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I love the salt of the earth,
I love the spice of life,
I love the salt of love,
I love the salt that is in you.
(Rino Gaetano)
The Wieliczka Salt Mine located in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland, lies within the Kraków metropolitan area. Opened in the 13th century, the mine produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest salt mines in operation.
Throughout, the royal mine was run by the Żupy krakowskie Salt Mines company.
The Wieliczka salt mine reaches a depth of 327 meters and is over 287 kilometres (178 mi) long.
The rock salt is naturally grey in various shades, resembling unpolished granite rather than the white or crystalline look that many visitors may expect.
In the 13th century, rock salt was discovered in Wieliczka and the first shafts were dug.
The Wieliczka mine is often referred to as "the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland". In 1978 it was placed on the original UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites. Even the crystals of the chandeliers are made from rock salt that has been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like appearance.
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Salt pans are a common sight in this region, since Tavira is so intertwined with the history of salt. The ancient technology adapted to the landscape of the Ria Formosa turns the salt pans into outdoors chemistry labs. These are an important and humanized environment for several species of birds and microscopic beings. For all these reasons we challenge you to integrate this visit. We guarantee you that you will not look at a crystal of salt the same way.
Salt extraction in Maras, Peru. This woman was still at work in the late afternoon. She gave me the chance to help her for a while. It is a hard work done by the local population collectively. Profits are distributed in proportion to the number of extraction wells that are owned. Each well produces on average between 150 and 200 kg of salt per month.
Abandoned cafe with the Guadalupe Mountains in the distance.
Just outside the community there is a dry salt pan called Salt Flat Playa or Salt Basin. It straddles the New Mexico-Texas border and is about 150 miles long, and 5 to 15 miles wide making it one of the largest gypsum playas in the United States.
I couldn't help but think about settlers from the past crossing this area and thinking they had spotted water in the valley, only to realize it was all an illusion. The salt glimmers in the sun like water. I can only imagine their reaction when they discovered it was only salt.
Salt Print. Hasselblad 501CM with 180mm CF T* and Kodak T-Max 100 (ASA 50) developed in Rodinal 1:50. Digital negative made with Pictorico Premium OHP Transparency Film. Printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag under Edwards Engineering 18x20 UV lightbox for 8 minutes. Borders masked with Scotch removable Magic Tape.
Salt Print toned with Selenium 1:50.Intrepid Mk2 8x10 with Fujinon f/5.6 300 CM-W and Ilford HP5+ developed in PMK Pyro. Digital negative made with Pictorico Premium OHP Transparency Film. Printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag under Edwards Engineering 18x20 UV lightbox.
Ruins of old Salt House at Port Eynon, Gower, South Wales. These date back to the mid 16th century, although most of the stonework is from the 18th century. Sea water was pumped up from a tank and heated to extract the salt.
I paid my first ever visit to this iconic location last week. The weather forecast was good, though with a bit of a wind, which of course is more pronounced up on the edge; my tripod even tipped over at one point, but luckily there was plenty of soft heather to cushion the fall🙏.
I’d travelled with another Tog, and after a brief stop at the Wheel Stones, we arrived here with plenty of time to spare before sunset. Another photographer was already set up when we arrived, and shortly thereafter more drifted in. It was literally everyone and their dog, as one photographer even had theirs with them (I wish mine was as well behaved so I could take her with me on jaunts).
The wind got quite brutal, necessitating higher ISOs at times to get faster shutter speeds, although this particular shot was one of the underexposed images from a bracketed set, taking advantage of the phenomenal shadow recovery of modern cameras.
With so many others competing for vantage points, trying to get a good angle clear of others, became a little challenging at times. However a great evening was had by all as we clicked and chatted away.
This was one of the earlier shots from the session, from what is probably the classic angle of this feature. I was very close to the foreground rock hence the small aperture. I later did some focus stacking, but this one actually worked out just fine.
A rainbow forms in showers of virga over the salt flats in Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, during our landscape and night photography workshop there a couple of weeks ago.
We woke before dawn to intermittent rains drops that morning, and we drove 40 miles toward the wall of black storm, counting on it to move or break up a bit. We stopped at a spot near, but not under it.
The entire view toward the rising sun was obscured with rain a short while earlier, then we had a small glowing window of sunrise light underneath, then we turned around to rainbows from the rising sun shooting over the clouds!
This image was taken just as the sun was reaching our position, you can see a trace of my shadow as the sun crested the clouds behind me.
Here’s roughly what the process of collecting salt from a dried-up lake looks like: a man in rubber boots walks onto the site (because beneath the layer of salt there’s usually a layer of stinky muck that you can sink into), then he uses a special rake to gather the salt into small piles. After that, he collects it into a sack.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen
The members of the We’re Here! group are doing the 100 Quotes Project today.
I'm in Santa Cruz, California at the beach today!
LASCIAMO IL TEXAS E IL CLAMORE DELLA BATTAGLIA DI ALAMO E CI SPOSTIAMO A NORD IN OKLAHOMA DOVE SI TROVA QUEST'AREA COMPOSTA DA UN LAGO SALATO E QUESTA LANDA SALATA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Plains_State_Park.
FOTO SCATTATA NEL 2004 CON NIKON COOLPIX
The loading docks of the salt mine Goderich as seen from across Rotary Cove.
The Goderich salt mine is the world's largest underground salt mine. The salt in mined 550 metres underneath Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada.
Great Salt Lake was much bigger until the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. When the salty water evaporated, salt remained on the ground. It has become this boundless salt pan. Bonneville Salt Flats is a small portion of the salt pan that used to be the lake. Its size is 12 miles by 5 miles at longest. The total area is 46 square miles (119km2). The maximum thickness of salt crust is 5 feet (150cm). Due to the weather, climate (Bs/semi-arid), and the surface being plain white, we were dazzled and weren't able to see ahead.
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