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Light trails under Argyle Bridge

Cars parked on both sides of the road with red and white lines from moving cars lights traveling through a dark tunnel under a bridge.

The Rocks is my favourite place to stay in Sydney. It has a lot of history and you’re very close to the top tourist attractions. This photograph is taken from Cumberland Street looking west along Argyle Street. The Argyle Bridge on the CBD side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Out of frame above this was 8 lanes of traffic. This photograph was a 30 second long exposure. Argyle Street doesn’t get much traffic and I wanted to capture cars driving both ways for the red and white light trails.

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Auckland Lightpath and light trails

City skyline featuring a colourful footbridge and busy highway and red and white blurred lights from traffic moving below the camera.

I remember first seeing the pink cyclepath from a friend’s apartment in the Urba Residences many years ago. My photo from 2013 of light trails in Auckland captures the same view in the evening. This latest photograph shows the view in 2025 on a winter Monday morning. A lot more traffic moving in and out of the city. An 8 second long exposure with the camera on a tripod on the Hopetoun Street Bridge. One of the more subtle details of this photograph is the line white light trail on the horizon to the left edge of the image, this is the Auckland Harbour Bridge. 

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Trails of light through Napier

This is a style of photography I haven’t tried for a few years. It took half an hour of standing around and waiting for traffic to come from north to south along Marine Parade. This roundabout is in the heart of Napier. You can see The Dome behind. The road to the right is Browning Street. Most of the cars were coming up Browning Street or coming towards the camera along Marine Parade. Light trail photography can be quite unpredictable. Especially when the lights are coming from moving vehicles that you don’t know where they’re heading. With headlights being so much brighter than the red of trail lights, too many cars coming towards the camera don’t make for a pleasing photograph. In the end this was a motorhome heading around the roundabout and south along the parade. It was a 5 second long single exposure.

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The Bund and Zhongshan Road at night

The Waibaidu Bridge in the foreground connects traffic along the Zhongshan Road. Which winds around the curves of the Huangpu River. This was the view from my hotel room, the Broadway Mansions Hotel Shanghai. I forget which floor this was from but I would stay there again. It is in an ideal location for exploring The Bund and tourist areas of central Shanghai. I’m not sure the names of the buildings along the river. The dark area across the bridge is Huangpu Park which is lovely to explore.