OK, Technically I'm not following the instructions to the letter. I did not go for a ride in a friend's car. It was my car and I was driving AND taking pictures. I know, it is a stupid thing to do, but it is not the first time and I have found (like with the Blind Photos) the added difficulty to the photography brings about some nice effects.



Oh, and there was another difficulty as I was trying to take pictures at night. And I was on a trip from San Francisco to Oakland, so there was driving and photographing the bridge (I know, some would find that simple, but driving the bridge still, even after years, gives me the heebee geebees).

But I'm ahead of myself. The real reason I started snapping the pictures was that I found myself next to a tow truck that was actually towing another tow truck. I mean how many times are you gonna see that? One was a flatbed with the other piggybacked, but still, the image was sort of surreal.

Unfortunately, taking pictures of a moving vehicle from another moving vehicle at night is problematic at best. First, I just couldn't get in a place where I could get a good shot to begin with, and when I was "in the ballpark" the movement just made pretty blurs of all the lights, with not detail of any of the objects actually being photographed (a boon to lightwriters everywhere).



I love the way these pictures are so abstract, and I love the lightning jags the lights take. And the colors are so bright, so pure, even with muddy junk in the background.



I finally caught up to the tow truck at a stop light, but I was behind it. Here's a sideways and blurry image which doesn't really show much.



Here's a clearer, upright picture.



Unfortunately, from behind and in the dark you still don't really get much of an idea of the impact the original image of the piggy backed tow truck had on my head, but at least I got SOMETHING. It was here that I moved onto the bridge approach while the tow truck moved along on its own path.

On the bridge I started noticing how the lights elongated at speed and how the shape of the bridge gave a sort of big x look to things. I don't know how to explain it but the geek in me thought it resembled a battle with or in an x-wing fighter from star wars.



More evocative (to me, anyway) than actually representative, but it works for me anyway.

One last picture (plus a couple below I didn't produce here in the text) that shows a warmer, friendler bridge, with a lovely yellow light wave against the left wall.



Will I continue to drive and take pictures at the same time? Probably, to the point of an almost guarantee. Will I do it on the bridge again? No... unless I see another damned tow-truck piggyback, then all bets are off.