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Glass and dark water

Inside Ripley's Aquarium after the crowds thin out.

Mar '26Ricoh GR III16 photos
Many tropical fish over a coral reef in a blue tank, the rippling water surface lit above
Rush hour
A school of silvery fish drifting through a brightly lit blue tank, larger fish in the foreground
Late for lunch
A glowing pale-blue jellyfish floating alone in near-black dark water
Ghosts, drifting
A pale starfish clinging to a rocky tank wall beside a small fish, in dim brown-lit water
Lying in patience
Three tall illuminated tubes glowing green, blue, and red on a dark metal surface against black
Reactor glow
Two textured panels suspended in bright blue water, their surfaces dotted and frosted
Forbidden crackers
Two patterned lizards resting on broad green fronds over a large rock in a dimly lit terrarium
Warmer together
The pale underside of a shark seen from below against the bright blue, rippling water surface
Apex
A person's dark silhouette before a tank of glowing orange jellyfish in violet-blue light
The violet room
A lizard resting on a branch under two hanging heat lamps amid green foliage in a terrarium
Not going anywhere
A pale axolotl with feathery gills resting on sandy rock in a dark blue-lit tank, facing the glass
Monster in the deep
A single orange jellyfish with long trailing tentacles in a magenta-and-purple lit tank
Curtain call in magenta
A smiling man and woman posing together in a dark exhibit hall lit green and blue, a tank behind
Intermission
Tall strands of kelp rising through a deep blue-green tank, fish swimming among the fronds
Where the kelp thickens
A row of small white-and-blue upside-down jellyfish on the tank floor below green plants
The floor is alive
Two translucent pink jellyfish drifting against deep blue water with more jellyfish behind
Moons in blue and pink