The Potter’s New Mug

Quiet environmental portrait photograph of an original 62-year-old male ceramic artist in a small working pottery studio. Salt-and-pepper beard, indigo denim apron over an off-white shirt, clay-dusted hands. He sits beside a stopped pottery wheel and carefully attaches one small handle to a freshly thrown mug, concentrating on the contact point. Shelves of unfinished neutral clay vessels form soft horizontal lines behind him. Three-quarter view, both hands and mug sharply legible, medium framing with a generous dark upper-left area. Cool north-window light models the face, a warm reflected patch illuminates the clay. Rich skin texture, lived-in clothing, no fashion retouching, plausible pottery technique. Vertical 3:4 composition. Generate one complete original image at native 2K resolution, with clear fine detail and no watermark, signature or unintended extra text.