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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 · 9h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 12d

Truck Repair (near Weed, California, 2023(ish)).

#photography #Roadscape #MtShasta #California

A low-slung yellowish building with reddish-purple top and bottom has the words TRUCK REPAIR on its side. In the distance behind the building, a large volcano.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 13d

Wood Street, Oakland (2001). This is what it currently looks like, nearly twenty-five years later: maps.app.goo.gl/e7pGsaB5tFxS... — kinda different, no?

#photography #Streetscape #Oakland #California #PreGentrification

A large old wooden warehouse or factory stands on Wood Street in West Oakland; the facade is an irregular polygon, painted two different sorts of blue, and with boarded up windows and entrances. The windows are painted a deep sort of purple. I've been watching this building through its ups and downs for decades…

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 14d

The march of progress (somewhere near Afton Canyon, California, a decade or two ago).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #mojave #desert #california

A power line marches through the desert across desert plains and mountains.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 15d

Sheep Hole Pass (near Amboy, California, 2013).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California

The usual desert junk decorates a view of the desert plain stretching towards desert mountains in the hazy distance. There's a two-lane blacktop in the middle distance.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 16d

On the levee (Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #TheRoadAhead #SanFranciscoBay

A boarded-up red-and-white dredge lies in the shallows of the old salt lagoons next to the shoreline near Dumbarton Bridge in the San Francisco Bay. There's a rather toxic-looking pond in the foreground and a series of small levees in the middle and background. The sky is steely grey.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 17d

I felt it up here in Richmond — it certainly had my synapses in a knot 😀

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 17d

On the levee (Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge yesterday).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #TheRoadAhead #SanFranciscoBay

A mixed hiking and cycling track stretches away towards the (grey) horizon on top of a levee covered in bright shrubs of some sort.

A mixed hiking and cycling track stretches away towards the (grey) horizon on top of a levee covered in bright shrubs of some sort and a bunch of broken pipework.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 18d

Highway 395 (near Pearsonville, California).

#photography #Roadscape #Mojave #Desert #California #Highway395

An empty billboard stands next to the highway in the desert; in the distance a desert mountain range.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 19d

Dancing, Cocktails (Main Street Barstow, California, 2013).

#photography #Streetscape #Route66 #Mojave #Desert #California

A sun-bleached main street in the desert. The central facade has an old sign with "Dancing" and "Cocktails" on it. The leftmost building is for sale.

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Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 20d

Chinatown (San Francisco, 2018).

#photography #Streetscape #SanFrancisco #California #StrollsWithAniPhone

An old masonry facade stands up from Quincy Street in San Francisco's Chinatown. The bottom bit is red; the top off-white. There are windows cut deep into the facade and a small white door at street level.

Hamish Reid @hamishreidphoto.bsky.social · 20d

And here's the Google Street View version from earlier this year: maps.app.goo.gl/QeYdqqviBBGu..., a bit washed out due to the blinding winter sun…