Technical: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, tripod, PP in PS 5.1
Location and time: Lake Hart, South Australia, during sunset (April 2012)
Lake Hart is a salt lake in the very heart of South Australia situated on the Stuart Highway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Highway, accessed 16.02.13). You're viewing remnants of a pretty old jetty (I assume). Lake Hart is a popular stop over for travellers going Adelaide to Darwin. Its a dry lake, mostly salt flats and is surrounded by bright red desert and dunes.
That's a very interesting location, nice work here with it. So it would appear that if that was a jetty there, that this lake was not always dry? When and why did it dry up?
Cordial thanks, Dustin, Chris, Jim, Sunny, Treebeard, David and Dave!
Jim, I simply don't know when this jetty must have been in operation - it's difficult to find information on that particular issue on the Web. You might check out http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/dedeckker_p/pubs/120.pdf for general information on how those salt lakes in the center of Australia have formed.
Note that just a few meters away the railway running from Adelaide to Darwin passes:
Maybe the jetty was used to load / ship salt decades or even more than a century ago.
Dave, I did not (here). However, a bit later (when there was not so much light any longer), I did.
