Curious about this site…

I’ve been curious about this image that I took pretty recently. I’m wondering if this is a pipe for water movement in the salt mining process or something else. The pipe is still being used to dump brown water into Don Edwards (the water it dumps is also very foamy, [...]

In thinking through the range of scales available to the Hidden Ecologies I have imagined our photographic capacities as spanning four distinct scale bands. While I am still not clear about how best to use these it is fun to think about how cleanly they nest together. I am starting to gather transition images to [...]

I was heading home from meetings in the City today and timed my return to provide a window for photographing the Greenbrae Boardwalk. I did not think my chances were good because the flags atop San Francisco’s highrises had hung limp in beaufort zero winds for the entire day. But lo and behold the faintest [...]

I continue to work on interpreting the LaRiviere Marsh landscape. Part of the puzzle certainly lies in the history and layout of August Schilling’s Arden Salt Works Plant #1. The more I read, the more interesting this enterprise becomes.

Image of August Schiiling’s Arden Salt Works on the leeward side of the Coyote Hills, which are [...]

During the last month or so I have exchanged notes with Laura Watt, environmental consultant and ace photographer. Last year Laura got a behind the scenes tour of Cargill’s Newark Salt Works and captured a lovely set of images. I would so much like to do this.

Harvested salt awaits processing in Newark — photo by [...]

While working on the header image set for this site I took a break and, undaunted by my red-green colorblindness, played with lining up the images in a color sequence.

On completing a 15-minute speed drill version of this exercise I am struck by how colorful the South Bay can be. I’ve made a note to [...]

I have drawn up a diagram locating the four initial sites for Hidden Ecologies explorations.

Click on the image to go to a legible version on Flickr.

Wayne and I were talking the other day about Duniella, the tiny flagellated algae that lend such fine color to many of the ponds. The conversation brought to mind a nice passage from John Postgate’s Outer Reaches of Life (appended), a book read at Wayne’s suggestion.

Dunaliella images from http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Biology/Docs/EEB/ and www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~inouye/ino/g/chl/chlorophytes.html respectively. Dunaliella [...]

Artist Rebecca Haseltine scans the horizon from atop a derelict salt work structure. The location is adjascent to the old. natural course of the Coyote Hills Slough.
A year ago we staged a group hike along the south side of Coyote Hills Slough. This was an early attempt to exercise the varied points of view idea. [...]

I have been working this weekend on the look and feel of the Hidden Ecologies Blog. During the next week or so you will probably see variations in presentation of the content as I work toward what I hope will be a site that is visually interesting as well as easier to use. When I [...]