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GRAHAM HOWE - GARY JUNCTION HIGHWAY, WA “Just go straight on … you can’t miss it …” Well, Graham Howe didn’t miss it. He went straight on east on the Gary Junction Highway in search of some fuel and stopped briefly to take the winning competition picture. Why the stop - besides the inspiration of a wonderful red landscape at sunset? Besides the cooperation of the moon stopping at just the right part of the sky? Besides the chance to stretch the legs after a long stretch of road? Well … the road itself. As Graham mentioned in his covering letter, some roads do go like that - they become corrugated with use over long stretches. That banding you see cross the red gravel makes for a great picture element - a sort of repeated pattern. The artist in you revels. The fact that it is juddering away on your suspension and your nerves for kilometre
Well done Graham! You’ve won a
$200
GIFT VOUCHER from
after kilometre is another thing. You just have to stop and let the rattling stop for a few minutes. And you need to look at a horizon that isn’t bouncing for a while. That’s probably just what Graham did when he took this picture. And good on him for sending it in. Western Australia, like western Canada, the Ukraine and Mongolia, can supply high quality horizon, and a lot of it. Sometimes you can get it in full 360º and keep it for half a day. Sometimes you don’t need to Western 4W Driver #121 |
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