Flamingos provide scale against abstract mineral deposits at 14,681 feet in Bolivia's Altiplano. Ancient minerals create soft pastels of blues, grays, and pale yellows across this extreme high-altitude ecosystem. The minerals deposited over millennia, the flamingos filtering microscopic life from alkaline waters, the thin air and intense UV creating conditions found almost nowhere else on Earth. This is what adaptation looks like when life finds ways to thrive at the edge of possibility.