Here are the products of a little project I’ve had bubbling away.
🚦 Live Traffic NSW have automated cameras all over the state, and over eight in the Hawkesbury. I programmed a script to scrape an image from each at around noon for two years (August 2022 – Dec 2024) and compiled the ~700+ images into some time lapses. Hat-tip to Transport for NSW for providing technical help to make these images downloadable.
🎥 For the geeks, stabilisation and generative upscaling was used to improve their quality.
🎱 The sharp-eyed among you may detect the shadows of tall objects describing a lopsided figure-8 ‘Analemma’ (look it up) on the ground over the course of two years, an astronomical phenomenon tracing the earth’s tilt and orbit around the sun.
🌊 Hawkesbury had floods in October 2022 (7.4m), March 2024 (9.2m) and June 2024 (8.7m), visible briefly in these sequences.
🌳 I love seeing the blooming of grass and flowers as the seasons pass like waves, like the traveller from H.G Wells ‘Time Machine’.
There are eight videos in the series.
North Richmond Bridge
Wisemans Ferry Road at Cattai Creek
Yarramundi Bridge
Sackville Ferry South
Windsor Bridge
Wisemans Ferry North
Webbs Creek Ferry
Webbs Creek West