{"id":662473,"date":"2026-06-28T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:47:22","slug":"incredible-aerial-photography-of-salt-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662473\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Aerial Photography Of Salt Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd Lot\u2019s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five<\/p>\n

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In The Salt Series, German photographer Tom Hegen took aerial photographs of salt production. Photographed on a hovering DJI drone, his pictures document salt production across Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat attracted me was the graphic and abstract appearance of these landscapes, which almost has a painterly quality,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is also the core feature that aerial photography has to offer: an unfamiliar few at ordinary things that surround us,.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Making table salt in Aigues-Mortes near Montpellier<\/p>\n

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The picture shows the effect of the salt industry on land at Aigues-Mortes<\/a> near Montpellier in the south of France. Salt has been processed from the marshes since Roman times.<\/p>\n

To create the region\u2019s Fleur de Sel,, seawater is channelled through 45 miles (70km) of canals. During summer a thin film of crystals forms on the surface of the salty waters. It is then hand-harvested by salt workers.<\/p>\n

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The marshes of Gu\u00e9rande and Marennes-Ol\u00e9ron on the French Atlantic coast. These wetlands have been used for sea salt production for centuries. Man-made waterways, dams and pools are fed by the sea. In spring, the pools are flooded. A small but constant change in level let the water to flow into the evaporation ponds, which act as a reserve. Once the water evaporates, the seawater reaches a concentration level at which the salt crystallizes and becomes harvestable.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI draw my inspiration from classic painters like Mark Rothko. I see all human beings as designers of our planet. And I see myself as a sort of framer, framing the artworks of the earth\u2019s surface with my camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tom Hegen<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am attracted by the abstraction that comes with the change of perspective; seeing something familiar from a new vantage point that you are not used to. A drone just enables you to see more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tom Hegen, Salt<\/p>\n

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\u201cWorking in a series allows me to go deeper into one specific theme. Most of my work is based on a story of the relationship between human and nature. The single image is of great importance to me but working with a set of images let me show different aspects of one scenery. I am convinced that a series allows expressing the art of the photographer much better than a single image, as a series is more personalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tom Hegen<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Land\u2019 is actually a word of Germanic origin and the roots of the suffix \u2018-scape\u2019, refers to the verb \u2018shaping\u2019. So landscape in a sense of landscaping refers to an activity that modifies the visible features of an area by man. As a consequence of that, I started seeing landscape photography of documenting places influenced by human rather than landscape photography as showing pure, unspoiled nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tom Hegen<\/p>\n

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Via the printspace<\/a>, capture landscapes<\/a> ,<\/p>\n

You can buy prints on Hegen\u2019s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd Lot\u2019s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}