The Colorful Great Salt Lake

[Sombeech]

I just got back from Promontory Point this morning, I've been trying to get out to shoot the contrast between red and blue salt water for a couple of years now. I've got some killer photos and video that I'm excited to dig into right now, I'll just post up a couple of shots for now.

Here is a clip shot with a polarized lens that helps with the color, and some post coloring but not a crazy amount:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3cMHvMqDU


These photos are straight from the camera, no color editing.

Stay tuned

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[twotimer]

I'm really diggin' these photos and videos you're putting up. Not bad for a guy that doesn't make any friggin' sense otherwise...right?

[oldno7]

I'm really diggin' these photos and videos you're putting up. Not bad for a guy that doesn't make any friggin' sense otherwise...right?

Not only that---but how does he run that thing from his house?

Guy hates the outdoors......

[DirkHammergate]

I'm really diggin' these photos and videos you're putting up. Not bad for a guy that doesn't make any friggin' sense otherwise...right?

He's got the Hammer and his buddies looking at properties in Liberty because of his dumb little drone. Plus, I figure he could use a good neighbor or two.

[DirkHammergate]

Not only that---but how does he run that thing from his house?

Guy hates the outdoors......

Take it from a guy that never leaves his Mom's basement. Sometimes if you slip out the basement patio sliding doors you can see some stuff. It's hard out here for a pimp.

[twotimer]

That was funny.

[Sombeech]

Thanks fellas. Here's a little choo choo clip


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y837fxsZZYg

[rockgremlin]

^^^Is this where all that "Himalayan" pink sea salt comes from? Or is it really imported from Nepal as the label claims?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Be4AAOSwB4BZ6lZ5/s-l640.jpg

[Sombeech]

^^^Is this where all that "Himalayan" pink sea salt comes from? Or is it really imported from Nepal as the label claims?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Be4AAOSwB4BZ6lZ5/s-l640.jpg

LOL I've got some stuck to my Highlander I'll sell you at a discount.

It says "Himalayan Pink Salt comes from the heart of the..... " but I wouldn't doubt they found a loophole to say "And it also comes from the Great Salt Lake, like this container here". But they ran out of room on the label.

But yeah, I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived out there and saw the red water. After that long drive I was hoping it wasn't just a certain time of year or certain salinity.

It's one of those cool sights, and the red water covers more area than most cities, but nobody knows about it. I was in the middle of nowhere, alone. I didn't shut my vehicle off the whole time, just in case it wouldn't start up again. No cell service out there, nobody else driving by except for that train.

[Sombeech]

Well waddaya know, ABC News, MSN, Yahoo and some other big media are featuring my stuff for a fourth time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/t/drone-footage-captures-the-great-salt-lake-train-cutting-through-pink-and-blue-salt-water/vp-BBNcLxm

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/drone-footage-captures-great-salt-011354336.html?guccounter=1

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnocenmDS1v/

[Sombeech]

Oh look politics in the top comments
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=339105806859578&id=86680728811

[DirkHammergate]

Oh look politics in the top comments
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=339105806859578&id=86680728811

That just what social media is now. Remember when you used to have an Outdoor's website??

[rockgremlin]

That just what social media is now. Remember when you used to have an Outdoor's website??


LOL those were the good times...


MBGA

[DirkHammergate]

#MBGA

[Sombeech]

#itWasNeverGreat

[Sombeech]

Sorry, one more brag. Here's the 4th time featured by Good Morning America

https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica/videos/339204776849681/

[Sombeech]

Ah snap, 1 million views in the first 24 hours

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=339204776849681&id=59306617060

[Iceaxe]

You need to hide a #MAGA Easter Egg in your video's.... :roflol:

[rockgremlin]

"It's really a shame what they've done to that lake. What did they think was gonna happen if the entire thing was cut in two by a gigantic dike!!"

:lol8:


People are such morans.

[Iceaxe]

Actually the causeway was put in place long before we worried about such things as environmental impact or understood the effects the causeway would have.

The causeway was designed with breaks to allow the lake levels to equalize, at the time they thought that was all that would be required. FWIW the Lucin Cutoff went into use in 1904.

[Sombeech]

I read a comment that said the railroad should be responsible for fixing it :roflol:

If they fixed it, I wouldn't be getting paid hundreds of dollars for the video. So NO.

[Sombeech]

You need to hide a #MAGA Easter Egg in your video's.... :roflol:

That would be funny. Some little see through tag in a low corner, showing up for 2 frames, which would be a fraction of a second. It would need to be sneaky so the corporate reviewers wouldn't catch it. But at the same time, this being my 4th time featured, I've got contacts and relationships now, and I would certainly be cut off from future opportunities, definitely.

I'd have to pull a powerplay and submit it via a false name, so they wouldn't know I was such a racist.

[oldno7]

That would be funny. Some little see through tag in a low corner, showing up for 2 frames, which would be a fraction of a second. It would need to be sneaky so the corporate reviewers wouldn't catch it. But at the same time, this being my 4th time featured, I've got contacts and relationships now, and I would certainly be cut off from future opportunities, definitely.

I'd have to pull a powerplay and submit it via a false name, so they wouldn't know I was such a racist.

Code name---Spartacus

[Sombeech]

Code name---Spartacus

:haha:

[robles]

http://gshort.click/isna/9/o.pngit's looks great

[Sombeech]

I got around to editing the rest of this video footage, you may see this one shared across the big media sites and TV stations this week too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3cMHvMqDU

[Sombeech]

http://gshort.click/isna/9/o.pngit's looks great
Thanks

[rockgremlin]

I got around to editing the rest of this video footage, you may see this one shared across the big media sites and TV stations this week too.


It's horrible that the railroads have caused this pollution and they should be made to clean up the mess.


Anybody else catch the MAGA Easter egg tucked away in there? :haha:

[oldno7]

These drone guys gotta quit putting food color in water just to get a shot

I remember when they did something similar on a river in Colorado.

I think those guys all wear maga hats, thats why they colored the water going through the reservation

[Sombeech]

What's up weirdos, just dropping a plug for my footage that will be on the Discovery Channel, I guess it will be in March.

It will feature in the show "Impossible Railways".

I've got another clip that will be on the Smithsonian Channel, but it's a different video :afro: