Salt ponds

Photographer Benjamin Grant has created a pretty cool project called Daily Overview, in which every day he shares some of the most jaw-dropping satellite photos

These landscapes look like abstract paintings but they're actually photos taken from a bird's-eye view.

dead sea salt ponds

Photographer David Burdeny, whose photo of a towering iceberg we featured last month, has been working on another large-scale photography project. Burdeny began the series SALT: Fields, Plottings and Extracts in 2015, using aerial photography to explore some of the world’s most vibrant salterns in Utah, Mexico, and Australia. Gazing upon the images it’s difficult to determine whether the expressive boxes of color are produced with a camera or paintbrush, or if the gestures were made by hand…

Color + Design Blog / The Colors Of Salt Evaporation Ponds by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers

This session is a continuation of my project to take baseline photographs of the current landscape in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve’s Phase II project area. This next phase of salt pond restoration is located just south of Phase I, incorporating the area between Old Alameda Creek and the Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel. The area is currently dominated by diked ponds that are remnants of over a century of salt production. Over the next few years, many of these ponds will become…

Salt evaporation ponds, also called salterns, are shallow artificial ponds designed to extract salts from sea water. To make it's sea salt, many companies in Australia are using a method called "solar evaporation". Solar salt is produced by the action of …

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Alviso Slough salt ponds, south of San Francisco. Shot from airplane flying to SFO.

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