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Hamish Reid
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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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Grain elevator, Colusa County, California (2024).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #CentralValley #California #PrairieCathedral #Agriculture
A relatively-new grain elevator with five silos attached stands in the middle distance, partially reflected in a flooded field in the foreground. There's a low green levee bank in the immediate foreground; the sky is slightly stormy (it's been raining all day).
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Approaching storm, Lone Pine Peak (California, 2022).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #OwensValley #California #EasternSierra #SierraNevada
A somewhat muted view of a large sharply-edged mountain (Lone Pine Peak) in a mountain range (the Eastern Sierra), with an autumn storm approaching from the west (i.e. behind the range). In the foreground, the tops of the Alabama Hills.
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Another Richmond (California) before-dawn shot from my neighbourhood this morning…

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #StrollsWithAniPhone #Richmond #California
A pre-dawn urban streetscape: a large (ten-lane) freeway overcrossing with the word "RICHMOND" painted on it; going under the freeway is San Pablo Avenue, a busy four-lane local urban highway; in the foreground a pedestrian crossing across Roosevelt Avenue and a feeway onramp. There are two tall light poles in the foreground, each with traffic lights hung on them. The scene looks deserted, which is misleading — even at the 6am I took this there's usually a steady stream of cars and more than the occasional pedestrian (like me) on San Pablo (the freeway is, of course, busy all day and night).
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Walking to breakfast (before dawn). East Richmond this morning, just for a visual change.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #StrollsWithAniPhone #Richmond #California
A misty pre-dawn view of an inner-suburban streetscape in Richmond, California as I'm on my way to pick up my Usual of croissant and coffee at the local coffee shop. In the middle distance a freeway overcrossing; to the left, some palms and yuccas; down the middle, a deserted street. Absolutely nothing special, in other words — and that's the point, I guess.
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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West Side Story (the Central Valley, 2024).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #CentralValley #California #TheRoadAhead
A dirt track leads away from the camera across a set of dirt fields towards a low bare mountain range in the hazy distance. There are some large plastic bags full of plant waste next to the track in the middle distance. A very West Side scene…
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Trailer Trash (old Route 66 near Newberry Springs, California, 2015(ish)).

#photography #Roadscape #Route66 #Mojave #Desert #California #ruins
A long, ruined graffitied old trailer sits in the middle ground of a parched desert landscape; there are a bunch of discarded tires in the foreground.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Near Newberry Springs (old Route 66), California, mid-late 2000's.

#photography #Route66 #Roadscape #ruins #Mojave #Desert #California
A ruined old stone and stucco house with a single tree out the front and a shed to one side sits off the old Route 66 near Newberry Springs, California, in the Mojave Desert. The house is missing its door and windows.
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Boring Airport Photo number 163: Dulles International (just to keep yesterday's theme going…). I love this (Saarinen-architected) building, too, but it's none too convenient.

#photography #BoringAirportPhotography #TravelsWithAniPhone #Architecture #Virginia
A high-contrast near-monochrome photo of part of the departure area of Saarinen's Dulles airport building, suburban Virginia.
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I love an airport at night… (LAX, by way of explanation for missing a few days posting here).

#photography #Architecture #LosAngeles #California #Architecture #BoringAirportPhotography #TravelsWithAniPhone
LAX's iconic control tower caught from outside Terminal 6 at sunset. LAX's historic, iconic, and arguably Googie Theme Building caught at sunset from outside Terminal 6. Just one of those typical airport moments of reflection caught inside LAX's Terminal 6 waiting for a flight back to the Bay Area.
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Royal Edward Victualling Yard, Pyrmont (Sydney), 1988. Now the centrepiece of an extensively redeveloped and gentrified area (see comment below), when I knew it, it was a rough decaying docklands.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #PreGentrification #Sydney #Australia #BlackAndWhite
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Macaulay foundry, West Berkeley, late 1990's. It had an appealingly strange facade on Carleton that I tried to photograph over the years; I later had a strong personal connection to it when it housed artists and craft people, etc.

#photography #Streetscape #Berkeley #California #BlackAndWhite
A black and white photo of a rather rickety (or ad hoc) looking foundry facade facing onto a street in West Berkeley, circa 1998. It sort of looks like a film set, but it was a working foundry for at least another decade.
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Near Deep Springs, California, sometime in the 1990's.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #DeadCarsInTheDesert #GreatBasin #Desert #California #BlackAndWhite
An old, very wrecked, car lies on the side of a gully some distance from the road near Deep Springs, California in the 1990's. There's a low range of sparsely snow-capped desert mountains in the background. My tagline has often been "dead cars in the desert"…
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Wintry day, San Francisco Bay, from Nicholl Knob, Richmond, during one of my fave short urban hikes in the park there (2024).

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Richmond #California
A near-monochrome hazy winter's day view of Mt Tamalpais (left background), the Richmond Long Wharf, Red Rock (centre middleground) and the Richmond Bridge (right) from Nicholl Knob.
December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Looking towards Newberry Springs (on the old Route 66, California, a decade or so ago).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Roadscape #Route66 #TheRoadAhead #Mojave #Desert #California
A two-lane desert black top stretches away a little bumpily towards the hazy, hilly horizon. To the left, a series of power or telephone poles.
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Bridge — An experimental backdrop for an imaginary noise band (an extract). One of a series; yes, it's meant to be silent. Posted as an experiment (see video.hamishreid.com/easy-viewing/ for an explanation of the series). I don't expect many likes 😀.

#video #experimental
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Another view of the old Emeryville, 1990, on the cusp of gentrification. We're looking across what's now the Sonesta Hotel site towards Barbary Coast Steel (now an Ikea); the freeway's on the right.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Emeryville #California #PreGentrification #BlackAndWhite
A black and white photos of a misty winter's morning on a vacant lot of industrial land in urban Emeryville, California, pre-gentrification. In the foreground an old comfy chair and some discarded carpet and rugs; in the background a steelworks and sundry freeway billboards, warehouses, etc.
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The artist at work (West Berkeley / Emeryville, 1990). The old, long-lost pre-gentrification version of the area… (the railroad lines here are now a nice greenway, for instance).

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Berkeley #Emeryville #California #PreGentrification #BlackAndWhite
A typical late 1980's - early 1990's Emeryville / West Berkeley scene, pre-gentrification: the Hygenic [sic] Dog Food factory in the middle distance, what became the Greenway coursing down the middle (the railroad tracks…), several low-slung warehouses, etc., a dead car abandoned next to the tracks, and a painter seated to the right of the photo with an easel painting the scene. A long-lost E'ville and West Berkeley, in other words…
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Building the Atrium, Emeryville (California), 1990.

#photography #construction #emeryville #california #BlackAndWhite #Gentrification
A black and white shot of the internals of an old low-slung warehouse being renovated in 1990. There's a new internal wall being constructed out if wood frames in the foreground; there's a large shaft of light falling diagonally from a skylight in front of it. This building became known as Sybase's Atrium Building; it's now Atrium Labs, an attempt to make a small Biosciences campus.
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Domestica (Edith Street, Berkeley, mid-1990's).

#photography #domestica #BlackAndWhite #Lightplay
The underside of an old bathroom sink and toothbrush holder (etc.) as seen with a 4x5 view camera one day back in the 1990's when I lived in Berkeley.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Silver Lake (north of Baker), from near State Route 127, California (mid-1990's).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Desert #California #BlackAndWhite #ruins
A black and white photo of the remains of some old ruins in front of a a dry lake (Silver Lake) in the middle distance, with a small, sharp mountain range in the background. Oh and there's the ruins of a small old television set in the right foreground, as there always is somewhere in the Californian deserts.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The old White Bay Power Station, Rozelle (Sydney), 1988. I used to walk past this fave monster at least once a week on the way to band practice. Of course it's been gentrified now…

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Sydney #Australia #BlackAndWhite #PreGentrification #Streetscape
A black and white photo of a large old and very angular bit of a large old brick-and-steel power station in Sydney's inner city back in 1988. A prominent part of my extended neighbourhood back then(ish)…
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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My last Now and Then for a while… Brocks Lane, Newtown, Sydney, 1988, pre-gentrification. As always with gentrified Newtown, it’s quite different nowadays, but still recognisable.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #PreGentrification
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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One more Now and Then from Newton (Sydney) in 1988… 105 Wilson Street pre-gentrification, when it housed a struggling artist studio of some sort, IIRC.

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #PreGentrification
A black and white photo of a two-storey brick shopfront on a one way city street on a slight slope. The left half of the shopfront is painted white and contains a large ground floor display window with little figures in it; next to the white bit is an narrow old door with "105" painted on it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Now and Then… Alpha House in 1988, at the top end of King Street, Newtown (Sydney), just as developers got to it. It used to be a haven for artists, musicians, etc., but gentrification loomed…

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #PreGentrification
An old half-gutted eight-storey brick and steel residential building rears up over King Street, Newtown; it has the words ALPHA HOUSE written down the northern side.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Now and then… 131 Wilson Street, Newtown (Sydney), 1988. I used to live a bit further down Wilson Street (on top of a sandwich shop). See comment for current (gentrified) state…

#photography #UrbanLandscape #Streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #PreGentrification
A black and white image of a long narrow two-storey brick building (a workshop, originally) that has tall narrow windows along the sides. There are a lot of power cables strung above it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM