Tato | Black Tiled Pool: Coconut Grove, Steps, and Dark Water

A rectangular swimming pool lies on a gentle slope in a coconut grove. The pool bottom is tiled with dark tiles, so the water surface is not the common lake blue, but closer to dark green and black, like a polished stone slab, perfectly reflecting the trunks of the coconut trees and the sky. One end of the pool connects to a wide granite staircase leading downwards; the staircase is deliberately oversized, also serving as seating for sea viewing. Surrounding it are dark wooden pavilions, gray slate paving, and straight coconut tree trunks, with no flowerbeds or lawns. Low-angle light in the evening. Shot from the top of the staircase along the long axis of the pool, with the reflection on the dark water surface and the distant sea on the same axis. Avoid: changing the pool bottom to light color, adding colorful parasols and inflatable toys, planting flowering shrubs, water surface being disturbed and reflections not visible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座長方形泳池躺在椰子園的緩坡上,池底貼的是深色磁磚,水面因此不是常見的湖水藍,而是接近墨綠與黑,像一塊被磨亮的石板,把椰子樹的樹幹與天空完整地照回來。池的一端接一道寬闊的花崗岩階梯往下走,階梯的尺度刻意做大,兼作看海的座位。周圍是深色木構的涼亭、灰色石板鋪面與筆直的椰子樹幹,沒有花壇也沒有草坪。傍晚的低角度光線。從階梯頂端沿著池的長軸拍攝,深色水面的倒影與遠方海面在同一條軸線上。避免:池底改為淺色、加入彩色遮陽傘與充氣玩具、種植開花灌木、水面被打亂看不見倒影。