As an avid art student I try to do something “artistic” everyday. It is something that I love and in the past two years I have learned a lot through my course with the Learning Connexion. The second love of my life (actually he is the first) is my husband Paul and throughout 2009 he was working as a truck driver usually doing the route from Warkworth, or more specifically Leigh, to Tauranga. Because the trip is so boring and long, he asked if I would start doing some trips with him – just for the company really.Well I have to admit the first couple of trips were really boring but I did notice that there were a lot of picturesque places along our route. The problem was that even when I took my camera along to try and get some decent shots, Paul was not able to stop the truck so I could take them. Either there was no where for him to park a large truck, or we were on a deadline. So the idea of taking photos from a moving truck started to gain momentum and I decided, given that the camera was digital anyway, that I would see what I could capture on our trip – from a moving truck. The images in this book are the best ones culled out of literally thousands that I took on various trips along the same route.
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