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Friday, November 03, 2006

Salt Works, Marlborough

We're going east for the next few days. Past Blenheim towards Kaikoura on Highway 1 is the salt works. This salt works produces natural sea salt in those ponds, and each pond (different stages) has different colors. Another shot.

There is a new New Zealand DP from beautiful Kapiti Coast. Please have a look.

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Pierre said...

Beautiful pink pond, under this white and blue sky...

Shagen said...

Thanks for linking my blog to yours. We planning our next summer holidays at Nelson and look forward to see those photos in real life soon.

Mile Stones said...

This is a totally surreal landscape. I'm used to salt flats (salinas) here, on river estuaries, but not like this.
Come on you two, tell me you went on an excursion to Jupiter to take this:).

Victoria said...

Wow, that doesn't even look real, more like something out of a dream. Very trippy, but very beautiful.

jazzy said...

the sky is beautiful as everything else, hope you're enjoying your trip.

Lachezar said...

Ben you've done it again, I guess you poses the superpower to conjure sky and clouds at your will :)

Great one

Lisi said...

the beautiful sky and the pink pond are amazing, nice photo!

Ben said...

Thanks Pierre, I did little contrast adjustment on this picture. But… Basically colour is all natural, you would be wowed at site when you are standing front of it.

I was still on the Earth (Well, I wish I could travel that far, Mile).

No worries Shagen, you are one of now growing NZ daily Photo bloger. I must have listed you on side bar as well.

Thank you for visiting us, Victoria. It really real, I did not use any filters or colour alternation, but only the contrast.

Thanks Jazzy, Yes we did enjoy our trip. Now we are back to usual nest. I will show few more pictures from this nearby trip.

Hehe, Lanchezar, I wish I had that power, I guess I’m always lucky to find that kind of sky/cloud formation.

Thank you Lisi, The pond is the main subject on this picture but I could not resist the sky.

Anonymous said...

I just love those pinks. Enjoy the trip.

Meg Nakagawa said...

Mile, with the cost of petrol, OF COURSE IT'S EARTH, (though the price went down a bit on Wednesday.) Yay.

Anonymous said...

I never seen a place like this. This pink is amazing:)

Anonymous said...

Mumbai DP showed an eye-opening photo of mattress cleaning. Now i see hills of salt (am i right?) ..what a fruitful day!

Ben said...

Thanks Nathalie. We did enjoy our short trip.

Zsolt72, It's amazing and that pink is real!

Kris, yes the white hills on the back is the mountain of salt!

Anonymous said...

How interesting! The salt ponds at different stages have different colours. Wonders of nature...

Ben said...

Thanks Keropok Man.
It's interesting, eh?

piika said...

okey dokey i don't believe that this isn't an altered photo - this is definitely a "photo shop" image.... don't lie to me.

Ben said...

Piika, you should come here and see it by yourself. It's not a painting or a drawing or any of those computer graphics.
It's real. As I said, it go through post process for adjusting contrast, but that's it.

No, don't say "Yeah right."

Matthieu said...

Kind mother nature !
Greater flamingo are missing in such a landscape !0)

Ben said...

Flamingo! Yeah, that's right. They can hide there no problem.

Eric said...

Another wonderful shot. Just ignore the non-believers. I do. However, just to be sure, I'll have to come over there to see for myself! ;-)

Ben said...

Thanks Eric! Yap everybody should look at on your own eye, it is amazing.