A mint-green personnel office on an overcast afternoon. A Black woman in her thirties with a full copper-auburn natural afro and an oversized cream bouclé cardigan sits low at a pale birch desk. Opposite her, raised so his eyeline sits above hers, a real adult blue-grey British Shorthair with copper eyes sits in a pink and red striped bolster cat bed. A lilac silicone placemat with a lilac slanted steel bowl on the desk, a pastel ribbon wand lying on the floor, ivory filing cabinets, a framed chart on the wall headed ANNUAL REVIEW — HUMAN.

7000K overcast skylight through a large window, Kodak Portra 400 pulled one stop, flat contrast, lifted blue-grey shadows, cream highlights, mint and ivory surfaces, her skin and copper hair the only warmth in the room, blacks neutral. Spherical 40mm, eye level, T4, light 1/8 diffusion. Real fleece, silicone, brushed steel and birch grain. Photoreal, no stylization.

No golden hour, no warm key light, no orange and teal grade, no crushed blacks, no HDR, no glossy sheen, no human-like cat posture, no costumes or collars.