# Reading by the Cove

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Avatars (@library.avatars)](/@library.avatars.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, calm
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Subject:
{subject}

Main Subject:
A full-body photo of a single woman sitting sideways on a wooden chair in a wooden doorway open to the sea, looking back while holding an open paperback book. Behind her, a transparent cove, rocky areas, pines, and small wooden buildings spread out.

Person/Expression:
Torso facing the sea to the left, with her face looking back at the camera over her shoulder, gazing softly with brown eyes and smiling. A slender oval face with a small jaw, rounded almond eyes, thin parallel eyebrows, a straight nose, and pale coral lips. Naturally light-makeup fair skin. Her {hair_color} has thin bangs down and flows in loose waves to the middle of her back.

Clothing/Pose:
{clothing}. Thin shoulder straps and an underband at the back, with matching bottoms visible. Sitting on a wooden chair with a backrest, knees bent, and bare feet extended toward the doorway on the left. Supporting the open book in front of her chest with both hands.

Background/Lighting:
A shoji-style sliding door on the far left, a wooden pillar and white plaster wall on the far right. The central background features a blue-green cove, reefs, pine branches, a small wooden building on the opposite shore, and a distant horizon. Soft, warm direct sunlight enters from the top left, casting distinct shadows on the person, floor, and walls.

Composition/Camera:
A 3:4 vertical environmental portrait captured from a horizontal eye level inside the room, showing the entire doorway and head to toe. The wooden frame borders the sides, with the person and chair in the bottom half center, and the book and face near the center. Focus on the person while retaining the outline of the cove with a medium depth of field.

Texture/Style:
A peaceful photorealistic live-action photograph. High-definition depiction of wood, rattan seat, paper, skin, and transparent seawater, naturally contrasting the honey-colored interior with the blue-green sea.

Negative:
Do not change the over-the-shoulder look back to a front-facing seated position; do not close the book.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{subject}` | subject | Reading overlooking the cove |
| `{hair_color}` | hair color | dark brown long hair |
| `{clothing}` | clothing | Pale yellow and white fine checkered bikini swimsuit |

## About

A GPT Image 2 prompt for a peaceful environmental portrait of a woman reading a book in a wooden doorway overlooking a cove.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.avatars on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/reading-by-the-cove-fk8bce
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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