Salt ponds

dead sea salt ponds

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

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…

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

I have admired colors since I was a kid. I like colorful things, like line pattern on my glass and my shirts, or flowers in a garden, or fruit cocktail, and many more. I found this beautiful place …

It may look like another world, but these amazing images show the massive and bizarre looking salt flats just miles from the city of San Francisco, California.

Kylie Trisha Chenn on Instagram: “Is this really Utah!?!? Or Greenland? When people ask me why I live in the state of Utah, well... the gorgeous landscapes like this…”

Much of California’s southern Bay Area is known for expensive real estate, tech companies, and aerospace engineers — what’s not usually talked about is its salt content. Yet the salt industry has been an active part of the area for over a century. As one flies into the San Francisco airport, evidence of it appears as a richly colored quilt of briny pools in acid green, ochre, and toxic-looking reds.