Last night was just another Wednesday night at the Perth Motorplex - until it wasn't.

Our regularly scheduled off-street drag racing and burnout program was cut short by a summer storm that brought hail, thunder and lightning.

Thankfully I ended up with a photo I'm pretty happy with out of it all - all handheld and no lighting trigger involved.

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A couple of Black Swans and their cygnets at Tomato Lake Park in Belmont, Western Australia. #ThisIsWA #WAtheDreamState #HighOctanePhotos #NaturePhotography

Throwing it back a couple of years, this is one of our favourite breweries, Yallingup's Wild Hop. The brews are constantly changing and consistently impressive, while the food on offer is always amazing.

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Following the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco, the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge began a major overhaul, with a seismic refit on the western span and a complete replacement of the eastern span.

This August 2009 photo shows the progress of the replacement of the eastern span at that time, as seen from Treasure Island.

The new eastern span was completed in 2013, and the original was completely removed by the end of 2017.

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Going back to 2008 for this shot. Perth's University of Western Australia has a number of pedestrian subways to access the campus, this is one passing under Mounts Bay Road.

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A few weeks ago, we packed up the family and headed down to a spot on the banks of Wellington Dam. Almost completely off-grid (not quite out of mobile range, but getting there)

Always a great time when we get away with this crew, and this was no exception.

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"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert"

Back in 2010, we stopped for lunch in (I think) Barstow and when we pulled up, I snapped this shot of the less visible part of an old motel next door.

Unfortunately, for me, this photo predates my GPS logging and Google Timeline histories so I don't know for sure where we were at the time.

These days the camera logs and encodes GPS co-ordinates itself, so we know a lot more.

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The Sourdough Saloon in Beatty, Nevada, is one of the closest watering holes to Death Valley and a favourite haunt of many of the engineering and test driver teams that visit the valley to test and calibrate vehicles in the extremes of that unique climate.

Many of these teams leave parts of the cars they have tested behind on the walls of the bar and many other visitors sign bank notes and post them on the walls as well

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Back in 2009, I bought a car off eBay from Nevada, had it shipped to my brothers place in San Jose, California and flew in from Perth, Western Australia to drive it around the Bay area while I was in town for my brothers wedding.

This is that car, a 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Formal Sedan, photographed on that 2009 trip outside one of eBay's San Jose offices.

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This is a 12 year old shot from a road trip I'll never forget.

5000 miles in a 1970 Cadillac I'd bought off eBay the year before, had shipped to my brothers place in San Jose and flown in from Australia to do a little work and drive around the local area while in town for his wedding.

A year later I headed back over and put together a road trip of a lifetime including LA, the Bonneville salt flats, Yosemite National Park, Death Valley and much more.

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Back in 2009, after many years of talking about doing it "one day" I was spurred into action to commit to one of my bucket list items. I'd always wanted to head to the USA, buy a classic car and head out on a big road trip. It took 2 years to tick the whole lot off, but we did it.

Here's a shot from the first visit in 2009, my 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay.

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A few photos from the Australian Top Fuel championship round recently held at the Perth Motorplex.

While I have a day job that puts food on the table, huge amounts of the rest of the week are dedicated to shooting and editing shots from drag racing and burnouts around Western Australia (mostly at the Motorplex in Kwinana)

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A couple of shots from a trip to Peaceful Bay in the south of Western Australia. A great place to explore, but also great to just chill and do nothing if that's what you need as well..

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Not sure how many #dragracing tragics hang out on Mastodon, but here are a few shots from a recent event at the #PerthMotorplex here in Western Australia - I just finished editing these for the website and still have a few more meets to finish off before I can say I'm caught up - but it feels good to be making progress..

The full gallery is over on www.HighOctanePhotos.com under the 'Featured Galleries' section.

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Natures Window and a walk down to the amazing Murchison River - from a day trip out of Kalbarri in Western Australia.

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