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16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
A Flatland of Salt in the West

The photo was taken at the Bonneville Salt Flats about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah. The background contrasts the foreground in an extremely straight line between the shadowed mountains and the salty ground with one small salt chunk sticking upward.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2017
Date Uploaded: 09.2018
Photo Location: Utah, United States of America
Camera: iPhone 6
Copyright: © Steven Battaglia