Beach Chair Noon Portrait

Hot 1975 New England beach afternoon. A man in his 40s sits perfectly still in a low wooden beach chair, facing the camera dead-on, both forearms flat on the armrests, shoulders square, chin level, eyes open and looking straight into the lens. Plain unbranded pale shirt, no text anywhere in frame. Low camera height, chair centered, man occupies lower middle third. Behind him true receding depth: wet sand strip, then calm shallow water with small groups of bathers at three clearly separated distances — near, mid, far — then a flat open sea horizon line high in the frame. Palette: warm sand #E3D3A8 dominant, atlantic teal #2C6E7F water, signal red #D6453D chair fabric accent. Light: hard overhead August noon sun, even on the face, no color cast. Sharp focus front to back, f/11, no motion, no blur, nobody running, no flags, no signage, no logos, no vignette, no dark edges, no overlay. Bright and calm.