**Prompt for the Illustration:**

At the top of the illustration image, *“Happy B’day, Uncle Iain — Hope You Reel In Some Fossilised Fun!”*

Create a surreal illustration of an elderly man with striking white hair and a short white beard, dressed in a Victorian-era fishing outfit made of dinosaur bones and ancient fossils. He’s standing ankle-deep in a crystal-clear lake that ripples like molten glass, using a fishing rod made from a spiral ammonite shell and driftwood. Instead of fish, prehistoric trilobites, ancient seashells, and small fossilised creatures dangle midair on glowing fishing lines as if swimming through time.

Behind him, massive cliffs made of layered fossil strata curve impossibly into the sky like the ribs of a long-dead giant whale, and surreal skeletal birds made of stone and bone wheel through an opalescent candy-coloured sky. Off to one side, a floating hot-air balloon shaped like a smiling dinosaur head carries a birthday cake fossilised in amber.

Everything hums with a dreamlike, mystical glow, blending absurdity with an air of magical archaeology.

Generated with these themes: Man with white hair and short white beard fishing and looking for fossils.

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