In the beginning was the photos

Of course I’ve known about it for a long time.

Over the years, I have watched Dick's photographs grow to fill many, many sheets of transparencies.

And a point that I couldn't make in the documentary is that his subject matter extends well beyond petrol stations & milk-bars.

There's his series on rusted letters scratched into rusted metal.

And those artful uncommon shots of what I'd call "common weeds" - now they would at home in any book of Australian fauna.

Did I mention the fantastic collection of fluorescent coloured objects that Dick has photographed – from pink caravans through to lemon yellow motor-mowers?

Lost Highways is really just one thin slice of a much bigger pie. A damn fine appetiser.