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Telegraph Road

            Telegraph Road
Dire Straits

A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came walking down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their load
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road
Then came the mines, then came the ore
Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river
And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
Yes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the Telegraph Road

Second image from our snow filled morning in the Blue Mountains. Drove up to the gate at the fire trail at Narrowneck, threw the backpacks on with all the gear, and started hiking.
I had been up here before during summer, and knew that the trails were covered by twisted gum trees. I was hoping that the snow would be heavy enough up there....and it was.
This image is the EXACT image I had in mind, before I left Sydney that morning. Its extremely gratifying for a photographer, when you put in the early hours, the hard yards on foot, and then everything just falls into place, and you come away with the planned shot.
Hope you like "Telegraph Road"
Cheers, Mike
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Taken on: August 10, 2019

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Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	35mm
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Exposure Bias:	+0.7 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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