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A black and white vintage photo shows a young woman relaxing in a lounge chair on a balcony with patterned tiles and railings, overlooking trees.

A black and white vintage photo shows a young woman relaxing in a lounge chair on a balcony with patterned tiles and railings, overlooking trees.

There is a woman here. A young woman. She is sitting on a balcony in a lounge chair with her feet up on the railing. She is dressed in long clothes and has flip-flops on her feet. Apart from the chair, the balcony is empty and has tiles with a pattern of circles and diamonds. Behind, you can see a door with a large glass window open to the room, and large windows that look out from it. The room is dark, and the windows are light. The balcony railing is light, and so is the fabric that covers it from the outside, while outside the balcony the light is darker, and you can see plants. It is a black and white photo, and it is printed on small paper, with wavy edges. There is one brown spot in the center of the photo, some kind of damage. There is nothing written on the back. Let's start from the end. This is clearly an old photo. Its size and printing refer to a period several decades ago. Both the fact that it is in black and white, and what is photographed in it, look like a house from the past: painted floors, which must have been colorful, the curved wall of the balcony railing, the doors, the windows, the easy chair, and even the clothes the woman is wearing. The curtains too, with a line pattern that reminds us of happier times, perhaps the seventies? It would have been interesting to see this photo in color. The flip-flops remind us that it is probably summer, and the light to almost burnt parts of the photo echo the feeling. It is clear that this photo was taken with a See more