To some, the Salton Sea is a chemical wasteland, the result of decades of contaminated runoff from neighboring farmland. To others, it is an important wildlife refuge for migrating birds. Eighty years ago it was a resort destination, known as California’s ‘Desert Riviera’. Now, there are places along its 110 shoreline that are little more than ghost towns.
An aqautic oasis sadly reduced to a place where oxygen starved fish die in droves, littering the shoreline white with their skeletal remains.
And yet, to this photographer, it is still a place of undeniable beauty.
