16/03/2026
I almost didn’t go.
A photographer friend invited me to the Classic Cars & Bikes Run at Century City. I expected to glance at a few cars and leave.
Instead, I slowed down.
Cars from the 1930s to the 1950s filled the street like a moving museum, and I began noticing something unexpected: each one had a personality.
Rather than photographing the cars as a whole, I focused on fragments — a brass horn, the curve of a mirror, the wooden frame of a cabin...
Composition became a way of storytelling.
Depth of field allowed certain details to emerge while others faded into bokeh.
Later, editing became another narrative choice.
Black & white can reveal form and contrast, but for these images I kept the colour. The brass, wood, chrome and red paint carry the material memory of these machines.
Sometimes storytelling in photography is not about the entire subject.
Sometimes it lives in the details.
Swipe to meet a few mechanical personalities.
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