Cut-Paper Shadow Box of a Coral Reef Aquarium

Prompt

A museum-quality photograph of a deep wooden shadow box hanging on a pale grey gallery wall, seen straight on at eye level, 16:9 landscape composition with the box filling most of the frame. Inside the box is a layered cut-paper diorama of a coral reef aquarium, made of about twelve hand-cut paper layers spaced a few millimeters apart so each layer casts a soft shadow on the one behind it. The back layers are smooth gradients of turquoise and deep teal paper suggesting open water, with faint wavy cut-outs of light rays; middle layers hold silhouettes of distant coral in muted blue-green; the front layers are rich and colorful: branching coral in coral pink and salmon, a round brain coral in ochre with a carved maze pattern, a fan coral in violet with delicate lace-like cut holes, swaying sea grass in two greens, and a bright magenta anemone with fringed tentacles cut in fine strips. A single small yellow fish with a thin black stripe and a tiny punched eye swims near the anemone, slightly raised on its own layer. Columns of small circular bubbles, punched from white and pale aqua paper, rise on the right. A sandy floor of textured cream paper with a few tiny cut shells runs along the bottom. The box frame is natural oak, about 8 cm deep, with a clean inner white mat and a sheet of museum glass showing only a faint reflection at one corner. Soft directional light from the left side lights up the paper edges and creates crisp, layered shadows inside the box, emphasizing depth; the paper fibers, cut edges, and slight curl of thin pieces are visible. Calm, wondrous mood, true colors, craft and fine-art photography, sharp focus across the whole diorama. No text, no letters, no labels, no signature, no watermark, no people.

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Quality checklist

• ✓ Describes the subject: yes
• ✗ Names a style: no
• ✓ Specifies lighting: yes
• ✓ Specifies camera or composition: yes
• ✓ Sets quality or detail: yes
• ✓ Gives size, duration or parameters: yes

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