Eagle Shelters Her Eaglets from a Lion Below

Prompt

Psalm 17: "Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, from the wicked that oppress me... like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places." On a high rocky ledge of a cliff in the Judean wilderness, a great golden eagle spreads her broad wings protectively over her two downy eaglets in their nest of sticks, her fierce eye watchful. The mother bird and her young are large and central, her wings filling the upper frame and glowing in the warm late-afternoon sun. Far below at the foot of the cliff, a young lion crouches among the rocks, looking up hungrily but unable to reach them. Clear golden sky. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.