HAUNTED Painted on Weathered Planks Across a Misty Lawn

Seven weathered grey planks with moss and rust nail heads lie in a row on dew-wet grass, each bearing one faded white painted capital letter spelling HAUNTED, with fallen oak leaves and a black crow at the lower right.

Prompt

A real photograph in the environmental genre, captured on a full-frame digital sensor with a 35mm lens at f/8 for deep contextual sharpness front to back and fine natural grain. A single broad late-afternoon sun key from high camera-right slants downward, settling into soft lengthening shadows with gentle ground-bounce lift in the shade, finished in a warm natural grade with lifelike colour and clear airy midtones. Wide 16:9 frame. Seen from directly overhead on a misty dew-wet lawn at dawn, seven weathered grey wooden planks lie on the grass and each plank carries one painted-out, faded white capital letter, together spelling a word in a straight row across the middle of the frame, with a single black crow standing on the grass at the lower right. Moss grows along the plank edges and a few fallen oak leaves lie beside them. The row of planks fills the middle two thirds of the frame with even grass around it. Cool pearl-grey dawn light with fine mist hanging low over the grass, silver-grey weathered wood stained with rust at the nail heads, deep green grass and a soft long shadow beside each plank. The word "HAUNTED" appears once, spelled by seven planks each bearing one capital letter H, A, U, N, T, E and D in order from left to right, each letter in faded white paint with a flat blocky letterform covering most of the plank's face. The wording appears as given and no other text appears anywhere.
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