Shanghai Shikumen Window Portrait

A candid photograph of a young woman leaning on the open sill of a tiger dormer window on the upper floor of a Shanghai shikumen building, authentic daily life photography, natural candid moment. Upper-body framing shot from below at moderate distance — she rests her forearms on the window ledge, looking out over the rooftops in the late afternoon. East Asian young woman in her early 20s. Almond-shaped eyes with natural double eyelids, slightly elongated eye corners — gaze directed outward and slightly downward toward the lane below, soft and unhurried, the expression of someone with nowhere pressing to be. Straight refined nose with a delicate bridge. Skin tone fair to light beige (NC10–NC20) — skin subsurface scattering visible under warm golden side light, specular micro-highlights on cheekbones and nose ridge and the top of one bare shoulder, fine foundation powder grain perceptible. Clean no-makeup summer skin, peachy gloss, curl in the lash. She wears a sage green cropped ribbed knit cami with thin adjustable straps, and a denim micro mini skirt. Fine layered gold chains at her collarbone — two of them, slightly different lengths. Hair loosely half-clipped with a claw clip, several strands falling free around her jaw. She rests her chin lightly on one hand, the other arm stretched along the window ledge — the universal posture of someone watching a street from above, neither bored nor alert, simply present in summer time. The tiger dormer window frame: old dark-painted wood, slightly weathered, panes of old glass with the faint optical distortion of age. The shikumen rooflines and chimney tops spread below. Over those old tiles, in the far blurred golden distance, the recognizable silhouettes of Shanghai Tower and the SWFC tower rise as warm amber forms in the haze — modern and historic occupying one frame without apology. Two or three stray hairs displaced by the rooftop afternoon breeze, natural unplanned imperfection, not geometrically symmetrical. Warm low-angle golden hour sunlight from the side, amber light catching her cheekbones, the top of a bare shoulder, and the gold chain — long shadows from the window frame across her forearm. Gentle and warm, quiet contentment — the Shanghai girl's private pleasure of a summer evening seen from above the lane. Subtle ISO 400 film grain in shadow areas, photographic noise texture not CG render smoothness. Aspect ratio 2:3. No watermark, no text overlay, not cartoon, not digitally painted, not illustration, not anime.