Vintage Desert Refuge Road Sign
A retro cinematic desert roadside scene centered on a weathered custom refuge sign, useful for nostalgic travel, concept art, or poster imagery.

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Create a cinematic vintage roadside photograph in a sun-bleached desert, composed in a wide 16:9 frame with a large weathered motel-style sign dominating the left half of the image and a small white stucco refuge chapel or cabin on the right. The main sign is mounted on two rough wooden posts and has exactly three stacked text panels: a cream cloud-shaped top panel with large cursive script reading {argument name="top sign text" default="Curious"}, a turquoise middle panel with huge off-white block letters reading {argument name="main sign text" default="REFUGE"}, and a faded gray bottom panel with handwritten cursive reading {argument name="bottom slogan" default="Don’t Let Your Dreams Be Dreams."}. Make the sign rusty, chipped, dusty, and slightly faded, with a nostalgic 1960s American desert-road aesthetic. In the background include exactly five smaller roadside signs: one colorful stacked sign far left, one red-and-white yield-style arrow sign, one small black double-arrow direction sign, one blurred orange-and-white sign near the center, and one small yellow sign farther back. Set the scene among dry sand, scrub grass, spiky desert plants, and several Joshua-tree-like branches behind the main sign. The right-side building should be simple, bright white, overexposed by harsh sunlight, with a steep roof, two chimneys, a dark doorway, and desert plants along its base. Use a pale blue sky with wispy clouds, warm golden haze, shallow depth of field, analog film grain, scratches, dust specks, faded colors, slight vignetting, and a dreamy retro travel-postcard look. Avoid modern cars, people, logos, or crisp digital sharpness.
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