冬泳上岸的阿姨

A portrait of an East Asian woman in her mid-sixties just out of a winter sea swim at dawn, standing on a pebble beach, photographed from the shoulders up. She wears a bright orange swim cap and is wrapped up to her neck in a thick navy towelling robe, cheeks flushed red with cold, a cloud of breath in the air, grinning with real teeth and laughing eyes. Wet strands of grey hair escape the cap, water drops on her face, real wrinkles and sun-weathered skin. Behind her, a soft grey sea, a pale pink sky and two other swimmers in robes far away, out of focus. Natural light, shallow depth of field, a little film grain. Palette of navy, orange and pale dawn pink. Joyful and tough. No text anywhere.