Salt ponds

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…

"Salt Works" is a new photo book by Tom Hegen, which features aerial photos of salt mines around the world.

Bright pond pockets of color are caused by micro-algae living within them. The varities in each pond are determined by their tolerance to salinity, & the colors are reactions to salt levels. Ponds cover an array of hues from bright green, where low salinity green algae grows, to a coral pink or red hue algae from high salt. Tiny brine shrimp cast an orange sheen. Weather affects the colors, but their ever-changing pigments always stand out from the sky, & are a visual marker for astronauts.

Roughly 200 km northwest of the city of Agadez, in northern Niger, lies a tiny village of around 50 families called Teguidda-n-Tessoumt. The...

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

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…

Here it is, almost done.