Images from the American West: Salt Flats

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Salt Flats

Salt Flats

Location: Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California
Date: 16 March 2005
Camera: Canon EOS 10D
Lens Focal Length: 21mm
Shutter Speed: 1/20
Aperture: f/16.0
ISO: 100
Due to the winter's heavy rains most of Badwater Basin was underwater, something I've never seen in all of my visits to Death Valley. Only at the edges of the basin, where the salt formations were most built-up, was there no standing water.