Top five places to photograph your car in Sydney

If you want to take a good car photo, you’ll need the right location. Doesn’t matter if you want to show off your metal masterpiece to mates via social media or sell it on the carsales site, there are ways to make it look nice and stand out from the crowd.

Sure, you could wheel it onto the street and take an image among the wheelie bins and power poles but if you’re in Sydney, go the extra yards and check out these five much more interesting – and picturesque – locations.

This location is a gimme for anyone on the North Shore. Scenic Clontarf Beach is a Sydney Harbour inlet with a small car park that for the car photographer offers some luxury homes as a backdrop. Even better, there’s access for boaties to launch so you can drive right onto the sand for a beachy vibe – probably better for a HiLux than an MX-5. Then, sit back and cull your shots at the Sandy Bar Café over a flat white and smashed avo on toast.

Here’s a handy bonus: not only is the car park at Bobbin Head a pleasant place to photograph your car with water, bushland and boats in the background, the drive though Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to get there is a refreshing change from urban Sydney. It’s about 40 minutes from the CBD and once you’ve snapped some shots, maybe with the Cockle Creek bridge behind, try breakfast or lunch at the Waterside Bistro in the marina.

This lonely piece of tarmac is only a stone’s throw from Sydney Airport and for the budding car photographer, offers some peace and quiet without getting in anyone’s way. The vibe is industrial, given Port Botany’s shipping container and refinery background, but there are also water backdrops along the road itself. Some easy options for showing off your car.

The money shot for any car photo in Sydney is, of course, to get the Harbour Bridge in the background. At Blues Point Reserve the bridge is barely 500 metres away so it’s more a matter of fitting it all in than actually seeing the structure. Head to the end of Blues Point Road and it dead-ends at the water and if you’re lucky, the concrete pad will be devoid of other cars. Really keen photographers could try a night shoot with ferries and other boats lighting up the harbour below the bridge.

If you’re close to the city you’ll know battling the traffic and parking cops makes finding a quiet photo location difficult. But just behind Darling Harbour, Distillery Drive dead-ends at a turn-around that allows you to stop and take a quick shot. There are medium-rise apartment buildings that look interesting but better still, glimpses of the Anzac Bridge add visual drama especially when it is lit up in the evening.

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