It was a dark and rainy morning, but there was an interesting interplay of light between the illuminated advertisements on the street furniture.

Before me, a Johnnie Walker ad asks "Where will a stride take you?" (You really need to have selected the Original size from the links below to see it.)

Reflected from behind me, another ad suggests that the answer might be the Bleak City Comedy Festival... and who knows, it may be right. Either way, it's a useful reminder that I need to be taking more strides, more often.

In between the two... yes, that's me. Or my silhouette, anyway, which is as close as you'll come to seeing an actual self portrait in these galleries.

In an act of serendipity rather than planning, the guy on the left of frame is also engaged in a stride, though his is merely taking him to the other side of Alfred Street from Circular Quay railway station.

For those who doubt the advantages of doing a PAD project, there is no way on earth I would have attempted a shot like this hand held a month ago. (Though I have to admit a small amount of surprise that it turned out as (relatively) well as it did.) I took some additional shots which were "closer in" to the ad making it much clearer, but I prefer the "tunnel" effect that the bus shelters and the road gave in this one even though it was at the price of legibility.