Road Trip - Sydney to Brisbane (Warning: Large Post!)

[Pehpsi]

Hi all.

Love my road trips, so when the interstate trips are on I hop aboard the big-rig with my old man and head off. This time was Sydney/Brisbane with a 40ft container of PS3s worth $3m and weighing 9 tons. The comfy Scania is only a single-bogie and couldn't handle the weight, so the Sterling was called to duty. With no AC or Cruise Control, my old man was kept busy the whole time.

We left at 5am on Monday and got home just before midnight on Tuesday.

I rarely use my 12-24mm, so decided to take only this lens attached to my D70. There's no time for stopping, so 99% of the pics were taken out the truck window and most at 100km/h which was interesting to say the least. I was shocked at how un-blurry most of the pics came out considering the speed we were doing.. The cam was on Aperture Priority the whole way with ISO Auto or 800+.

Anyway, here's a few snapshots I took. Not really worth the PP, so I just used Auto Levels/Exposure

Cheers.

[surenj]

Like your series... Sounds like hard work, driving for long distances like you do... BTW you may be able to take out some of the last few images...They are all evoking the same feeling of movement, chaos anyways so one might be enough.

[Pehpsi]

Thanks for the reply mate

[blacknstormy]

Hey James - great series, and glad you had a safe trip
Some of those shots are amazing considering the conditions you were shooting under !!! I really like the shot of the clouds over the cane fields, and have sent you a pm..... well done !!!
(I agree with Surenj re cutting a few of the final shots though )

[mistadasO]

Well done enjoyed your photos keep on truckin.

[matt_au_70]

Great story and images to go along with it.

Much better view from up high , thanks for sharing these.

Matt

[ozimax]

Frederickton, Nambucca, Murwillumbah bypass, Urunga...I know all these places like the back of my hand...great series of shots, you really had me interested!

Ozi

[Pehpsi]

Thanks lads, glad you enjoyed the post

The road trip was just what I needed. It's great to just drop everything and hit the road for a solid few days and check out the towns and countryside along the way..

[blacknstormy]

James has given me permission to post this, so this is a reworked shot of the cane and storm clouds shot from above. I kept on coming back to it, and well, this is the result ...
Thanks James

[Pehpsi]

Lovin' the rework, looks great.

Here's a few more snaps of bridges from along the way:



















Thanks again..

[Greg B]

Great series James, I really enjoyed the whole thing. Some shots are routine, some are unusual, all are interesting and engaging.

Great post.

[surenj]

Great reworked shot blackandstormy!

[No Body]

James. Great series. They bring back some terrific memories for me when I used to travel with my dad on school holidays. Air con, cruise control! One truck dad had had armstrong steering.

Regards, Neil.

[ebarra8]

Wonderful series of photos. Good to see what a truckies view is like on the road.

[Pehpsi]

No probs, glad y'all enjoyed, makes the post worthwhile.

[Analog6]

Terrific effort - know all the road so well it's intersting seeing your take on it. And what a great exercise taking only one lens - well done. You've told the astory so well.

And what a good exercise it would be for a grou to to - drive somewhere and all have only one lens with restricitions on size.

[kitchenwench]

Aww, I can't see any of the original images :/ but BlacknStormy, that pp is absolutely amazing! Hard to judge how much has changed without seeing the original. but it's beautiful any which way you look at it :)

[Dave-D40]

Aww, I can't see any of the original images :/ but BlacknStormy, that pp is absolutely amazing! Hard to judge how much has changed without seeing the original. but it's beautiful any which way you look at it

I can only see the pp image aswell