Regional edgewall and living strip

Create exactly one high-detail reference photograph. This is one coherent image, without a contact sheet, labels, arrows or graphic panels.

Use photorealistic observational cinema, natural exposure and tactile material detail. Use rectilinear optics, soft highlight roll-off and very fine restrained grain. Preserve the difference between cool daylight, dry late sunlight and blue-black night; warm rooms have practical amber light. Give distant scenery atmospheric depth and keep foreground objects physically solid. People are comfortably dressed and absorbed in ordinary life. Architecture is personal and spacious. Avoid glossy resort advertising, decorative science-fiction clutter, excessive lens flare, fisheye distortion, posed glamour, captions, lettering, logos and borders.

The space habitat is a completed open bracelet 3,000,000 kilometres in diameter. Its 6,000-kilometre-wide living surface faces inward, holding land, water and atmosphere. Sloped, mostly transparent retaining walls rise 1,000 kilometres at the two lateral edges. Its exterior structural base faces vacuum. A real star outside the bracelet supplies light. The central Hub floats independently, with no spokes, and is too small to resolve in these views. There is no central sun, planet, enclosing dome or solid disk filling the opening. The spin is roughly day-long and has negligible visible rotation over a few real-time seconds.

A continent-scale portion of the habitat's living strip extends beyond the image along its length. An immense sloped translucent grey-blue edgewall meets the smooth grey exterior base in a continuous junction. On the inward side lie open atmosphere, patterned cloud, broad seas and island landmasses with connected river systems. The second lateral wall is thousands of kilometres across the strip. The walls retain the sides and leave the sky open. One transverse mountainous boundary is far along the strip. At this scale no people, individual houses or decorative road grid are visible. The terrain is part of a single physical structure, without water spilling into vacuum or a complete ring ellipse fitting in the regional view.

Make one 3:2 oblique regional photograph from outside and above a lateral wall. Smooth grey base meets a huge sloped translucent grey-blue wall at near left. Beyond the upper edge, cloud, sea and island land extend toward a distant opposite wall. Habitat continues out of frame lengthwise. The near interior is evening-dark; a far cloud patch catches natural sunlight. Keep one continuous physical base-wall-terrain topology, no complete ellipse and no foreground vehicle. Nothing at house scale is resolvable.