An early seventeenth-century pirate captain stands braced on the deck of a weathered wooden ship with a fierce, furious expression, long dark hair whipped by the wind beneath a battered tricorn hat adorned with tattered feathers and a thick beard framing his intense face as he wears an ornate gold-embroidered naval coat layered with worn leather belts securing twin flintlock pistols, detailed rigging and furled sails surrounding him in silhouette against storm-laced clouds while golden shafts of sunlight pierce drifting mist and ocean spray catches the light as the turbulent sea churns beyond the rails, captured in dramatic cinematic nautical lighting with epic storm-charged atmosphere using a wide-angle lens and modern high-resolution digital cinematography
