Comments | julibat: California's own dead sea

julibat

California's own dead sea

Apr 29, 2007 22:43

recently made a lengthy day trip around the Salton Sea: an (accidentally) man-made lake surrounded by abandoned structures from its brief hay-day as a resort spot, ramshackle RVs of some hardcore residents, and many many dead fish that apparently can't survive the growing salinity of the water. this is California's largest lake and it also happens ( Read more... )

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julibat April 30 2007, 15:08:43 UTC

thanks!

i think maybe i tweeked the color a bit far in some. but i was really having a complex about getting the jpegs to match the tiff files which had beautiful color & my mac screen is so so light that everything washes out on my monitor.

think i need to make adjustments on my mac, view them on your pc monitor and then try to fall somewhere in between. but i dunno. maybe radioactive color is good for these shots.

anonymous May 1 2007, 19:24:37 UTC

all of these photos turned out very well. this looks like a place i need to go to someday.

-david

julibat May 2 2007, 04:25:33 UTC

it is fairly desolate. not even a gas station that has a bathroom. scary.

cherryvalentino May 6 2007, 01:25:45 UTC

7, 9, 10 are my favorites. i love those crazy green ones. they're awesome, even if the brightness does hurt my eyes.

i think i'm going to try to build a pinhole camera soon. i saw some awesome instructions for a panoramic one i want to try when i grow up, too. it was in MAKE magazine. so cool.