Jichu Mao

Salt

Alviso Marina County Park, San Jose, June 2025

Salt ponds at the southern end of San Francisco Bay.

11 photographs

A dark red salt pond edged with white salt crust; a few people walk along the far shore.
A person standing at the edge of a shallow pond, mirrored in the water beside a lump of salt.Close view of red brine with salt crystals forming under the surface.
A white salt flat with a shallow pool winding through it.A lump of salt standing in still red water.
Upside-down reflections of two people in still red water.
A man standing on a spit of salt under a high sun, reflected in the pond.Tan hills beyond a blurred white field of salt.A boardwalk with steel railings leading to a small house-shaped frame.
A house-shaped wooden frame on a grassy bank, mirrored in a pond.An adult and two children at the water's edge in silhouette, with their reflections.

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