Tag Archives: South Africa On this survey we were using four Failing Y1100 vibrators mounted on International 6×6 trucks as our energy source. In this photo you can see the four vibrators shaking the ground and carving their way through the maize. In the foreground a spare fifth vibrator sits idle, ready to go to work if one of the other four breaks down. In the background are the Schoonspruit/Skoonspruit grain silos.  In this image we’d taken off from behind his red-roofed house and I was able to take this shot looking to the north, towards Bothaville. Our camp is in the triangle made by the rail-road, the highway and the road that runs in front of the grain silo’s. The settlement in the left mid-ground is the farm workers settlement. 
[...] title perhaps but the photos below are of the inside of one of our water tanks at our Schoonspruit/Skoonspruit camp! Perhaps it explains why we used to drink so much beer in the [...]  I took this image at a place I’ve noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn’t appear to be the Schoonspruit that Google Maps or Bing directs you to since I can’t find any grain elevators there. From this camp we recorded the first 3D seismic survey in…
[...] took this from our camp at Schoonspruit, back in December 1988. Order a Limited Edition Print of this [...]  Once again, at the right time of year, the sunsets in South Africa provide a fantastic display of color. This image is taken in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve in the Free State.
[...] photo was taken a few months after the sunset photo while on a different trip. It’s taken from one of the rocky outcrops in the north-east corner [...]  As you can see, the ground in the camp was quite waterlogged, though this wasn’t the worst camp site flood by quite some measure. See the image at the bottom of the post for the most waterlogged camp site!
[...] wonderful sunsets. Plus, here we were actually camped on some higher ground on the edge of the pond rather than in the pond. Of course, we were aided in this by the fact the pond had water in it when we arrived. Order a [...]
[...] When I first arrived about a year earlier the crew and camping was new and far less structured but as we got used to the dynamic, our orderliness improved considerably. Thankfully, Bultfontein was a dry camp. [...]  I think there’s something old-worldly, even timeless, about this image of a ford on the Sand River in South Africa.
[...] it was in the late eighties). I used to drive along the north side of the lake (which is fed by the Sand River and formed by the Allemanskraal Dam) where there are some rocky outcrops, one of which is well [...]
[...] a Limited Edition Print of this photo Another day in Bothaville, another great [...]  This photo shows the afternoon sunlight streaming through the afternoon rain clouds.
[...] a Limited Edition Print of this photo Here’s another autumn sunset taken in March 1988 near Bothaville in South [...]  A little way north up the Atlantic Coast from Cape Town is the beach community of Sunset Beach. On the day we went up there they were having a windsurfing (sailboarding? – Anyone know the difference? Anyone care?) competition that we stayed and watched for a while.  Late afternoon and a farm worker pulls a harrow across a field before a stand of trees. The trees all tilt to the right showing the direction of the prevailing winds. Dust hangs in the air behind the tractor. |
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by Richard Davis
[...] damages than the maize fields even though it was less than an eighth of the survey area where the corn fields were about three quarters of the survey [...]
very cool shot!
Thanks James. Flying in that chopper was a lot of fun!