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My wife photographing the huge piles of natural sea salt, harvested in the salines of Es Trenc, Mallorca, Spain.
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Autumn is the best time to watch the sea salt harvest.
Each year more than 10.000 tons of natural salt are produced in this region of Mallorca, from the best mediterranean seawater coming from the nearby Es Trenc beach.
Salt lamps and products purify the air and are known to help relieve symptoms of asthma, sinus and other allergies. The nature of the salt is that as it gets warm, it omits Negative ions into the air. These negative ions are the ones that clean the air. As manufacturer of Himalayan Crystal Rock Salt Products
Indus Valley Crafts offer a vast range of salt products in following catagories: Lamps, Candle holders, Aroma lamps, Bath salts, food salts, Salt Crockery, Tiles & Bricks.
That's not ice. It's salt.
Have you ever wondered where your table salt comes from?
Bristol Lake — just south of Route 66 and Amboy, California — is a Mojave Desert playa lake with a surface about 600 feet above sea level. The surface of the lake is composed of sand, clay, and gypsum. Halite, also known as sodium chloride or NaCl, is a mineral occuring as a crystal body underneath the surface. It is actually a fairly high-grade halite deposit.
The surface material is relatively thick at the northern end of the lake. However, at the southern end the thickness rarely exceeds three feet. Most of the mining of the salt takes place at the southern end. Even after all the salt that has been mined over the years, there is an estimated 60 million tons of salt still out there.
The halite layer has an average thickness of five feet. Below that layer is a layer of clay about eight to ten feet thick, then another halite layer about five feet thick.
The National Chloride Company of America mines the salt out here. They have seven employees. The majority of their product will be showing up in your neighborhood soon — not on your table, though, on your streets for de-icing.
National Chloride Company of America
Amboy Rd
Amboy, CA 92304
(562) 926-3712
GPS Coordinates:
N 34°28'14" W 115°44'31"
N 34.4705 W 115.7418
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Salt Art, salt drawings of Marvel super heroes. Salt art, try it yourself ;D !
Watch the Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ9VaK3DrdQ&list=PL3gRhsFjneo...
The hotel where we ate lunch had this stylish salt and pepper shaker. It was very unusual and cool looking, so I shot a picture.
Woman walking on a spit of land extending out into shallow salt water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in BLM's Special Recreation Management Area west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Woman walking on a spit of land extending out into shallow salt water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in BLM's Special Recreation Management Area west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Badwater is the deepest point of Death Valley (and the continental U.S.), and where all the rainwater falling in its drainage basin collects, whether getting there as surface runoff or groundwater. Because of mechanical and chemical weathering, surface runoff picks up fine-grained particles (clay and silt) and dissolved ions (salts) from the outcropping rocks. Since Death Valley (and most of the other basins in the Basin and Range desert) has no communication with the ocean, this water stands still at the bottom of the basin, and that is when the clay and silt settle, leaving behind a layer of mud. Eventually, the high summer temperatures in the desert (up to 55°C/130°F) cause the water to evaporate. Evaporation progressively concentrates the dissolved ions up to the point of causing salt precipitation. While the most common salt is table salt, or halite (NaCl), others, including gypsum and borates, are found. The crust of white materials visible in the picture is mostly table salt. The pool of water to the right is a sort of exception; we are at the edge of the basin, and water wells up from a freshwater spring. This water moves much more slowly and has not been concentrated while moving underground. Once it comes at the surface, it dilutes the water in the basin, creating a small pond at its edge, where some extreme-conditions bacteria seem to be thriving.
Badwater
Death Valley National Park, California
I like the way these salt pseudo-stalactites look with the mountains in the background.
Wait.. aren't stalactites supposed to be hanging from a ceiling? And aren't they mainly made of calcium carbonate or gypsum? Yes, but..
This is actually a broken fragment of the ceiling of a cracked salt (halite) ridge, turned upside down. So these are effectively pseudo-stalactites. Their size does not exceed 6-7 cm, or 2-3 inches, in this image. They are very fragile, a very temporary feature of the California desert. And yes, they are made of table salt, or halite, which explains why we do not see them around: they would dissolve in presence of minimal amounts of water. It is not a case that of these three chemical sedimentary rocks (calcium carbonate or calcite, gypsum and halite) the last two are collectively called "evaporites": they would only form upon evaporation of water, as it happens so frequently in the desert.
Trona, California
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Table salt crystals are forming from that oversaturated solution that is the water at Lake Bonneville. Water is still visible here and there in this image, but the shining of the crystals is typical of table salt (or halite, NaCl). A few of these crystals have a visible cubic appearance but most did not have a chance to grow steadily.
Bonneville Salt Flats
Wendover, Utah
Woman walking on a spit of land extending out into shallow salt water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in BLM's Special Recreation Management Area west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
2011-05-31
Rideau Centre
The vignetting is Very Real, folks
EDIT: cropped per Reinhold's suggestion
Yes, I waited for her to get to that part of the spiral before snapping.
part of a mini-film-o-rama with Amanda before my day-trip to Montréal. This is my first attempt at developing ISO400+ film with Reinhold's Caffenol C-H + iodised salt recipe. I may have overdeveloped by about 3 mins here.
Olympus XA
Arista Premium 400 (aka Kodak Tri-X)
Caffenol C-H, see caffenol.blogspot.com for more info
This is what happens when you trap me in my studio and don't let me go outside.
I really hope it gets warmer soon!
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Woman walking on a spit of land extending out into shallow salt water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in BLM's Special Recreation Management Area west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
As part of the lab, the students had to create sodium chloride, or, table salt. Be warned, I wouldn't use this salt to season my food!
Raw food composition - yellow tagliatelle in a clay pot with a flour and eggs placed on a wooden tray on a bright background.
Taken with an inverted 50mm f/1.4 stuck onto the front of a 70-200 f/2.8L IS using ring flash adapters and a Canon 77mm UV filter.
#365Project: To take with a grain (pinch) of salt in this case Sea Salt (2010.05.12) I darken the shadows a touch because it was looking to pale.
Prime 100.0mm 2.8L
1/4s f/22.0 ISO: 400 @sharkbayte
Parents and kids can have fun together during a whole-morning experience of salt collecting. Yes, it would be easier to buy the salt at a grocery store, but that would not compare to wading in the red saline waters, watch your dad and mom dig in the salt and develop a light salt crust on their skin, and then be able to take your own salt cubes home with you.
Trona, California
Sign warning to Watch for Snakes & Scorpions at Grassy Mountain Rest Area along Interstate 80 Eastbound, Utah, USA
Nikon FM | Nikkor-H 50mm f/2 | Ilford HP5 Plus [Exp. 2006] | E.I. 160 ASA | Caffenol-C-M-(+i)
Dev.: Caffenol-C-M-(+i)
250ml Distilled Water
13.5g Sodium Carbonate
4g L-Ascorbic Acid
10g Instant Coffee (Nescafe Sunrise - Coffee 60% + Chicory 40%)
2.5g Iodised Salt
19°C | 15' 30" - 10 inversions - 1st minute + 1 inversion every minute
Stop: Tap Water (Potable/Treated) + Pinch of Citric Acid - 3'
Fix: Tap Water (Potable/Treated) + Hypo - 10'
Wash: Plain Water (Untreated) + Ultra-diluted Gylcerine - 15'
Scan: Epson V700 | 16-bit B&W | 1200 dpi | Minimal cleaning & Re-sizing.
bulldozer on one of the salt piles, making pretty patterns... Less than 5% of Cargill's salt goes toward table-salt, but that supplies ALL the tablesalt for the western US...
Salt water evaporation ponds of the Morton Salt Works on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Salt plant is on the upper left.
Silver Island Range reflecting in salty water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, which is BLM land west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Woman walking on a spit of land extending out into shallow salt water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in BLM's Special Recreation Management Area west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
118 Pictures in 2018 #110: Periodic Elements
Okay, so technically this is NaCl which is a combination of two of the elements on the periodic table. I'm going with it, though, as I have struggled with this particular challenge for weeks. It's the best I can do.
Silver Island Range reflecting in salty water at the Bonneville Salt Flats, which is BLM land west of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA