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I didn't know two years ago, when I did a test shot with my 10 stop ND filter, what I would do with it. I ended up with a busy Saturday afternoon motorway completely cleared of traffic. Cool I thought, one for the archives...
Searching for something else I stumbled across this motorway shot and then I had an idea; why not make it look all apocalyptic, so I had another go at doing that.. More layers than I've every used, with some textures for the road, and an inverted faux infra then super desaturated to finish. Then added my favourite stock figure, as a lone survivor heading to who knows where (well, to give you a clue, Junction 16, Stoke on Trent is the next turn off)?
Even though it's cloudy, rainy, foggy, thunder storming, one after another, still had some fun with my "Model", lol.
Eastbound Conrail TV2H works at the Pitcairn Intermodal Facility in Pitcairn, PA on April 25, 1998 as eastbound Amfreight No. 40, the "Three Rivers," passes on the main line.
Anna's Hummingbird ..we named this one Freeway who likes to chase the other hummers away from feeders out on the property..he needs to learn to share! It's literally like a freeway when he's around..lol!
Wow! You all made my New Year happy & bright ~ Flickr Explore 12/30/22 #371.
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I-5 cuts through Seattle. Traffic jams have returned almost to pre-pandemic levels.
There are a lot of windows in those skyscrapers.
Happy Window Wednesday!
The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. It is the principal route through the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortcut between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley. It is considered one of the most important freeways in the history of Los Angeles and instrumental in the development of the San Fernando Valley. It is the second oldest freeway in Los Angeles (after the Arroyo Seco Parkway). From its southern end at the East Los Angeles Interchange to its intersection with the Ventura Freeway in the southeastern San Fernando Valley (the Hollywood Split), it is signed as part of U.S. Route 101. It is then signed as State Route 170 north to its terminus at the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5).
Plans for the Hollywood Freeway officially began in 1924 when Los Angeles voters approved a "stop-free express highway" between Downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The first segment of the Hollywood Freeway built was a one and a half mile stretch through the Cahuenga Pass. That segment opened on June 15, 1940. It was then known as the "Cahuenga Pass Freeway." Pacific Electric Railway trolleys ran down the center of this freeway until 1952. The next section of the freeway that stretched from the San Fernando Valley to Downtown Los Angeles opened on April 16, 1954 at a cost of $55 million. The final section, north of the Ventura Freeway to the Golden State Freeway was completed in 1968.
A year after the Hollywood Freeway opened, it was used by an average of 183,000 vehicles a day, almost double the capacity it was designed to carry. Actor Bob Hope called it the "biggest parking lot in the world" in his routine.
The segment through Hollywood was the first to be built through a heavily populated area and requiring the moving or demolition of many buildings, including Rudolph Valentino's former home in Whitley Heights. The freeway was also designed to curve around KTTV Studios and Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Much of the rubble and debris from the buildings removed for the freeway's construction was dumped into Chávez Ravine, the current home to Dodger Stadium.
In 1967, the Hollywood Freeway was the first freeway in California that had ramp meters.
Near the Vermont Avenue exit, there's a seemingly over-wide center strip now filled with trees. This is where the never-built Beverly Hills Freeway was to merge with the Hollywood Freeway. Plans for the Beverly Hills Freeway were halted in the 1970s.
The Hollywood Freeway is an expansion of the original Cahuenga Parkway, a short six-lane freeway that ran through the Cahuenga Pass between Hollywood and Studio City. The Cahuenga Parkway featured Pacific Electric Railway "Red Car" tracks in its median, but by the 1950s these tracks were out of service due to radical reductions in Red Car service. The Pacific Electric right-of-way later accommodated an additional lane in each direction.
The second location of Los Angeles High School was in the path of the freeway. The school moved to its third and current location in 1917. The school buildings were converted into a school for boys with truancy problems until 1948, when it was demolished to make way for the freeway.
I took an unusual turn while walking in the Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve and got to a freeway underpass when I heared a loud call, obviously amplified by the concrete walls, of striated pardalote. Soon after I spotted the bird and later...
(Pardalotus striatus)
Looking east on the Cahill Expressway.
Directly above Circular Quay.
Sydney.
The walkway alongside the expressway is a 'gem' of a location for photography of Sydney harbour. It can be accessed by convict-built sandstone steps at Macquarie Street or Harrington Street.
I will be re-visiting this expressway at night - after work next week - to get some 'different' Vivid perspectives. First of-course there will be a compulsory flat white coffee and a 'coffee crumble tart' at 'The Rocks Cafe' - Sydney's oldest cafe, circa 1867. See:
www.therockscafe.com.au/#about
Oh, and here's Aretha Franklin with the super groovy 'Freeway of Love':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Food' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
Mount Shasta over the I-5 freeway somewhere south of Yreka, California. This is from a bridge over the road, a freeway exit that serves only local roads.
The road photo means I will be traveling soon, it's only for one week, this time I will have a new laptop with me instead of the iPad, so I will be able to upload and participate along the way, unless the laptop or wifi sucks, or something goes wrong.
DL PT97 with a skittles lashup rolls along the foggy Delaware River beginning its trip west to Scranton.
FREEWAY is a Hopper Dredger that was built in 2015 and is sailing under the flag of Cyprus. Quoted from the Marine Traffic website
Vélez-Rubio ( Almería ).
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