Back to Libya - I spent almost five years there in total. Today's photo I've titles, 'Making Tracks'.
I titled today's photo 'Checkpoint Wadi' because when we moved into this concession in western Libya in 1990, this was one of the few routes for travelers to traverse the escarpment.
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.
I was in the dunes one afternoon, about to head back to camp when along came a camel into my field of view.
So here I am, standing on the edge of this escarpment in western Libya, miles from anywhere. Up ahead is the surveyor's offsider, standing by a ranging pole.
Not really life on Mars but if you wanted to fake a Mars landing you could do worse than this part of western Libya. Taken in 1990 it's almost a reverse view of this shot - in that it's the same escarpment, but looking down.