More white.
A wedding in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
The original monument to commemorate the arrival of settlers in the Great Salt Lake Valley -- white against an October sky (unretouched colors).
Even though Max already did the Salt Flats, I'm adding in a couple. This is salt foam accumulating on basalt rocks at the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake. The water has a pinkish tint because of a strange, salt-loving critter that lives in it. (The GSL is the second-saltiest body of water in the world, right after the Dead Sea. It has up to 5 times as much salt as average ocean water.)
Max called these "saltbergs" since they look like mini icebergs from a distance. This is salt foam hardened into crusts around the basalt rocks in the shallow water of the lake.
Ahhh, the trek to the Spiral Jetty. That was fun, and so will the full moon trek to the Salt Flats.
ReplyDeleteThe settlers' monument is so clear and crisp.
ReplyDeletethe wedding photo is lovely... we have many Pasifika peoples in New Zealand; this could be a wedding group from one of them - Tongan, Samoan etc. Beautiful serene feeling in the shot.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bob; I think it's that October sky behind it.
ReplyDeleteAlexia, I'm not sure about Wyoming, but Utah has lots of islanders -- Tongan and Samoan. However, these folks were definitely Mexican; they spoke Spanish with the accent common to northern and central Mexico.
Happy sigh.
ReplyDeleteSalt may destroy cars - and our health - but OMG is it lovely to shoot!
Well, the car was quite aways away from the salt here. Max and I left it up on the dirt road (16 miles of rutted trail to get to the jetty) and hiked down a quarter of a mile or so across the beach and onto the jetty itself to snap these. Trust me; you cannot drive on the jetty.
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