Dead Sea Salt Geometry — Dawn Sunrise Flats
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The Dead Sea salt pan photographed at first light — hexagonal salt crystal formations extending across the hyper-saline foreground as the sun clears the Jordanian mountains, the still water surface reflecting pink and gold.
Description
The Dead Sea’s salt formations are the result of continuous evaporation from the world’s saltiest natural body of water — 34% salinity produces metre-thick salt crusts on the Israeli shore that crystallise in geometric patterns visible from the surface and from orbit. This image was made from the Israeli shore at Ein Bokek before sunrise, the low- angle light raking across the hexagonal salt polygon formations in the foreground and illuminating their crystalline edges in warm gold while the still water beyond reflects the pink and orange sky. The Jordanian mountains across the Dead Sea are silhouetted 15 kilometres away. Shot with a 16mm ultra-wide at f/11, the foreground salt geometry is sharp from 20 centimetres to the horizon, the sky gradient completing the composition.
