NAVID BARATY

Total Solar Eclipse
Madras, Oregon

Some people cried, some screamed, and it was the most amazing thing I’ve ever witnessed. The light became eerie, shadows extremely defined, the air temperature fell, and then this giant black eye surrounded by a wispy corona appeared. An incomprehensible object, shimmering in the sky. For over two minutes, our consciousness departed Earth as we all stared at an otherworldly body suspended in the immensity of space.

Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Prince William Sound, Valdez, Alaska

Abandoned copper mine
Kennecott, Alaska

Iceland

Central Park, New York City

Big Island, Hawaii

San Francisco, California

Abandoned ship on the coast of Akranes, Iceland

Coney Island, Brooklyn

Seattle, Washington

Columbia Glacier, Alaska

Napali Coast, Kauai

Point Reyes, California

San Diego, California

Vik, Iceland

Skagway, Alaska

Nagano, Japan

Cape Disappointment, Washington

Vik, Iceland

Snoqualmie Pass, Washington

Prince William Sound, Valdez, Alaska

North Bend, Washington

Ocean Beach, San Francisco

In the middle of the Nevada desert, 10,000 billboard-sized mirrors track the desert sun and focus its rays onto the top of a 640ft tower filled with molten salt. The salt heats to extreme temperatures, produces steam, and generates electricity day and night for the state of Nevada.

Driving along the endless expanse of nothingness in the Nevada desert, I could see this tower gleaming like a beacon for miles and looking like some sort of advanced alien communication device.

Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska