Once a day, for about half an hour, a quiet beach in Japan turns into a perfect mirror.
Chichibugahama, Kagawa Prefecture. One kilometer of sand on the Seto Inland Sea.
At low tide, shallow pools of seawater remain on the flat beach. When the wind dies at sunset, those pools go
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