Tag:Deserts
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 […]
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.
Photo of Arch Rock, a natural formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
The traditional definition of a desert is based on a (lack of) rainfall figure – less than 250 mm (10 in.) rainfall per year. An alternative definition is a place that lacks sufficient vegetation to support human population. the English word desert comes from the Latin ‘desertum’ meaning an abandoned place.