On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

On set Photography with Vice/Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

The fight for water rights is nothing new in California. This years historic drought has brought added attention to something that most Californians have lived with their whole lives. California drinks more water than it has... way more. While it's hard to keep all those SoCal lawns green, most of this water is used for agricultural purposes; California's agricultural output is responsible for a large portions of America and the world's produce. Recent events in the Salton Sea are reminiscent of the past. In the 1920s William Mulholland filled the never ending thirst of a growing Los Angeles by undertaking one of the greatest water conveyance projects of time. The Los Angeles aqueduct transformed Los Angeles into a large metropolis. In the process, it turned the fertile land of the Owens Valley into a dusty wasteland, devastating the farmlands and ecosystems. Nearly 100 years later the same thing is happening right before our eyes in the Imperial Valley, as bountiful farmlands and vast the ecosystem like the Salton Sea stand to suffer a similar fate, this time in order to quench the thirst of San Diego and its surrounding areas.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

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The Salton sea is a shadow of its former self. It no longer host celebrity visitors such as the rat pack who used drive right passed palm springs to bathe themselves in what used to be a premiere vacation destination for many of tinseltown's A listers

Christmas in July!

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Heron's are just one of the over 400 birds that at one point or another settle in the salton sea. When there was water on this barren land Heron's used this tree as a nesting place as the water offered protection from predators. The Salton sea hosts more birds then any other part of the USA.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

A dead tilapia lies on the receding shore of the Salton Sea. While this fish died from one the Algae blooms that occur almost every year and drive the oxygen levels in the water to near 0%. The future is much more dire. If the salt levels in the salton sea continue to increase as they have been all the tilapia will die off for good. Taking away a crucial food source in this fragile ecosystem.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

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Bombay Beach's last watering hole.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/water-conservation-and-the-salton-sea

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

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as seen from the Griffith Observatory. 

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Downtown Los Angeles

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard on location at the Salton Sea.

A great view from the Santa Monica bluffs.

Shot with LG G4 camera phone for ViceMedia/MotherBoard.