Inconsequential dashcam views of Canberra
Restricted very much in my opportunities to go out gathering images for the last four to five months, I recently decided to explore the use of my dash camera to assemble a series of photographs.
Using the recorded videos of my day-to-day travels around Canberra taking my wife and/ or myself to appointments as my starting point, I looked through them seeking moments that I might convert to still images.
What I now have is a growing series revealing viewpoints I would not normally be able to use – as stopping my car on sometimes busy roads to take shots through the windscreen, or standing on the same roads – busy or not – to take shots from the same position is not an option I generally would use.
I deliberately positioned the dashcam to include part of the car’s dash at the bottom of the images. Windscreen wipers, raindrops, sun flare, dirty glass, reflections in the glass – all such “blemishes” have been left in deliberately creating warts and-all inconsequential scenes of the national capital. “Wartworks” if you like.
A selection of the images created so far have been published as a portfolio on pages 15 – 22 of the April 2023 issue of Free Expressions (the monthly magazine of the Australian Photographic Society’s Contemporary Group).
The full magazine can be downloaded here.
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