Overnight Lab Specimen Cooler with Ice Packs

Cool white light from string fixtures hangs low over a stainless steel specimen cooler resting on a stainless prep table. Inside the open cooler, white ice packs nestle beside black chain-of-custody bags marked with red tape and printed labels. The deep night settles around the surgical prep area in Winnipeg, leaving the room quiet and still. Soft reflections shimmer across the metal edges of the cooler and the plastic surfaces of the bags. A blue medical chart stands upright beside the cooler, its text sharp against the dim background. The composition balances the heavy cooler on the left third with the open space of the room on the right. A faint reflection of the string lights glides along the curved rim of the cooler's lid.