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Hamish Reid

@hamishreidphoto.bsky.social

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No one ever looked at one of my photos and said “what a lovely landscape!”. Snapshots from a life, in no particular order. All mine unless otherwise noted; dates approximate. Unintentional do-overs likely. Main website: https://photography.hamishreid.com

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 1d

First Lake, on the Lakes trail 9,000-something feet up out of Big Pine Canyon, in California's Eastern Sierra a few years ago. One of my fave day hikes…

#photography #LandscapePhotography #StrollsWithAniPhone #EasternSierra #California

An emerald green mountain lake (a tarn, we'd have said) lies in a valley high up in a rather dry-looking Eastern Sierra; it's framed by trees.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 1d

Harsh (smoky) light, Panamint Valley from Hunter Mountain Road, California (a decade or two ago).

#photography #DeathValleyNationalPark #DVNP #Mojave #Desert #California

A view down into the Panamint Valley from the surrounding mountains. On the valley floor there's a dry lake bed and some dunes. The light is harsh and smoke-inflected from distant bushfires.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 4d

Black Butte from Slough Road, Siskyou County, California.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #TheRoadAhead #MtShasta #Volcanic #BlackAndWhite

A small dirt country road stretches away from the camera towards a distant snowcapped volcanic peak — Black Butte, Mt Shasta's little brother. The peak is actually many miles away, not just at the end of the road…

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! Thanks 😀

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 5d

The Road Ahead (smoky day, Saline Valley Road, Death Valley National Park, 2013).

#photography #Roadscape #LandscapePhotography #DeathValleyNationalPark #DVNP #Desert #California #TheRoadAhead

A desert dirt track curves off to the left in a rocky desert landscape of hills and mountains in a slightly smoky light.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, the memories… King Street, Newtown, once the centre of my life, yesterday. Much of King Street is always restlessly reinventing itself and almost unrecognisable from when I lived here.

#photography #Streetscape #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #StrollsWithAniPhone

A colourful and wide-angle view of a deteriorating wall and awning fronting Gould's Books and Video, once an active shop on King Street.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 9d

Erskineville, 6.45 am. It's weird (and good) being (very temporarily) back in a place where where both my accent and my name are nothing unusual…

#photography #Streetscape #Erskineville #Sydney #Australia #StrollsWithAniPhone

A pedestrian tunnel stretches away from camera under a railway bridge. A shaft of early morning light comes through it on the right. The bridge's faces is old weathered brick. Very Sydney.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 9d

A short stroll revisiting Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown (Australia) this afternoon. Decades ago I used to live across the road and this was a treasured part of my neighbourhood…

#photography #cemetery #gravestones #StrollsWithAniPhone #Newtown #Sydney #Australia

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 11d

Lone Star.

The old Lone Star concrete plant off Peralta, West Oakland (2024). For a short video I made celebrating this building, take a look at youtu.be/85tVcD-iPS4

#photography #Streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Oakland #California

A weather-beaten structure sitting on four large silos, made up of a trapezoidal corrugated tin clad superstructure with rectangular windows in it (some of which are missing the panes of glass), topped by a four-storey tower with the words "LONE STAR INDUSTRIES" across it.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 12d

Some subdued volcanic formations off Kelbaker Road, California. It can be difficult to capture the subtle colours and shapes here when you've got about a minute to take a photo, just passing by on your way elsewhere…

#photography #LandscapePhotography #volcanic #mojave #desert #california

Several cinder cones and other volcanic hills rise up out of an extensive lava field in the Mojave Desert between Baker and Kelso, California.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 13d

The Port of Oakland(ish). From a few years back, when the old Bay Bridge was still standing.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Oakland #California

A railroad (railway) yard covers the foreground and middle ground with parallel tracks and occasional bits of freight trains, almost monochromatically. In the background, some container cranes, the Bay Bridge(s), and Yerba Buena Island all in the haze.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 14d

Lon Chaney's hut, halfway up The Lakes trail out of Big Pine Canyon, in California's Eastern Sierra (a great place to stop for a while on one of my fave day hike trails). It's now owned by the NPS.

#photography #StrollsWithAniPhone #OwensValley #EasternSierra #Outdoors #California

A beautiful old stone hut with a corrugated tin roof is nestled in the trees trailside (and streamside!) about 8,000' up in California's Eastern Sierra.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 15d

This area's been fenced off in the last few years and you can't get close to either the tank or the Uniroyal Gal any more. There used to be a kids playground and picnic area at the back of this lot that was a great place to stop along US 395. Oh well…

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 15d

Pearsonville (California), Hub Cap Capital of The World (there has to be one somewhere, I guess). Plus the giant Uniroyal Woman there as well (she's about three times life-size).

#photography #RoadsideDistraction #Highway395 #Mojave #Desert #California #Americana #Roadscape #RoadsideAttraction

A highway-side tank is at the far end of a cleared lot; the tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it. To the right of the lot is an old 18' tall Uniroyal Woman (look it up!).

The Pearsonville Uniroyal Woman — an 18' tall fiberglass woman originally used to advertise Uniroyal Tires.

A roadside tank has the words "PEARSONVILLE Hub Cap Capital Of The World" on it.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 16d

A smoky morning from Slough Road (Mt Shasta and Shastina, California, 2022).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #volcanic #MtShasta #MountShasta #SiskiyouCounty #California

A pair of conjoined volcanic peaks (in the classic conical shape) rise up snowcapped 14,000' against a rather smoky early morning sky (there have been bushfires elsewhere in the state — the smoke's everywhere…). There's a low ridge in the foreground with some trees on it.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 17d

Way Out (Warren Street tube station, mid-1980's). Part of my Under London — London Underground in the 1980's photo essay: photography.hamishreid.com/Galleries/Un...

#photography #UrbanLandscape #London #LondonUnderground #1980s #BlackAndWhite

An underground pedestrian tunnel leads away from the camera deep in Warren Street tube station under London. The overhead lighting gives a striped effect to the light on the walls, which are either covered in ads or slowly crumbling away (ah, the Thatcherite mid 80's!).

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 18d

The Painted Dunes and Mt Lassen from halfway up The Cinder Cone (2023).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Volcanic #StrollsWithAniPhone #MtLassen #California

In the foreground, a series of orange- and yellow-coloured dunes, backed by a burnt-out pine forest (there have been a bunch of fires here lately); in the background, the volcanic peak of California's Mt Lassen.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 19d

Spiky desert plants (near the town of Mojave, California, 2017).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Structure #BlackAndWhite #Mojave #Desert #California

A stark row or two of wind turbines in the huge desert wind farm between Tehachapi and Mojave in California. There are some small Yuccas (Joshua trees) in front of the turbines; in fact, this part of the wind farm is in a small Yucca forest.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 20d

In the Joshua Tree forest (Death Valley National Park, 2013).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #TheRoadAhead #Desert #California #DeathValleyNationalPark #DVNP

A narrow dirt track leads away from the camera across a scrubby desert plain through scattered Joshua trees (Yucca Brevifolia) towards some low hills. The light is subdued and a little odd — there have been brush fires affecting the air for several days.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 21d

Jeremy's Trading Post, off I-15 (Barstow area) a dozen or more years ago. I can remember when this was a going concern, but that was some time even before I took these photos…

#photography #Roadscape #Mojave #Desert #California #ruins

A large orange oval-shaped sign saying "JEREMY'S" tops a tough but skeletal freeway-side metal sign structure in the desert next to Interstate 15. In the background, the Harvard Road onramp complex.

The shuttered old Jeremy's Trading Post building next to Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert. It's an irregular polygon, mostly dark red, with small scrappy signs on it and a few small repairs here and there. And the JEREMY'S sign from the previous photo is out the front to the right of the photo.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 22d

The Road Ahead (near Amboy, California, a decade or two ago).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #TheRoadAhead #Mojave #Desert #California #volcanic

A desert dirt track curves off to the left in front of a dark volcanic desert mountain range.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 23d

The Fair Deal Meat Co., Oakland, 2002. The company survived until about 2019 in the same spot, IIRC.

#photography #Streetscape #Oakland #California

Some sort of old black American car is parked on the street in front of a two storey building that contains the Fair Deal Meat Co. There's a rectangular red sign halfway up the facade, and the ground floor windows have lots (or should that be "lot's"?!) of hand-written signs advertising various meats.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 23d

I got the name from the USGS topos. It's such a striking landmark there near I-15 that when I first saw it decades ago I had to know more about it. Apparently there's a hiking trail to the top; maybe one day…

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 24d

Cave Mountain, California (a dozen or more years ago).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California

A small pyre of tires sits on the sandy, scrubby desert floor in front of a distant range of bare desert mountains.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 25d

Take a seat (under the Maze, Oakland, 2023).

#photography #Roadscape #StrollsWithAniPhone #Oakland #California

Five office chairs are arrayed on the edge of an industrial street passing under The Maze, a freeway interchange in the West Oakland / Emeryville area.

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