Salt ponds

dead sea salt ponds

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

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

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…

Imaging Salt Ponds Image: Jeffrey Myers, NASA, U.S. Forest Service

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 …

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

An aerial photography project by Tom Hegen. Limited Fine Art prints are available at www.tomhegen.com

As we were flying in to Salt Lake City, I noticed this colorful patchwork. Further investigation revealed that is a salt harvesting process: "Salt evaporation ponds are shallow artificial ponds designed to produce salts from sea water or other brines. The seawater or brine is fed into large ponds and water is drawn out through natural evaporation which allows the salt to be subsequently harvested. The ponds also provide a productive resting and feeding ground for many species of waterbirds…

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