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Full-color photograph on film on the open ocean on a still, gray morning, in soft, even light, the camera low near the surface of the water, wide. A black Brabus P 900 pickup, a boxy four-door off-roader with a short open cargo bed, glossy black paint, exposed carbon-fiber wide fender flares, a carbon hood with a raised air scoop, a black grille of vertical slats with a single red accent slat and a round black badge, round LED headlights with glowing rings, a black tubular roll bar over the cargo bed, twin side-exit exhaust tips and large black multi-spoke wheels stands on a small square raft of wooden pallets and orange plastic barrels lashed together with rope, floating alone on the flat gray-green sea, the water lapping a few centimeters below its running boards. On the roof sits a Latina woman in her mid-twenties with olive skin, long wet black hair and gold hoop earrings, in a black vinyl trench coat over a red latex swimsuit and black rubber rain boots, holding a long fishing rod with the line trailing into the water, her face turned toward the horizon. A bucket with two silver fish, a red jerrycan and a folded umbrella stand in the cargo bed, and a seagull sits on the roll bar. Small waves slap against the barrels and leave white salt crusts on the black wheels. In the background, the sea runs flat to a pale horizon where a faint band of fog meets the gray sky, with only open water in every direction.