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Overhead aerial photograph of open Mediterranean water off Ibiza, turquoise shallows and dark patches of seagrass meadow, the surface fading to a lavender sheen toward the top of the frame.

Posidonia

Ibiza, Spain · June 2022

DJI Mavic Air 2, 5 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/15 of a second, ISO 110

No shore, no boats, no horizon. Just the meadow under the surface.

Straight down over open water, June 2022. The dark shapes are Posidonia — the seagrass meadows the Balearics are known for — and everything else is depth: turquoise where the sand is shallow, violet where the surface catches the sky. I kept the shoreline out of this one deliberately. Without a rock or a boat for scale it stops being a place and becomes a surface, and I like that you have to be told which way up it goes.