28-05-2022 - Upfest 2022 A woman laying back whilst holding a bunch of flowers and seemingly conducting something by Ian Roberston Salt aka Anthroe © Paul Box

27-05-2022 - Upfest 2022 A woman laying back whilst holding a bunch of flowers and seemingly conducting something by Ian Roberston Salt aka Anthroe © Paul Box

24-03-2022 - New Mexico, USA-United Salt Corporation harvesting salt from 2000 acre salt lake bed © Jim West

24-03-2022 - New Mexico, USA-United Salt Corporation harvesting salt from 2000 acre salt lake bed © Jim West

24-03-2022 - New Mexico, USA-United Salt Corporation harvesting salt from 2000 acre salt lake bed © Jim West

24-03-2022 - Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA-Intrepid Potash plant, Pile of salt © Jim West

24-03-2022 - New Mexico, USA-Intrepid Potash evaporation ponds. Brine is pumped from underground and the water is evaporated in these ponds. Dye is added to shorten the evaporation time. © Jim West

16-03-2022 - Cherokee, Oklahoma, USA-Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. Great Salt Plains Lake © Jim West

16-03-2022 - Freedom, Oklahoma, USA-Cargill Solar Salt Plant ponds, naturally salty water is pumped from Cimarron River into shallow ponds, where the water is evaporated. © Jim West

16-03-2022 - Freedom, Oklahoma, USA-Cargill Solar Salt Plant ponds, naturally salty water is pumped from Cimarron River into shallow ponds, where the water is evaporated. © Jim West

16-03-2022 - Freedom, Oklahoma, USA. Plainview Brine #1 tanks of heavy brine water. Brine, also called produced water, is a byproduct of oil and gas extraction. © Jim West

28-06-2021 - New Mexico, Eagle Ranch. Workers salting, roasting pistachio nuts using a rotating drum to add salt and other flavors to the pistachios. Heart of the Desert pistachios © Jim West

10-05-2021 - USA: Lorries loading, Detroit Salt Company rock salt mine. The mine produces road deicing salt from 100 miles of underground passages spread over 1,500 acres. In the background is the Marathon Petrole... © Jim West

14-09-2017 - New Mexico, USA-Intrepid Potash evaporation ponds. Brine is pumped from underground and the water is evaporated in these ponds. Dye is added to shorten the evaporation time. © Jim West

18-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Dead fish on the edge of the Salton Sea, Salton City. The salt water leaves a dry crust on the soil as the sea dries up with receeding waters. On the hardpan are dead... © David Bacon

18-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Dead fish on the edge of the Salton Sea, Salton City. The salt water leaves a dry crust on the soil as the sea dries up with receeding waters. On the hardpan are dead... © David Bacon

18-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Dead fish on the edge of the Salton Sea, Salton City. The salt water leaves a dry crust on the soil as the sea dries up with receeding waters. On the hardpan are dead... © David Bacon

18-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Dead fish on the edge of the Salton Sea, Salton City. The salt water leaves a dry crust on the soil as the sea dries up with receeding waters. On the hardpan are dead... © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA Staff from the Comite Civico del Valle hoisting a flag to warn pupils and the local community of daily poor air quality, Brawley High School. The School Flag Air Quali... © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA A beekeeper, working with hives south of the Salton Sea. Bees are under stress because of increased salt dust from the receeding waters of the lake © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA A beekeeper, working with hives south of the Salton Sea. Bees are under stress because of increased salt dust from the receeding waters of the lake © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA A beekeeper, working with hives south of the Salton Sea. Bees are under stress because of increased salt dust from the receeding waters of the lake © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA A beekeeper, working with hives south of the Salton Sea. Bees are under stress because of increased salt dust from the receeding waters of the lake © David Bacon

16-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA, Constructing wetlands to remediate and suppress the rising dust from the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea. The project is on the reservation of the Torrez Martin... © David Bacon

15-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Edge of the Salton Sea, Salton City. The salt water leaves a dry crust on the soil as the sea dries up and recedes. As the sea is recedes, branches with nests of migr... © David Bacon

15-08-2017 - Coachella Valley, California, USA Maria Pozar, her daughter Jacqueline and baby Leslie, North Shore, near the receeding waters of the Salton Sea. Jacqueline suffers nose bleeds when the dust blows fro... © David Bacon

04-04-2017 - Coachella Valley California, USA The Salton Sea, an artificial sea below sea level created in the desert between the Coachella and Imperial Valleys by the accidental diversion of the Colorado River. T... © David Bacon

04-04-2017 - Coachella Valley California, USA The Salton Sea, an artificial sea below sea level created in the desert between the Coachella and Imperial Valleys by the accidental diversion of the Colorado River. T... © David Bacon

04-04-2017 - Coachella Valley California, USA The Salton Sea, an artificial sea below sea level created in the desert between the Coachella and Imperial Valleys by the accidental diversion of the Colorado River. T... © David Bacon

16-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Sister missionaries holding signs to indicate what languages they speak, Foreign language speakers offer to guide tourists around the church's Temple Square complex. © Jim West

16-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Sister missionaries holding signs to indicate what languages they speak, Foreign language speakers offer to guide tourists around the church's Temple Square complex. © Jim West

16-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Zions Bank with the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) reflected in the glass door. Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

16-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Sister missionaries holding signs to indicate what languages they speak, Foreign language speakers offer to guide tourists around the church's Temple Square complex. © Jim West

16-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Susan Newell, 67, studies a set of moose antlers while visiting the museum. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus on display in the museum's Past Worlds section. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Jars hold the museum's snake collection. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A scientist in the Paleo Prep Lab shows visitors fossils that are being prepared for... © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Skeletons of a horse and its human handler in a special exhibit on the horse. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A worker shows children rocks and fossils from the museum's collection. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah. The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. An archaeologist shows visitors artefacts from the Glen Canyon Archaeological Recover... © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A guide talks to visitors about the dinosaurs in the museum's Past Worlds exhibit. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A worker shows children rocks and fossils from the museum's collection. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A volunteer shows visitors some of the museum's fossils and bones that are not norma... © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah. The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Centre on the University of Utah campus. A boy studies the 50 million-year-old fossil of a miniature horse. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A museum volunteer works in the Paleo Prep Lab to carefully uncover a fossil. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. Visitors view a special exhibition on the horse. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A volunteer shows visitors some of the museum's fossils and bones that are not norma... © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. A volunteer demonstrates how plants are mounted for the museum's collection. © Jim West

15-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah. The Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center on the University of Utah campus. An archaeologist shows visitors artefacts from the Glen Canyon Archaeological Recover... © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - A statue of Jesus Christ in a Mormon visitor center in Temple Square, a replica of the Christus, a statue of Jesus Christ by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. With clouds, sta... © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - A display about the Book of Mormon at a Mormon visitor center in Temple Square. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), at a Mormon visitor center in Temple Square. Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormon Tabernacle, home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (lighted), with Assembly Hall in the foreground. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormons' Family History Library, where anyone is welcome to do genealogical research, it is the largest genealogical library in the world. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormon Tabernacle, home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - A statue of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), with his legal wife, Emma, in Temple Square. Smith had approximately 40 wives. Sa... © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), next to Zions Bank. Zions Bank was started by church president Brigham Young in 1873 it is now... © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), at a Mormon visitor center in Temple Square. © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormons' Handcart Pioneer Monument in Temple Square. Mormon pioneers used such carts travelling to Utah in the 1850s. Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Salt Lake City, Utah © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - A statue of Jesus Christ in a Mormon visitor center in Temple Square, a replica of the Christus, a statue of Jesus Christ by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. With clouds, sta... © Jim West

14-11-2014 - Salt Lake City, Utah - The Mormon Tabernacle, home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. © Jim West

08-11-2014 - Rainbow, breached Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - Rainbow, breached Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - A flock of Goldfinches settling on telegraph wires, Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - A flock of Starlings sitting on telegraph wires, Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - Dead tree, Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - Dead tree, Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

08-11-2014 - Dead tree, Saltmarsh, Porlock Bay, Somerset © John Harris

24-03-2013 - An Amey/Birmingham City Council gritting lorry spreading salt by ?eensbridge School ? Birmingham ? continuous snowfall disrupts travel and transport © Timm Sonnenschein

24-03-2013 - An Amey/Birmingham City Council gritting lorry spreading salt in a residential area of Birmingham ? continuous snowfall disrupts travel and transport © Timm Sonnenschein

08-11-2012 - Mobile, Alabama - A shrimp trawler on Mobile Bay. Darrell Goleman separates the shrimp from other species by putting them in a tank of salt water the shrimp tend to sink, and most of the bycatch can b... © Jim West

08-11-2012 - Mobile, Alabama - A shrimp trawler on Mobile Bay. Darrell Goleman separates the shrimp from other species by putting them in a tank of salt water the shrimp tend to sink, and most of the bycatch can b... © Jim West

03-02-2012 - Phoenix, Arizona: Tessera Solar 1.5 megawatt Maricopa Solar plant, the first of it's kind it opened in 2010 with 60 Suncatcher generators - a mirrored dish that concentrates and directs heat towards a... © Jim West

03-02-2012 - Phoenix, Arizona: Tessera Solar 1.5 megawatt Maricopa Solar plant, the first of it's kind it opened in 2010 with 60 Suncatcher generators - a mirrored dish that concentrates and directs heat towards a... © Jim West

03-02-2012 - Phoenix, Arizona: Tessera Solar 1.5 megawatt Maricopa Solar plant, the first of it's kind it opened in 2010 with 60 Suncatcher generators - a mirrored dish that concentrates and directs heat towards a... © Jim West

28-01-2012 - Calipatria, California: Dead trees on salt flat, Salton Sea. The salt encrusted flat left by the falling level of the Salton Sea. This endorheic rift lake in the Colorado Desert is about 70 metres bel... © Jim West

28-01-2012 - Calipatria, California: Dead trees on salt flat, Salton Sea. The salt encrusted flat left by the falling level of the Salton Sea. This endorheic rift lake in the Colorado Desert is about 70 metres bel... © Jim West

10-08-2011 - National Trust Holnicote Estate in Porlock, the sea has been allowed to breach the shingle ridge sea defenses. Now that land floods behind the shingle, a new saltmarsh is rapidly developing. It is an... © Paul Box

10-08-2011 - National Trust Holnicote Estate in Porlock, the sea has been allowed to breach the shingle ridge sea defenses. Now that land floods behind the shingle, a new saltmarsh is rapidly developing. It is an... © Paul Box

10-08-2011 - National Trust Holnicote Estate in Porlock, the sea has been allowed to breach the shingle ridge sea defenses. Now that land floods behind the shingle, a new saltmarsh is rapidly developing. It is an... © Paul Box

10-08-2011 - National Trust Holnicote Estate in Porlock, the sea has been allowed to breach the shingle ridge sea defenses. Now that land floods behind the shingle, a new saltmarsh is rapidly developing. It is an... © Paul Box

02-12-2010 - An Amey Birmingham City Council road gritting lorry spreading salt and grit in Birmingham © Timm Sonnenschein

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - Radioactive plutonium and americium waste from America's nuclear weapons program in TRUPACT shipping containers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Nuclear waste is shipped by t... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - A worker at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where radioactive nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program is stored in an ancient salt formation a half mile under the Chihuahuan Desert. USA © Jim West

11-10-2010 - A recharging station for miners' headlamps at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where radioactive waste from America's nuclear weapons program is stored in an ancient salt formation a half mile undergr... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - A worker pulls a cord to open an airlock at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where radioactive nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program is stored in an ancient salt... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - An RH-72B shipping container at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The container is used to transport radioactive waste from America's nuclear weapons program by truck from all ov... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Workers prepare transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The materials are stored in rooms carved out of an ancient sa... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - A tunnel at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where radioactive nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program is stored in an ancient salt formation a half mile under the... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - Containers filled with transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program await burial at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The materials are stored in rooms carved... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - Workers prepare transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Here a worker checks radiation levels... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Carlsbad, New Mexico - Workers prepare transuranic nuclear waste from Americas nuclear weapons program for long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The materials are stored in rooms carve... © Jim West

11-10-2010 - Radioactive nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program stored in an ancient salt formation a half mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. USA © Jim West