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Image / 3,072 x 2,048 JPEG (1.5 MB)

Title

Rustic Grapefruit Still Life on Wooden Table

Short description

A warm, rustic still life featuring ripe grapefruits in a wooden bowl with juicy ruby-red slices arranged on a weathered table.

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This site offers high-quality images for free download. Unfortunately, automated programs (often called “bots”) sometimes try to download large numbers of files all at once. Unlike real visitors, these programs can request hundreds or even thousands of large files in minutes.

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The long version

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This website provides high-quality images that are meant to be accessed by real people. Unfortunately, there are automated tools on the internet designed to copy websites by downloading large amounts of content very quickly. These tools can request hundreds or even thousands of large files in a short period of time — far more than any normal visitor ever would.

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