{"id":400,"date":"2010-05-07T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2010-05-07T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:31:47","slug":"salinas-grandes-in-northwest-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/05\/07\/salinas-grandes-in-northwest-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Salinas Grandes in Northwest Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Salinas<\/a><\/p>\n

Total Miles Traveled:<\/strong> 13,268<\/p>\n

Salinas Grandes is a huge salt flat northwest of Salta. \u00a0Above is an example of a salt pool that is used to harvest salt. \u00a0The water is just below the surface, so they dig these pools to expose the water. \u00a0The water then evaporates from exposure to sun and wind, and what’s left is clean salt. \u00a0 Not sure how these salt flats were created though – probably part of prehistoric saltwater lakes?<\/p>\n

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Since salt flats are almost perfectly, well, flat – they allow for some fun with photography and perspective. \u00a0 Some of you may have already seen these on Facebook, but here they are again, with a little how to.<\/div>\n
Fortunately, our driver has taken a few of these photos before, so he was able to compose some of these for us. \u00a0If I remember correctly, Lisa’s standing about 20-30 yards away, and I’m about 15 yards away from the camera.<\/div>\n

\"Symbolism?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The following, of course, would NEVER happen. \u00a0 Lisa was pretty far away for this one and the camera was on the ground. \u00a0 In hindsight, I would have used a wide angle lens.<\/p>\n

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Whispering sweet nothings…<\/p>\n

\"Pssst\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Balancing on a wine bottle<\/p>\n

\"Salinas<\/a><\/p>\n

Doing the Karate Kid crane kick!<\/p>\n

\"Karate<\/a><\/p>\n

And some yoga poses…<\/p>\n

\"Doing<\/a><\/p>\n

Here Lisa’s riding the world’s only giant stuffed llama:<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Salinas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Getting the perspective down does take a little thought and practice. \u00a0There were many other photos that didn’t make the cut. \u00a0 For example, here’s one where it didn’t quite work out:<\/p>\n

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But… we’ll end on one that did work out…<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/a><\/p>\n

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Total Miles Traveled: 13,268 Salinas Grandes is a huge salt flat northwest of Salta. \u00a0Above is an example of a salt pool that is used to harvest salt. \u00a0The water is just below the surface, so they dig these pools to expose the water. \u00a0The water then evaporates from exposure to sun and wind, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}