#great salt lake utah
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Storm over Great Salt Lake
Antelope Island State Park
#photographers on tumblr#original photography#pointofview#imperfection#sunlight and shadow#storm#utah#great salt lake#cloudsandsun
163 notes
·
View notes
Text
Did you know that the famous line "And what the hell is that smell?" from 'Independence Day' was improvised by Will Smith? While filming the scene on the salt flat near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, nobody warned him about the strong odor caused by billions of decomposing brine shrimp in the lake.
x
#independence day movie#will smith#movie trivia#movie improvisation#famous movie lines#will smith improvisation#great salt lake#filming locations#behind the scenes#movie facts#brine shrimp smell#utah filming#iconic movie moments#unplanned movie lines#july 4th#independence day#fourth of july#american holiday#patriotic celebration#fireworks#american independence#us history#summer holidays#national holiday#freedom day#independence day celebrations#july 4th traditions
76 notes
·
View notes
Text
285 notes
·
View notes
Text
Dancing in a Dream
Surreal scenes at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Undoubtedly one of the strangest places on earth. A few miles down the road I was shooting at the edge of the flats, and unexpectedly sunk up to my waist in legitimate quicksand.
#photography#nature#nikon#landscape#original#photographers on tumblr#travel#art#utah#salt flats#salt lake city#america#great american west#beauty#surreal#life#earth
100 notes
·
View notes
Text
Pink Lakes, Utah
#pink lake#lakes#spiral jetty#utah#great salt lake#travel photography#amazing nature#nature#travel#travel destinations#landscape#landscape photography#sea
80 notes
·
View notes
Text
what do y’all know about the compelling nature of the Great Salt Lake
#smells like the ocean but it’s very shallow and very very very still#strange place#Utah#great salt lake#photography
17 notes
·
View notes
Text
re: the last reblog
here are some pics from the spiral jetty a couple weeks ago. the lake with its red color and thick, salty foam was more entrancing than the spiral itself, but to be fair, the spiral is less interesting when its dry.
the red color in the north of the lake comes from a form of bacteria that really likes salt. the south side of the lake gets more freshwater input, so it's a normal blue. the lake is bisected in two by a causeway built in the 50s for trains, limiting the flow of water between the north and south, which further increases the salinity of the red northern end
the water is so salty that it encrusts your feet and legs with a thin layer of salt from wading in it. a lot of the sand on the beach is also hard and crusty from salt. there's a significant number of dead bugs in the shallow waters, which likely died of (say it with me) salt. no fish live in the lake, only brine shrimp and smaller critters like the aforementioned bacteria
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Antelope Island State Park, Utah
After the rain
#photographers on tumblr#original photography#sunlight and shadow#rainbow#pointofview#landscape#utah#antelope island#great salt lake#reflections
52 notes
·
View notes
Text
Round two of Chemo Therapy is in the books and so far no new side effects. I’m still more tired than normal. Low red and white blood cell counts could be the cause of that. Might go for a short drive just to get out of the house.
#utah#nature#desert southwest#wildlife#birding#bird watching#great horned owl#owlette#salt lake city cemetery
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
An opening on the sky
Early afternoon sun seems to burn a hole in the cloud cover over Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, UT.
HDR made with Photomatix.
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Great Salt Lake, Utah
#the great salt lake#lakes#pink lake#utah#travel photography#amazing nature#travel#nature#travel destinations#beautiful nature#sea
26 notes
·
View notes
Text
#antelope island#sunset#dark skies#mosquitos#traveling#great salt lake#bison#grasslands#arid desert#too many flies#utah
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Great Salt Lake is drying up and the Republican government of Utah is doing little to save it. They constantly cave to the usual groups: agricultural interests, mining, homeowners who like spacious lawns in an arid region, and big industry.
The largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere has been steadily shrinking, as more and more water has been diverted away from the lake to irrigate farmland, feed industry and water lawns. A megadrought across the US south-west, accelerated by global heating, has hastened the lake’s demise. Unless dire action is taken, the lake could decline beyond recognition within five years, a report published early this year warned, exposing a dusty lakebed laced with arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic substances.The resulting toxic dustbowl would be “one of the worst environmental disasters in modern US history”, the ecologist Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University told the Guardian earlier this year. Despite such warnings, officials have failed to take serious action, local groups said in their lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday. “We are trying to avert disaster. We are trying to force the hand of state government to take serious action,” said Brian Moench of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, one of the groups suing state agencies. “Plaintiffs pray that this Court declare that the State of Utah has breached its trust duty to ensure water flows into the Great Salt Lake sufficient to maintain the Lake,” reads the lawsuit, which was brought by coalition that includes Earthjustice, the Utah Rivers Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, among others.
Political pressure has not been very effective in a state dominated by Republicans. The state's response is lukewarm at best. That's in addition to bizarre proposals.
The state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has suspended new claims to water in the Great Salt Lake basin and appointed a commissioner to oversee response to the lake crisis. Last year, Utah’s legislature passed several conservation measures, including a $40m trust to support lake preservation projects. But Abbott and his colleagues, who authored a sobering report on the lake in January, found that those measures increased flows to the lake by just 100,000 acre feet in 2022. About 2.5m acre-feet a year of water will need to flow into the lake to bring it to a healthy level, the researchers estimated. That water will likely have to come at the expense of agriculture, which takes in about three-quarters of the water diverted away from the lake to grow mostly alfalfa and hay. Cities and mineral extraction operations each take up another 9% of diverted water. But wresting water away from agriculture is politically complicated. Officials have explored propositions to pay farmers to fallow land and use less water, though such proposals have yet to gain much tractions. Lawmakers have also offered up a series of out-of-the-box solutions – including cloud seeding, which uses chemicals to prompt more precipitation – or building a giant pipeline from the Pacific Ocean.
Seriously, a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean? This is a classic idiotic GOP way to deal with an environmental catastrophe which doesn't get to the root of the problem.
Already, the lake has lost 73% of its water and 60% of its surface area, and is becoming saltier, threatening native flies and brine shrimp. A diminished lake may be unable to support the more than 10 million migratory birds that stop over in the region. A white pelican colony recently abandoned a nesting site on the lake, potentially due to declining water levels. “In addition to the millions of people who live here, so many plants and animals depend on the lake,” said Deeda Seed, Utah campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The health of northern Utah’s entire population depends on the Great Salt Lake’s survival and I hope this lawsuit can help save it.”
^^^ emphasis added
Yep, take their asses to court to save the body of water which gave the state's largest city its name.
#utah#great salt lake#water levels#diversion of water#the environment#migratory birds#white pelicans#brine shrimp#republicans#utah state government#spencer cox#deeda seed#brian moench#ben abbott#earthjustice#utah rivers council#the sierra club#center for biological diversity#utah physicians for a healthy environment
13 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Sometimes I find the weirdest shit out on the beach.
November, 2021
#salt lake city#slc#great salt lake#Utah#landscape#landscape photography#mcdonalds#flowers#monster#burger king
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Great Salt Lake. She STINKS. At no point in my life do I recall anyone ever warning me about the stench of the Great Salt Lake.
The smelter on the other side of the highway was more interesting than the lake itself.
8 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Sunset over the Wasatch Range from Antelope Island, Utah
#im going to start occasionally posting some of my photos here because i dont want them to sit on my camera forever!#landscape#utah#antelope island#mountains#sunset#great salt lake#photography#my pics#american west
13 notes
·
View notes