Crosstown Traffic

You jump in front of my car when you,
you know all the time that
Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a ride

You're just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town

I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run
Tire tracks all across your back
I can see you had your fun
But darlin' can't you see my signals turn from green to red
And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead

You're just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I got better things on the other side of town

(Jimi Hendrix)

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lunaryuna AGAINST CENSORSHIP [deleted] says:

HOLY MOLY, Timo, what a well conceived and executed diagram of passage of time!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Eris23 [forever oldskool] says:

blinker galore!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

wufgaeng against censorship says:

Jimi would like it - it fits to his music
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Saffanna says:

love it.....
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Big Dog Video says:

Love it.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

MY LIFE AS A HAINT [deleted] says:

Brilliant!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Little Lightshow [deleted] says:

Great
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

mseidman says:

And the winner is....!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

IHP says:

Great work on the colors! Love it!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

I'll fight you for that sandwich says:

this just made my evening
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

thowi says:

Just saw it on the nikonpoint and rushed to your flickr profile to add it to my favs.... really great work.... was worth it!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

SteelePop [deleted] says:

very cool

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Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

drayde says:

Very cool shot! Was this taken there?
Von wo aus hast Du das gemacht? Du bist doch nicht etwa auf das Schildergestell geklettert, das da über die Straße geht? Oder ist das der Grund für das "guerilla photography" tag? Wenn das so ist: toller Einsatz! Hat sich gelohnt!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

tschnitzlein [soon to be back on Flickr] says:

Yep - that's the place, and yes, I did climb up that display stand.

There's a fairly comfortable gangway up there, with enough place to install a tripod (and no "Zutritt verboten" sign). But - I'd only recommend climbing up there in summer - it's a very windy, cold place, and taking pictures like this requires spending many hours up there ... I actually did three shooting sessions in that place before my pictures were technically good enough for this project.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

delta25charlie [deleted] says:

catching medicine colors
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Falling Into Place [deleted] says:

Awesome shot!
Found in the Vestige group.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

in_deep says:

nice desktop wallpaper ;)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Greg Marshall says:

Very nice - love the dashes created by the indicator lights - I've got a similar shot but with an ambulance's blue flashing lights dotted across the shot...

A fave :)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

jimi_hendrix says:

this picture is exactly the type of thing that hendrix would want to have as an lp cover for this song...i think that u shood make some more pictures...y not try purple haze, i think that u cood really make it come to life
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

peter.b~ [deleted] says:

bravo - Crosstown Traffic gets a fav now
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Bibimorvarid says:

Efforts well worth it, great story behind the shots.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Buttersweet says:

fantastic timo. i don't know how i missed this. how are you doing my friend? spring in your territory yet? i took two of your photos and tried to do some work on them - the taj- just no way to make that place better looking.... haha. so it's back to the drawing board. smooches. >:D
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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Tommy Bass says:

Incredible photo. One of the best time exposures I've ever seen.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

tschnitzlein [soon to be back on Flickr] says:

Hi Tommy, thanks for your comment.

No, this is no simple time exposure, and this image wouldn't possibly have turned out like this had I just made one big huge time exposure. In that case, the background would be almost white. :-)

This is a time panorama, i.e. I used about 100 individual, optimized exposures to capture the traffic lights, the background (road), and the individual light trails, which I shot in one continuous session during one night (I had to do a couple of test sessions for this before ...). I compiled them together in Photoshop using lots of individual masks. The overall photoshop work time for this image must have been somewhere around 20 hours.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

picture_addicted says:

Great shot. Love it. Now I know for what kind of stuff I can use my Photoshop as well. Cool!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

amcharg says:

Fantastico!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

anoldent says:

I saw this in the Artistic Photo Group difficult shots discussion. Outstanding work. I think your achievement here has well justified the effort. A favorite.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

hero3279 says:

nice pic!!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

klevo! says:

incredible!
You are invited to place this outstanding photo as Photo-Of-The-Day

Photo-Of-The-Day

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muy gravy! says:

wow!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Tarky7 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Raelians Rulez, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group. i don't think you are a cultist...but we luv your creations ne way..pls post...so we know what we aren't looking for. =^-^=
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

sirskimuch says:

the turn signals making the yellow dashed lines is really neat.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Bennington Purcell says:

What a great image! i love the colors and love the exposure control.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

tim.mcrae says:

great colours. love the night/motion shots.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Lauren Elizabeth07 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called City Lights Amaze Me, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

JMartinezStudios.com says:

nice image.. i ran into it on STUMBLE..

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The_Human_Gale says:

Really, really good work...the light looks (almost) tangible, as if you could touch it and be whisked away by its pull.
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