pretty quiet on the road today. thanking the freaky being in the sky for that one.
just a shot of high-voltage, high tensile electrical cable running over the highway.
just be sure you don’t live under that stuff, you may get free electricity, but you may also get some whacky cancer.
Edited: December 15th, 2011
i kid you not.
i have deliberately not retouched this photo at all. what you see is exactly what i saw.
for anyone who has driven from south to north along the bradfield highway in the late afternoon, you understand this photo completely. that is the sun blazing into my eyes underneath that bridge. hell, i reckon i captured solar flares in that shot.
since we australians live in a complete nanny state and seem to not take on any personal responsibility, i propose that we build enormous retractible sunshades made of some kind of polarising material. they can be suspended by zeppelins hovering over the city in the afternoon when the westerly sun is so strong.
though we are not (yet) as letigious as our friends over in the usa, maybe we need to find some ways to wrap our population in cottonwool better. spoonfeed them with transfats and provide a rudd/gillard economic stimulous package – one that provides anyone who has a kid with free headrest lcd dvd/gaming console in every family car on the australian road – just to keep the kids entertained for the 20 minute drive home from school.
furthermore, the state should provide commuters with rubber bumpers all around their vehicles so in case of collision, cars simply bounce off eachother – like dodgem cars.
if my pinky finger should get strained in such a collission, i should automatically be entilted to a modest compensation payment of 11 million dollars.
you think i am joking? read this story of .telstra worker dale hargreaves and her compo payout.
next time you can’t work from home, next time you see your insurance premium goes up, next time that you suddenly see there is more legislation and red tape in between you and getting your job done, you can thank the likes of dale hargreaves (who may well have been on the sauce when her accidents happened). fuck you dale hargreaves and everyone like you – you have just fucked it all up and made it that little bit harder for all the rest of us. may a real accident find you soon.
Edited: June 25th, 2011
man, how was the rain today!? i love this kind of torrential rain, i just don’t like driving in it.
Edited: May 30th, 2011
somwhere near lithgow. hmm, back to the big smoke. personally, i’d rather be driving west of parkes for a big adventure….. one day maybe.
Edited: January 11th, 2011
usually i am the sucker who is doing all the driving. it’s not a problem, i love doing long-distance driving.
it’s only when i’m in the passenger seat do i sometimes realise that i love being a passenger.
when being a passenger on the highway, i love to look into other peoples cars to see what is going on there. a car can be like a bubble. a world unto itself.
so i started to invade peoples privacy and shoot them as we flew past at 110 kmph.
here is one of the shots. a shame i never got a shot of the guy doing 120kmph, steering with his forearms and eating from his take-away container with a plastic fork while talking on the phone.
really.
Edited: January 3rd, 2011
not much road rage going on here. good to see…
Edited: August 10th, 2010
shame i’ve got to get to work instead of enjoy it….
Edited: August 5th, 2010
hammering down with rain and winds of up to 100 kmph, not a nice evening to be out and about.
Edited: August 2nd, 2010
you know when you are taking the road less traveled when you see lichen growing all over the road.
i love the big sky you get when you are out of the claustrophobic big city. love those rain clouds thundering in from left of frame. hope these guys got some rain, looks like they could do with some.
Edited: July 26th, 2010
after about a week of torrential downpours, i awoke this morning to a black sky.
over time, the morning darkness gave way to some light! sunlight!
yaaay!
on the drive to a job, i snapped this shot through the windscreeen (i was driving west along burton st, darlinghurst) – the first strong rainbow i’ve seen since shooting a rainbow in the inner-west.
was the pot of gold coming from the sydney cbd, or was it coming from the now hot property market in sydney’s inner west, or even from the hot property developers in strathfield? i don’t know.
nice to see some sunshine and a rainbow too after all this time. good feeling all around.
Edited: May 27th, 2010
look at what’s going on here. lamp posts, signage, mobile phone towers, big brother cameras, posts poles, columns, those dangly things that make noise when a too-high truck passes them, concrete and galvanised steel. what you don’t see in the photo is the black dust from exhaust fumes, millions, yes i am sure, millions of cigarette butts and piles of rubbish thrown out the windows of moving (and sometimes not moving) vehicles, like it’s someone else’s problem.
when are people going to realise that when they throw their crap onto the street, rather than into a bag, that yes sure, it will be someone else’s problem, but also a problem to themselves and their families? boggles the mind it does.
Edited: April 12th, 2010
shame to see the land that we grow our food on being converted into ghettos of mcmansions. shame to see that we still need to rely on road for transport of freight, instead of rail. it is unsustainable and shortsighted in every way. very australian. lucky country my ass, try stupid country. it upsets me.
Edited: April 8th, 2010
somewhere along general holmes drive.
who was general holmes anyway?
i did some reading on the guy and can tell you this:
he was born in 1862 and went to paddington public school, he joined the military at 10 years of age and late went to south africa to fight the boer wars. during ww1, he overthrew german command of new guinea, was posted to gallipoli in march 1915, which he survived and then got sent to the western front in april 1916.
he was killed by german shells in july 1917 and is buried in belgium.
there you go folks, now you know who that road is named after, whether you agree with it or not.
Edited: April 5th, 2010
that’s what this guys numberplate reads. i wonder why he is 2wistd? maybe he spent more on his audio system than what the car is worth? that would be pretty 2wistd. just another 2wistd evening on parramatta road. wonder if he had a 2wistd nite wit da 2wistd laydeez? what would a 2wistd guy look for in a 2wistd LAYdee i wonder? she’d have to be pretty fucking 2wistd herself to keep up with 2wistd himself, it would be pretty hard to keep up with someone so 2wistd. stop me, i’m feeling a little bit too 2wistd.
UPDATE!!! 17.10.2010
i’ve just found out that 2wstd is totally famous! check out better pics of his chariot here! and if you want it, it can be yours for a cool $19k. check out the specs and the deets here.
Edited: April 4th, 2010
whoever got rid of the 5 on this sign did a pretty clean job. in all reality, you CAN actually take this corner at about 30. good lord, if the tourists and elderly sunday drivers going through the park take heed of this sign, i will never get where i am going. I suppose it just balances out the local maianbar and bundeena hoons a bit.
Edited: February 21st, 2010
firstly, i would like to thank the wonderful ruling ALP government of NSW for allowing me to take this photo – because, if it was not for them, i would never be able to have captured it. if we had good transport infrastructure, i would never have been able to take this shot. i would be doing 60 km/ph, instead of 0 km/ph.
this photo was taken out of a car window, in the sydney harbour tunnel, late on an average friday afternoon peak hour (6:24 pm), with a shutter-speed of 1/15 of a second.
for those of you who aren’t down with shutter speeds – that means i was not going anywhere too fast – in fact, i was stationary.
i also have nice clean shots of emergency exits no’s. 11 to 16. i could have had more shots of the other ones, but i thought i had taken enough photos by that time.
i give my personal thanks to the ALP powerbrokers (tripodi, della bosca, sartor et al), and my good mate Bob Carr for running the city that i love so much, into the ground. No thanks to Rees or Iemma, who are purely shadow puppets placed by the others named. Good work boys – i am glad that you and all your developer and banker mates have lined your pockets with gold, under the table, at the expense of the future and well-being of a city of over 4 million people.
shame on you kevin rudd for towing the party line and not pulling this mafioso into line.
i know there are not many options out there at the moment, but PLEASE DON’T ANYONE vote these corrupt pricks and their dodgey mates into office for at least 10 years. Educate yourselves on preferential voting.
If there are 60 boxes on your ballot form, mark them all. It may take an extra few minutes, but that way, your vote for the greens will not become a vote for labor, for example. Don’t let these criminals get your vote. if you agree with any of the above and are a facebook user, please join this group.
Edited: August 28th, 2009
is it the person who buys (or leases) and drives it, or this?
Edited: August 27th, 2009
probably not the safest thing, but better than driving, shooting, on the mobile, smoking and eating drive-thru.
Tom Ugly’s Bridge, for anyone who wants to know..
Edited: August 16th, 2009
Unfortunately, this is about the closest I got to enjoying that magnificent sunset today – mostly thanks to being trapped in traffic in the Harbour Tunnel.
Am utterly devastated, I was hoping to get to the beach or at least the Harbour foreshore to enjoy it.
Good luck to everyone who got a chance to really take it in – it really was something special.
Edited: July 16th, 2009
