Striped by Dramatic Venetian Blinds Shadows

In an extreme close-up shot (ECU), striped by dramatic Venetian blinds shadows, a young adult literature and philosophy author-poet-thinker's weary, unadorned-by-eyewear face, etched with an early 20th-century burden, draws intimately close to an Airedale, its characteristic beard and mustache a tactile flurry of hard wiry outercoat texture against their skin, the dog's dark small eyes and wet black nose pigmentation mere inches away, all intensely silhouetted by strong backlight and softened by diffused ambient light with a cool color temperature, rendering the distant rolling hills of tall grass under a vast cloudy sky into a deeply blurred abstraction, framed with an asymmetrical balance composition informal.