Tag:Deserts
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.
When you stand relatively close to a seismic vibrator you can literally feel the earth shaking. I don’t know if you could feel this jebel shaking or not but certainly had we set geophones on it we’d have detected it shaking.
Actually I’ve no idea whether or not this road construction next 5 miles tag is accurate or not. It’s often hard to tell distance in the desert, particularly on these hazy days.
Today’s photo is of a Cat D8 (or D9, I’m not an aficionado) ripping the earth a new one – road that is.
I’ve titled the last in my camel series, ‘I’ve been spotted’. The camel has wandered further away from me to the north-east but in this image it’s as though it’s looking directly at me
Here’s perhaps my favorite photo of my series of a camel, alone in a sea of sand. If you saw the first in the series and the second I posted yesterday…
