Salt Evaporation Ponds
Above is the title page for the new portfolio of the same name. I had seen these ponds from the air on a commercial flight landing at the San Francisco Aiport several years ago and thought it would be wonderful if I could photograph them. It is a little tricky as the ponds often are in the landing path for jets coming in to land. I found that if we stayed below 1500 feet or so we were okay. So that's just what we did, flying under the big jets flight path in their approach to land.
It was dead calm, and the flight itself was smooth so the files from this shoot are exceptional. The Cargill Co. owns and works these ponds to make sea salt, the minerals in the water making different varieties.
The full portfolio is now on the site: here.
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Salt Lake Utah
I made these in September, 2015 on a one week trip to Salt Lake City to yes, make these pictures. I found a pilot and we took several trips over the lake.
They now (early 2016) are in two forms, as a 30x 24 inch portfolio that has all these in it, printed on Epson's Exhibition Fiber Paper and also there are four that are printed either as tripychs or as single image prints framed 47 x 36 inches.
Salton Sea, CA 2012
I made these pictures in the winter of 2012. Although the use of color in this way isn’t new I wanted to emphasize the bizarre color of the bodies of water near the edge of the lake. The Salton Sea is a man made disaster of epic proportions and I felt an unconventional approach was appropriate here.
The prints are 21 x 14 inches
Salton Sea, CA 2013
The world's shortest series? Cerntainly my shortest series. These six come from a trip to the Salton Sea in February, 2013.
Color files turned into black and white with a little warmth added in. This is the second body of work to come out of the Salton Sea as I made the group http://www.nealrantoul.com/projects/salton-sea-ca-2012 last year.
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