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

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…

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 …

dead sea salt ponds

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

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.

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

There are some places on this magical planet that leave your jaw on the ground, whilst you drag it along like an old car dragging a broken bumper. The Maras Salt Ponds, located in the ancient Inca Sacred Valley (we are happy to say), is one of such places. Over the past two and a half years, we have traveled to 41 countries, and we’ve been fortunate enough to pick up our jaws off the floor, at least a few times.