L'Instant où le Soleil Scintille

Documentary photograph capturing the exact split-second the sun flickers off over [a busy city avenue]. Real daylight collapses into sudden, impossible darkness: streetlights half-ignited mid-boot, car headlights flaring weakly, and all shadows disappearing into a flat void. In the next split second, intense daylight detonates back into place, casting razor-sharp, violent cutout shadows. Birds pause mid-air, vehicles screech to an abrupt halt, and the far horizon faintly glows with a residual deep-red afterimage burned into the upper atmosphere. Handheld live news-broadcast camera aesthetic, realistic optical lens flare, micro-grain, authentic global illumination physics, atmospheric scattering, neutral photojournalistic color science, sharp focus.