A conceptual miniature photograph on a fully transparent background, alpha equal to zero everywhere around the subject, not white, not colored, no checkerboard pattern, a real alpha channel. A short staircase rises through a square composition, and every one of its steps is made from broken stone slabs visibly repaired and stacked into stable new risers: hairline seams of pale mortar bind jagged halves into level treads, and the fractured edges still show where each stone once split. The two lowest steps rest beside a few loose failed stone fragments lying at the base, while near the top one next tread is being fitted from two matching broken halves pressed together.
Clean side view, one small-gauge miniature diorama, soft warm morning light raking across the stone. The stones are rough grey granite with chipped, fractured faces; the mortar seams are thin and load-bearing; each step sits squarely on the one below so the whole staircase reads as solid and climbable. A soft semi-transparent black shadow sits in the alpha channel directly under the base, darkest at contact, fading outward.
The whole staircase and every loose stone sit fully inside the frame with clear margin on all four sides, nothing touching or cropped by any border. Exactly one staircase and a handful of loose stones, no people, no hands, no tools, no other objects.
