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 |