Woman in Doorway

A realistic street-photography fashion image captured 'across the street' in Sofia, early spring 2025, late morning. The light outside the grey municipal building is pale and flat, casting long reflections on the wet pavement after a drizzle. A middle-aged woman in a dull beige overcoat stands just beyond the entrance, cigarette in hand, her posture slouched with quiet resignation. Her expression is blank, unimpressed — the kind of face that’s seen too many forms, too many Mondays. A plastic ID badge swings from her neck; her hair is pinned carelessly, a few strands clinging to her cheek in the damp air. She smokes quickly, eyes fixed nowhere, as if counting the minutes until her lunch break begins. Behind her, the building’s grim façade looms — chipped paint, flickering fluorescent light spilling through dusty windows. Captured on a Canon R5 with RF 50 mm f/1.8 at f/2.2, 1/640 s, 14-bit dynamic range, 70 MP resolution, muted 5500 K daylight, soft vignetting, faint Portra 400 grain, and subdued tonality — a candid portrait of weary routine in Sofia’s quiet bureaucracy.