In the centre of Tafraoute, sheep make their way up a dry stream bed.

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At the nearby El Mirage Lake dry lake bed, the solar-powered Lightning Motorcycle set a new speed record for production motorcycles.

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It looked like a dry lake bed from space but none of the nearby rocks showed any sign of a watery past.

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Seven boxes of ammunition were found after the rampage in a black bag discovered in a dry river bed in Loughner's neighborhood.

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An image from Mr. Ritts's last project is in the show, a 2002 photo of actor Ben Affleck posing in a dry lake bed in California's Mojave Desert.

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The tunnels merge and separate, feed into the sewer system, and branch out again for hundreds of metres, emerging right outside town, amid the bushes of a dry river bed.

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On a dry lake bed.

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These few survivors, she explains, follow the fish in the dry season to deep pools in the bed of the river near Kratie, in Cambodia.

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