Meander

A 22-second exposure of a winding rock cutting on the Great Ocean Road between Lorne and Aireys Inlet. Light trails from passing vehicles curve through the bend, red tail-lights and white headlights tracing opposite arcs along the asphalt. Erosion-control netting covers the cliff face to the left. A guardrail fitted with red reflectors runs the length of the bend, dense coastal scrub fills the right shoulder, and a pale sky sits above the distant water.

Construction of the Great Ocean Road began on 19 September 1919, worked by around 3,000 returned servicemen and dedicated to those killed in the First World War. It is described as the world's largest war memorial. The road reached Lorne in 1922 and was completed in 1932. Every bend in it was cut by hand into cliff faces like the one holding the left of this frame. Brett photographed this on the evening of 20 October 2017, on the Nikon D810. The picture is motion held still: the road carved into the rock, the traffic that uses it reduced to two ribbons of light, and the shape of the cutting legible only because the cars have traced it out.