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MAG · 20 September 2026

A Beach the Rocks Kept for Themselves

Looking down on a narrow sandy beach closed in between steep pale rocks; turquoise water on the right and a white ragged line of surf running onto the sand
Looking down on a narrow sandy beach closed in between steep pale rocks; turquoise water on the right and a white ragged line of surf running onto the sand

Photograph: MAG · Description: AI

From above everything is simpler: stone here, sand here, water here. There is one border and it is white, and the wave redraws it every few seconds, as though it had come

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