One colossal teasel head stands alone on a low rise, the size of a grain silo, its whole surface an armour of hundreds of fine curved spines packed in tight spiral rows, dry and bristling, the stem ribbed and thorned. It fills the upper two thirds. Every spine tip sharp and separately lit, the far hills plain and calm. The field around it is deeply saturated high-chroma tan-vermillion sorrel packed to every edge, under a light sky azure. One figure alone in olive stands at the lower left, tiny. Hard high sun from the right. The camera pushes in slowly and steadily, nothing else moves. crystal-clear air, no haze, deeply saturated high-chroma colour, hard high sun, very high contrast with deep black shadow and clean bright highlight both present, no film grain