Feather Duster Worm Fanning in Blue Water

Sunlight falls through the clear blue water, illuminating a feather duster worm emerging from its calcified coral tube. The creature's feathery crown spreads outward in a fan of delicate, translucent white plumes that ripple gently in the current. Behind the subject, a textured coral wall provides a rough, brownish backdrop, while the distant water fades into a soft blue haze filled with suspended plankton. The light creates bright highlights along the edges of the worm's filaments, revealing their fine, hair-like structure against the darker reef. A shallow depth of field blurs the background coral into a smooth wash of color, keeping the focus sharp on the intricate details of the worm's feeding tentacles. at the edge is a tiny, shimmering particle of plankton caught in a beam of light just beyond the worm's rightmost plume.