In all probability today’s photo, ‘Medic’s Tent’ was taken on the same blustery day as yesterday’s photo.
Category Archives: Travel Photography A good desert sunset was a rarity, best I can recall, but every now and then a cloud formation would be in the right place to produce something special, such as that in today’s photo.  Today’s photo is a view about 135° anti-clockwise from yesterday’s. It’s of a recording flycamp in western Libya in 1990.  I spent a fair bunch of time trying to title today’s photo before settling on ‘approaching sunset’. This was taken somewhere in western Libya in the first half of 1990. 
[...] photo is a view about 135° anti-clockwise from yesterday’s. It’s of a recording flycamp in western Libya in [...]  Me and my Land Rover or my Land Rover and I? Probably the latter if I could be bothered to reach for one of my several style guides.  Not really another day, another wadi, more the same day and the same wadi as yesterday’s image. Today’s photo shows the wadi stretching into the distance where it makes a left hand turn and disappears behind a headland in the distance.  William Wordsworth’s poem, commonly known as ‘Daffodils’ was first written in 1804 and revised in 1815. It’s the opening lines that inspired my title for today’s photo. If you don’t know, ‘Daffodils’ starts with the lines:
[...] Not really another day, another wadi, more the same day and the same wadi as yesterday’s image. [...]  Today’s photo doesn’t actually follow on from yesterday’s Desert Shipwreck image but given the content I though Desert Flotsam was an appropriate title and now was an appropriate time to post.  If the camel is the ship of the desert then I think my title for today’s photo – Desert Shipwreck – is appropriate. I still wonder how this camel met its end.
[...] photo doesn’t actually follow on from yesterday’s Desert Shipwreck image but given the content I though Desert Flotsam was an appropriate title and now was an [...]  In the bottom of a wadi like this is not the best place to break down. Actually, I’ve no recollection of breaking down. I’m guessing we had some problem though because the hood of the Land Rover is open. |
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by Richard Davis