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Calanscio Vibroseis

Daily Photo – Calanscio Vibroseis

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.

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Vibs at one o'clock

Daily Photo – Vibs at one o’clock!

On this survey we were using four Failing Y1100 vibrators mounted on International 6×6 trucks as our energy source. In this photo you can see the four vibrators shaking the ground and carving their way through the maize. In the foreground a spare fifth vibrator sits idle, ready to go to work if one of the other four breaks down. In the background are the Schoonspruit/Skoonspruit grain silos.

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Bultfontein Sunrise

Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise

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.

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