I don’t actually like cars, and I haven’t got one, but that doesn’t mean I won’t photograph them. This night I was trying out time exposures. I thought if I could capture some of the feeling of frantic activity on my street corner, my picture might get to be the picture of the week.

I did enter the contest with one of these pictures, the one of the long bus, but the winner was a shot of a little girl with huge sunglasses pretending to drive some kind of derelict muscle car in her dad’s driveway. It was a great picture and I absolutely understand why it won the coveted “pic of the week” honour. It’s hard to compete with a little girl in big sunglasses.

Anyway, I still like my pictures. I’m going to post a couple of them. I like the first one for its moody neon-night feeling, and the second for the blur of the long bus slipping through traffic like a wet bar of soap.

Rainy night

Bus