Is This an Australian Salt Lake or a 'Beating Heart Laid Bare'?

Splatters of color, red as viscera and yellow as bile, stain an otherwise ghostly landscape. Salt formations resemble bones and body parts when seen from overhead, creating an unsettling piece of art that might be mistaken for a crime scene photo. Photographer Timothy Moon, who captured this arresting image of Australia’s Lake Tyrrell using a drone, compared the site to “a beating heart laid bare.” The vivid colors in Moon’s photograph, taken from about 250 feet above the lakebed, hint at a complex and dynamic geology beneath its salty crust….

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