A coral shallows seen from just above the surface, four hundred heads of brain and staghorn coral in ochre, violet and green packed across the floor under clear turquoise water. Every coral surface held sharp. One snorkeller floats at the edge, tiny. Hard high sun. crystal-clear air, no haze, hard high sun, very high contrast with deep black shadow present, no grain. full rich colour across the whole frame with every surface carrying its own real hue, but nothing pushed to maximum intensity and nothing neon or electric, colour deep and true rather than bright, highlights clean and small with no blown-out white areas, deep shadow present