Bronze / 2024 / Nature / Landscape

Arita

One of the features of the Puna de Argentina is the string of enormous salt flats that stretch out under the foothills of the Andes mountain chain. This image is of ‘El Cono Arita’, a spectacular geological formation in the vast desert of the Salar de Arizaro. Legend has it that the name ‘Arita’ means “sharp” in the ancient Aymara language. I had visited this site before and knew that the early evening sun casts a long shadow of the cone on the salt pan. Using a drone, I was able to capture the magnificent shadow of Arita on that beautiful cloudless evening.

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