A real photograph, a frame from a Russian arthouse film set in the late 1990s, shot on 35mm film with a Cooke Speed Panchro 32mm at f/2.3, summer afternoon. Little Vera, an 8-year-old Russian girl — clearly the woman from the reference as a small child: same oval face, same freckles, grey-green eyes, ash-brown hair in two uneven braids, a faded cotton summer dress with a small flower print, a scraped knee, barefoot, missing front tooth — kneels inside an old greenhouse covered in cloudy plastic film among tomato plants, laughing at something off frame, sunlight glowing through the film behind her, framed in the right third. Natural skin texture, slight asymmetry, soft focus falloff, gentle vignetting, 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.
