Tag:Birdwagen
Everyone is waiting on No. 5 to get into position for the next sweep. Nos. 1, 6, and 2 (hidden behind 5) are ready to go an No. 5 is almost there.
Today’s photo, ‘Calanscio Vibroseis’ shows our seismic line stretching out from one set of dunes and across a plain towards another distant dune line.
In today’s shot the four seismic vibrators are working their way, single file, along a bulldozed track and shaking the foothills of the escarpment.
Things are looking down or, perhaps more appropriately, I’m looking down on things. Western Libya, 1990, and four Birdwagen Mark III’s with Failing Y1100 vibrators approach the bottom of the escarpment.
Today’s photo is of a seismic vibrator – a Failing Y1100 on a Birdwagen Mark III hydraulic 4-wheel drive buggy.
After Heuningspruit we found ourselves camped near Bultfontein. This was almost certainly taken with my Tamron 500mm mirror lens as my records show the next longest lens I owned at the time was a 300mm.
