Monthly:April 2012
Order a print of this photo I’ve no idea what the Korean language on the poster says. Judging from the cross on the figures head I’m guessing it’s some sort of safety poster, which makes the shower of sparks somewhat ironic! It looks as though the figure is howling in pain from the shower of sparks. I do recall that the sign was on a thin steel plate. The green wall behind it is hardboard. So placing the sign in […]
Uphole drilling in Libya. The drill here is a Mayhew 1000 mounted on a MOL 6×6 truck.
Order a print of this photo The movie cliché holds that a soldier’s rifle is his best friend. For most of 1985, this Land Rover was my ‘rifle’. It held 80 gallons gas in two tanks, 20 gallons of water and a survival kit with nutrient rich emergency rations. It also had a VHF radio. The standing rule was to ‘stay with your vehicle’ at all times – it being much easier to see a vehicle in this vast emptiness […]
This is a shot of the partial solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. Well, partial from where I was in Exeter, England.
This shot was taken many years ago – 1983 actually. It’s a scan of a slide. I took it from my college dorm window, looking west across the Exe Valley.
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting line in hair
Across the heath.
