{
 "model": "gemini-3-pro-image",
 "date": "2026-11-08",
 "style": "Photographic still for an arthouse film studio. Natural light, cool and sharp, deep focus throughout, no shallow depth of field, no bokeh, muted palette leaning to blue-grey, true neutral whites, fine film grain. Restrained, precise composition with generous negative space.",
 "plates": [
  {
   "slug": "01-gypsum",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "A raw unpainted gypsum-plaster wall in an old courtyard house, afternoon open shade with one hard band of direct light across the plaster showing trowel texture. One plain rectangular window with a flat wooden shutter, closed. Stone floor.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-01-gypsum.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "02-lazaward",
   "aspect": "16:9",
   "prompt": "Macro photograph of a raw piece of lapis lazuli stone resting on a slab of grey slate, visible golden pyrite flecks and white calcite veins, flat north daylight from the left, matte surfaces, sharp throughout. No jewellery, no gold leaf.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-02-lazaward.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "03-kohl",
   "aspect": "16:9",
   "prompt": "Macro photograph of galena mineral crystals, cubic, dark blue-grey and metallic, resting on unbleached linen, soft overcast daylight, sharp throughout. No containers, no tools.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-03-kohl.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "04-rooftops",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "Limestone and concrete rooftops of a hillside Levantine city at midday, black water tanks and thin television aerials, hard flat light, pale blue-grey sky, no haze, wide lens, deep focus.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-04-rooftops.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "05-cinema",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "An empty 1950s modernist single-screen cinema auditorium with the house lights up, rows of worn blue-grey velvet seats, a blank matte white screen in a plain rectangular proscenium, deep focus, symmetrical.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-05-cinema.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "06-grove",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "Inside a date palm grove in a desert oasis at midday, dappled light on pale sand, a straight concrete irrigation channel with still water, palm trunks in rows, deep focus. No buildings.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-06-grove.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "07-quarry",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "A pale limestone quarry with freshly cut rectangular blocks showing saw marks, chalk dust on the ground, flat overcast light, wide, deep focus. No machinery.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-07-quarry.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "08-stage",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "An empty film sound stage: a seamless white cyclorama wall meeting a dark blue-grey painted floor, one unlit tungsten lamp on a stand, cool work light, sharp throughout. No screens.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-08-stage.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "09-wadi",
   "aspect": "21:9",
   "prompt": "A still pool in a dark basalt wadi, grey rock walls, pale water reflecting a white sky, late morning with no direct sun, deep focus. No palm trees in frame.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-09-wadi.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "10-lighttable",
   "aspect": "16:9",
   "prompt": "A film editor's light table seen from above, two strips of blank unexposed 35mm film and a small loupe lying on the glowing white surface, cool light from below, sharp throughout. The film frames are completely blank.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-10-lighttable.jpg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "11-stair",
   "aspect": "2:3",
   "prompt": "A narrow stair of raw gypsum plaster turning upward inside an old house, hard direct daylight cutting one sharp diagonal shadow across the steps and wall, deep focus, vertical composition.",
   "web": "plates/web/plate-11-stair.jpg"
  }
 ],
 "series": {
  "2": {
   "date": "2026-11-08",
   "style": "Documentary photograph, natural daylight, true colour, deep focus throughout, no haze, no lens flare, no slow-motion look, fine grain, nothing staged, no people, no hands, no shadows of people, no text or signage.",
   "plates": [
    {
     "slug": "12-laundry",
     "aspect": "21:9",
     "prompt": "Coloured sheets and shirts on a washing line across a limestone rooftop in a hillside Levantine city, strong midday wind lifting the sheets, black water tanks, the sea in the far distance, hard sun."
    },
    {
     "slug": "13-breakfast",
     "aspect": "16:9",
     "prompt": "A courtyard table under a grapevine after breakfast: tea glasses half finished, one small blue tea glass among clear ones, torn bread, a dish of olives and labneh, one chair pushed back, morning sun through the leaves."
    },
    {
     "slug": "14-pitch",
     "aspect": "21:9",
     "prompt": "A dust football pitch between apartment blocks, a worn football resting on the chalk line, late afternoon, long shadows of the goalposts only."
    },
    {
     "slug": "15-balcony",
     "aspect": "4:5",
     "prompt": "A tiled balcony with potted mint, basil and jasmine, a plastic chair turned toward the street, washing on the rail, noon light."
    },
    {
     "slug": "16-rooftop-cinema",
     "aspect": "21:9",
     "prompt": "Rows of plastic chairs on a flat roof facing a white cloth screen stretched between two poles, a string of bare bulbs, blue hour, the lights of a city beyond, sharp. The skyline has no towers of worship."
    },
    {
     "slug": "17-oranges",
     "aspect": "16:9",
     "prompt": "A citrus grove with wooden crates of freshly picked oranges, a wooden ladder leaning into a tree, bright winter sun, deep green leaves and orange fruit."
    },
    {
     "slug": "18-corniche",
     "aspect": "21:9",
     "prompt": "A concrete seafront railing beside a bright turquoise sea at noon, a child's bicycle leaning on the railing, the pavement still wet and drying in the sun."
    },
    {
     "slug": "19-rehearsal",
     "aspect": "16:9",
     "prompt": "A frame drum resting on a wooden chair in a rehearsal room, a music stand, a glass of tea on the floor, side window light on a bare plaster wall."
    },
    {
     "slug": "20-living-room",
     "aspect": "4:5",
     "prompt": "A living room in the afternoon: a sofa with embroidered cushions, a brass tray with small coffee cups, a television switched off, light through a half-closed shutter."
    },
    {
     "slug": "21-harbour",
     "aspect": "21:9",
     "prompt": "Painted working fishing boats pulled up on a concrete quay, nets and oil cans, flat clear light, the boats carry no painted names or numbers. No tourists, no cafes."
    },
    {
     "slug": "14v-pitch",
     "aspect": "2:3",
     "prompt": "A dust football pitch between apartment blocks seen from low down, a worn football resting on the white chalk line in the foreground, the goalposts and their long late-afternoon shadows behind, the apartment blocks rising into a clear sky, vertical composition."
    },
    {
     "slug": "12v-laundry",
     "aspect": "9:16",
     "prompt": "Coloured sheets and shirts on a washing line across a limestone rooftop in a hillside Levantine city, strong midday wind lifting the sheets, black water tanks, the sea in the far distance, hard sun, vertical composition."
    }
   ]
  }
 },
 "retired": [
  "06-grove",
  "08-stage",
  "09-wadi",
  "10-lighttable"
 ]
}