Saltscapes: the Kite Aerial Photography of Cris Benton

Berkeley: Heyday, 2013. First edition, first printing (full number line). Folio red-brown illus jacket; xi, 161 pages: color illustrations, 1 color map; 32 cm bibliographical references Fine in fine jacket; as new in as new dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781597142472

Stunning work. "After a century of industrial salt production, ten thousand acres near the San Franscico Bay are being restored to their natural state, and the use of a kite to fly a radio controlled camera up to 300 feet in the air captured images of this transformation."—Publisher. Contents: Kite play -- Color and texture -- Primordial marsh -- Traces past -- Curious measures -- Our day. Standard // Aerial photography -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area. Kites. Photographie aérienne -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de. Aerial photography. Kites.