An Olive Grower Grafts a Wild Branch Into a Tree

Prompt

Romans 11: the olive tree, "thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them." An old olive grower stands large and central beside an ancient, gnarled cultivated olive tree heavy with green and purple olives, carefully binding a young wild olive branch into a cleft in one of its living boughs with a strip of cloth, while a few broken-off branches lie on the ground at his feet. His weathered face is gentle and attentive. Bright Mediterranean sunlight filters through silver-green leaves; terraced hills behind. The grower wears a wrapped head-cloth over his hair. 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.