A high-resolution photo of Ruth Bradley, a 35-year-old blonde woman with honey-blonde waves cascading over her shoulders, her striking gaze locked toward the horizon. She stands on a windswept desert ridge at golden hour, wearing a blood-red silk shirt paired with frayed denim jeans, her posture rigid with quiet defiance. The background features a fractured mirage of a cityscape shimmering in the heat, with a lone coyote trotting toward the edge of the frame. Captured with a large-format film camera at f/5.6, the image glows with amber sunlight and stark shadows. Her fingertips brush a rusted guitar slung over her shoulder, its strings glinting like shattered glass.
