Prismatic aerial imagery, #nofilter.
Before tech became the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest export, salt was the primary industry. Eighty percent of the Bay’s natural wetlands were turned into salt mines, and they remain today dotting the waterfront like a patchwork of surrealist paintings. Julieanne Kost–a photographer and digital image evangelist at Adobe–has been documenting aerial images of the ponds, which turn brilliant shades of purple, red, and orange. Together, they look nothing like the sprawling industrial operation that they are.