23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
The lost boat

n the Great Salt Lake, an overturned boat rests on a small patch of exposed salt, surrounded by water stained by extreme salinity and microbial blooms. The boat now sits immobile in a landscape where water no longer behaves as it once did. Photographed from above, the scene reduces the lake to color and form — a quiet marker of a system pushed past its natural rhythms, and the fading memory of a place once navigable.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2025
Date Uploaded: 11.2025
Photo Location: Utah, United States of America
Copyright: © Alex Visbal