I've always enjoyed shooting photos on California's highways, but never had the guts to get close-up shots of the occupants of nearby cars and risk dome-ventilation courtesy of road-ragers' firearms. Photographer Andrew Bush, however, does have the guts, and he's been rewarded with an amazing collection of photographs. …

Back in 1988, I hopped in my MGB-GT and headed south from Oakland, taking a photograph out the windshield every five miles until I got to the Grapevine, just north of Los Angeles. Yes, I worked a full-manual SLR while driving a twitchy sports car, and reloaded film while driving as well (thus losing the right to…

From the same early-90s road trip that produced Somewhere Between Buttonwillow and Twisselmann Road, here's a quasi-self-portrait shot from the dash of a '65 Impala.

Backing away in photography-geek horror from the blurry-ass Instamatic 126 stuff and returning to good ol' 35mm Tri-X black-and-white shots of the Los Angeles-San Francisco artery that is Interstate 5, we find ourselves in a dusty patch of Kern County in the Impala, circa 1991. Note the multiple shades of primer on the …

In addition to shooting 35mm black-and-white shots of my endlessly-repeated I-5 drives back in the late 80s, I did a lot of highway photography using thrift-store 126 and 110 cameras. I won't make y'all deal with the headache-inducing 110 stuff (or the even more maddening pinhole-camera shots), but here's a 126…

Well, now that I've broken out the pain-in-ass SCSI slide scanner for the Buddha-Equipped Olds I-5 photo (and in honor of Srs. Bumbeck y Johnson heading back to Pedro after their Pebble Beach triumphs), I might as well dig into my vast collection of Interstate 5 photos for another shot. This one was shot from a '65…

Seeing Bumbeck and Johnson delivering live reports from their I-5 journey made me recall a time when I had both a darkroom and a long-distance girlfriend with a '78 Olds wagon sporting the rare Dashboard Buddha option. So it's straight to the slide scanner with this shot from my favorite road-trip highway, circa 1987.