As I was looking for eye candy to present here at ImaGeo, I stumbled on this luscious image of Death Valley in California. It was taken from the Space Shuttle in 1999 using synthetic aperture radar. And it launched me on a hunt for more images that eventually led me to the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan — along with a possible lesson about the Anthropocene. (Yes, I am surely a geek...) The result is this gallery of images, which tell something of a story. So, how did I get from a mind-blowing