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A Thousand Small Fish on the Reef Wall

A steep coral reef in the Red Sea, with clouds of little orange fish drifting into the blue.

Photograph · Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea, Egypt

A coral reef slopes down the left side of the picture while hundreds of small orange fish and some slender silver fish swim out into deep blue water.
Kris Mikael Krister · CC BY 3.0

Let your eyes wander

  1. Begin with the bright orange fish crowding close to the coral on the left.
  2. Among them, a few are pinker and paler than the rest.
  3. Low on the left, a cream-coloured coral spreads out like a small soft cloud.
  4. Just to its right, a speckled reddish fish rests half hidden in the coral.
  5. Through the middle, slender silver fish swim in a loose line, catching the light.
  6. Further out, the fish grow smaller and darker until they are only specks in the blue.
  7. In the top right, a few larger shapes drift quietly in the deep water.
  8. Along the very top, light from the surface makes the water a little paler.

There is no last thing to find. Look again wherever your eyes would like to rest, or close them and keep the picture.

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