IkoStar

Ok, this one doesn’t really count either because it is non-local in space and time, and part of a bigger thing… so I don’t actually visit it when I’m in that country etc - but I do attempt to take a photograph of it whenever I see it, which isn’t as easy as it sounds.

It’s the Scene from Casino Royale (which is the best James Bond movie ever) just before the really hectic car crash… James’s chick (the one with the pointy nose) gets kidnapped and he realises only seconds too late and they go driving off in pursuit into the night (which is a bit of a stretch to be honest - I mean how did the baddies know that James would twig right at that moment?… with just enough time to tie up the pointy nose chick and leave her tied up in the middle of the road. What if some other car had come along? Or a truck? Or a steam roller? Mmmm? What then? What about one of those street-sweepers with the massive spinny things? It doesn’t bear thinking about)

Anyway, this shot is beautiful… it’s this silver-blue bit of road snaking off into the darkness and these two sets of taillights go flying (like tye fighters) down it into the distance etc. The shape of it is aerodynamic - it looks like heat-trail left by a slalom skier… it probably (as is always the way with these thing) resolves to a simple 3d quadratic equation. My brother says it’s probably this racing track in France, and he should know because he made TreeBeard off Lord of the Rings.

Treebeard off Lord of the Rings

I’ve never managed to photograph the actual tail lights. It’s quite difficult - you need to set up a tripod and make a couple of trial shots to get the light right. Just pointing and clicking is too hit and miss. Point + Click = Hit + Miss. I always panic and hit the button multiple times etc.

Here’s another photo of a racing track in France. Just for the sake of it like.

It’ near Marseilles. I took it out the window of a plane a couple of years back after the French conned me into eating sea-urchins, which was a massive massive mistake.