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Today’s photo doesn’t actually follow on from yesterday’s Desert Shipwreck image but given the content I though Desert Flotsam was an appropriate title and now was an appropriate time to post.
As my faded memory recalls, pretty much every afternoon at around 3:00 pm, the clouds would build us and a series of thunder storms would roll through. The noise from the rain and thunder rendered our seismic recording an exercise in futility so we’d return to camp, and face the prospect of cooking once again.
This photo was taken from just outside the old wall, near the water pool. The white tower and dome is part of one of the mosque complexes in the town – the white paint also serving to reduce the temperature on the inside.
This wadi had obviously seen some reliable moister over the years judging by the palm tree. There’s also some scrubby bushes around. The surface also looks ‘caked’ rather than sandy or gravelly.
Order a print of this photo I’ve no idea what the Korean language on the poster says. Judging from the cross on the figures head I’m guessing it’s some sort of safety poster, which makes the shower of sparks somewhat ironic! It looks as though the figure is howling in pain from the shower of sparks. I do recall that the sign was on a thin steel plate. The green wall behind it is hardboard. So placing the sign in […]
When I first went to Libya in 1984 I was an ‘Assistant Seismologist’. My job function was to determine the static corrections needed to apply to the seismic data so it all made sense in the processing cycle. To do this we had a couple of Mayhew 1000 drilling rigs mounted on Belgian MOL trucks. They’d go out to the location we directed and drill typically a 10 cm diameter hole to a depth of up to 100 meters. I’d […]
