2012
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.
I really enjoy looking at this image at 100% because it’s clearly just mushed pixels, almost pointillistic in nature.