Back to Libya – I spent almost five years there in total. Today's photo I've titled, ‘Making Tracks'.
I'd left a crew working on the western side of Libya, vacationed in the Philippines and returned with a promotion to ‘Party Chief' to lead a crew on the eastern side of Libya.
The largest single feature in eastern Libya is the Calanscio Sand Sea and my crew was working the eastern edges of the dunes and the gravel plain to the east.
For this photo I was traveling in one Land Rover that was traveling at the same speed as the Land Rover I was shooting – certainly helps with the focus. This is a similar approach to all those fabulous shots of aircraft in flight that I've not yet had the opportunity to make. It was certainly a nice change from slowly picking our way through rocks!
The orange box in the back of this Land Rover tells me it was one assigned to the surveyors. On the left side of the truck is a water cooler while the spare tire is fixed in the rear.
Sand dunes are challenging places to drive and given the variability of the angles we'd be driving on, we wanted the center of gravity to be lower so we didn't keep the spares up on the roof as we had done on my previous crew.
The symbols on the mud flaps were supposed to help other drivers on the highway know on which side to pass. Out here they were irrelevant. They were also irrelevant on the highway also. With Allah guiding you, it really didn't matter on which side you passed.
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