A vast salt crust covers a black playa, cracked into raised hexagonal plates, every seam ridged where the crystal has pushed up and split. The plates run edge to edge to a flat horizon. Crystal ridging sharp in the foreground, the far crust smoothing to plain white. One figure alone in black walks the crust, tiny. Hard high sun, no cloud, the seams throwing fine hard shadow lines. one hue family only, near-monochrome, strong value separation, clean sharp detail edge to edge, no colour grade, no grain