This is a color image of an abandoned and dilapidated home that someone artfully arranged furniture in the front yard. Was photographed at Bombay Beach on the Salton Sea in the desert of southern California near the Palm Springs area.

The Salton Sea was formed between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River burst through poorly built irrigation controls south of Yuma, Arizona. Almost the entire flow of the river filled the Salton Basin for more than a year, inundating communities, farms and the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The largest lake in California resulted when the flooding was finally stopped. Several small towns were built along the banks but there have been times of floods that claimed communities too close to the lakes edges. Many of the homes and business establishments were abandoned and left to slowly decompose in the desert sun and heat.