Once upon a time in the West, Edouard Sepulchre

Darkness on the edge of town, Victory Tischler-Blue

[Oil well drilling rig in desert taken with airplane and men with camel, Arabian American Oil Co., Saudi Arabia] by SMU Central University Libraries on Flickr.

On what was once the bed of the Aral Sea, a shoal of camels shelters from the sun under a pair of redundant fishing boats. The Aral Sea was the fourth largest inland body of water in the world but when its water was diverted away, it shrank to a salty puddle.

Ships of the desert by Nick Hannes

Death Valley, 1966