours. Not glossy, no HDR, no illustration look. Vertical 9:16 photo. No text, no logos, no watermark.
