I imagine the car wrecks that litter the Australian outback partly inspired films like Mad Max. I could spend an entire road-trip stopping and photographing these hulks. You’re always looking for something interesting on long lonely roads in the middle of nowhere and the cars remind you that people drive through the middle of the country often enough to lose their way, run out of fuel, and break down. More than one overseas tourist has become lost in the Aussie bush and perished in the heat!


Likewise for abandoned train carriages that have seen better days and could whisper the dreams of passengers long vanished. Rather than litter the outback, they often sit abandoned in old railyards in worn-out towns, languising next to tracks overgrown with weeds.

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Why do they leave them there? It’s litter.
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There’s not much out there, and it’s a 3000km road. I guess cars break down or are abandoned, among other things. They do get cleaned up from time to time.
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That’s good to know. In the mean
time you have a captive subject.
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A number of them seem to be upside-down . . . oh, right! . . . Australia, the land down under.
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Haha…most things are upside down here !
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