Sentences with phrase «on dry lake beds»

Photographer Nick Brandt spent months on dry lake beds and dusty plains, waiting to capture images of African wildlife in what he calls their «state of being».

Okin, a wind erosion expert, tells me he got caught in one such storm just the other day on a dry lake bed.

But before we got behind the wheel, we were taken for a wild ride over the dunes by a Mercedes - Benz test driver, who fired the big pickup across the sand at breakneck speeds before performing a round of donuts on a dry lake bed to prove just how well engineered the G63 AMG 6x6 really is.

In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, boat slips sit on the dry lake bed at Brown's Marina at Folsom Lake, near Folsom Calif..

Not exact matches

The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

He also currently leads Drum circles here in Las Vegas on the desert, dry lake bed which have attracted over 500 people.

Stand on the parched, dusty surface of El Mirage, a dry lake bed north of Los Angeles that covers almost 76,000 acres, and as the sun dips behind the mountains to the west and the landscape adopts an eerie silence, it's just you and your shadow, stretching dozens of metres towards the east behind you.

Well, on a sandy, dried - up lake bed in Thailand, we were instructed to disable the car's traction control system before being sent out on a given route to test out the Forester's all - wheel drive system.

Spine of the Earth was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the fall of 1980.

The paint is finally dry; time to complete the thing and get out on the lake where the air is fresh and no realturds can get to me, unless someone's septic tank is too close to the water's edge and the leaching bed is pooched.