Salt ponds

Salt has been harvested in San Francisco Bay for hundreds of years, first by local Indians, then by commercial companies. In the early 1900s there were about 50 companies producing salt. In 1977 Cargill Salt Co. was the only company left. Recently, Cargil…

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.

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…

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.

Algae-colored salt ponds

Here it is, almost done.

Through the aerial photographs of ‘The Salt Series’ by Munich-based photographer Tom Hegen, the impact of human intervention on a natural landscape takes graphic, colorful...

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