23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Bands of Salt
Photographed from a small aircraft over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, evaporation ponds and dikes divide the landscape into long vertical bands of pale salt, bare earth and coloured brine. Small piles of harvested salt repeat along the edges, broken by canals and tracks where machinery has passed. The scene turns a working industrial site into a stripped-down arrangement of lines and tones.
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 08.2025 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2025 |
| Photo Location: | Utah, United States of America |
| Copyright: | © Alex Visbal |