Back to the seismic survey in the Calanscio Sand Sea for today's photo I've titles, 'Gritty'.
Although this looks at first glance to be an aerial shot, I'm actually standing on the on terra firma for this shot of our vibs approaching the escarpment.
After the surveyor cut his line, a 'bridging crew' would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically three poles wide and nailed together, it made walking the lines considerably easier for the rest of us and in most cases kept our feet dry also. It also meant that relatively few people were actually tromping across the jungle floor.
Actually, the shot below is of a pretty shoddy job. If we'd done it properly, as we did most of the time, there wouldn't have been any blow-out. Here, a large part of the energy of the charge is moving upwards as the shot hole blows out and the noise generated when the dirt falls back to the ground also degrades the signal. But when a shot goes well, there's nothing to photograph.
I took this image at a place I've noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn't appear to be the Schoonspruit that Google…
I captured this sunset a week or two after I crashed the boss's car. I was struck by the cloud formation at the higher altitude. Below it is another layer of thin clouds giving the patches with less clarity.