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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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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
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Warren Street Tube Station (London), 1986. My last London Underground pic for a while… one that might convey the weird mix of grime and starkly-lit geometry and strange angles that was the daily Tube experience back then.

#photography #LondonUnderground #London #1980s #UrbanLandscape #BlackAndWhite
An underground walkway between platforms at London Underground's Warren Street station in 1986. Lots of geometry, some typical mould and peeling paint, no humans in sight at all (rare!), stark lighting.
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Whoosh… one more from Angel Islington, circa 1986. The narrow platform at Angel always kind of worried me when it was crowded…

#photography #LondonUnderground #London #1980s #BlackAndWhite #UrbanLandscape
A black and white photo of Angel Islington Underground station from the narrow platform looking along the platform. Ghostly traces of a train are visible on the right as it enters the station; two people are waiting to get on it in the middle distance.
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Another mid-1980's pic of Angel Islington Tube station (London Underground). From my photo essay Under London — London Underground in the 1980's (photography.hamishreid.com/Photo-Essays...).

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November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The old Angel Islington Tube station, mid-1980's London. I loved the weird combination of mould and grime, polished brass, odd geometry, and scurrying rats I'd see there every day…

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November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Big Merino, Goulburn (Australia, 2025). Another Australian Big Thing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_thi... ), this time on my way to Canberra…

#photography #TravelsWithAniPhone #RoadsideAttraction #Goulburn #Australia
A giant (15 metre tall) Merino sheep stands in a service area off the freeway on the outskirts of Goulburn in NSW. A giant (15 metre tall) Merino sheep stands in a service area off the freeway on the outskirts of Goulburn in NSW.
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The Big Prawn, Ballina, Australia (2025). One of Australia's many "Big" things (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_thi... ), I couldn't resist this one which has been around for ever (I grew up in coastal Australia a long time ago).

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A giant plastic prawn ("shrimp" to y'all USAians) stands (?!) next to the road near a Bunnings (isn't everything near a Bunnings in NSW?!) under a fiercely blue sky in suburban Ballina on the north coast of NSW (up near Byron). I was visiting friends up Lismore way…
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Lone Star (Oakland, 2024). This old but still-working concrete plant has featured in my streetscapes for literally decades now. See youtu.be/85tVcD-iPS4 for a video tribute I made last year.

#photography #streetscape #BlackAndWhite #Oakland #California
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Volcanic (near Coso, California, 2024).

#photography #EasternSierra #California #volcanic
Under a smoky afternoon light from distant bushfires, the southern end of California's Sierra Nevada rises up bare behind a red cinder cone, a reminder of how volcanic parts of California are. Under a smoky afternoon light from distant bushfires, the southern end of California's Sierra Nevada rises up bare behind a red cinder cone, a reminder of how volcanic parts of California are.
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Stoddard Wells Road, California (2009).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California #Roadscape
A reddish desert peak stands alone behind a scrubby desert plain. On that plain in a clearing in the foreground, some painted tires and a garbage bin.
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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SILENT (Willow Street, Oakland, 2023).

#photography #Streetscape #Oakland #California #BlackAndWhite
The other side of hipster Oakland — yet another homeless encampment. Drive on by, I guess…
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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BARBER COSMO (International Boulevard / East 14th, Oakland, maybe fifteen years ago).

#photography #Streetscape #oakland #california
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Newtown (Sydney, 2025). I've been taking some variant of this photo for decades; it hasn't changed much (or at all) in that time while so much around it's now almost unrecognisable…

#photography #UrbanLandscape #StrollsWithAniPhone #Newtown #Sydney #Australia #ruins
The highly-geometric red-and-brown brick facade of the ruins of the old tram sheds next to Newtown Station (Sydney). I used to live a few hundred metres from here.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Slough Road, California, a few years ago (Mt Shasta, of course).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Volcanic #California #SiskiyouCounty #MtShasta
A pair of snow-capped volcanic peaks (Shasta and Shastina) rise up behind a small range of hills.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Black Butte, looking a little fluffy one morning (California, 2022).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #SiskiyouCounty #MtShasta #Volcanic #California
A snow-capped volcanic plug is slightly shrouded in cloud in the middle distance; there's a two-lane blacktop heading its way in the foreground, along with some trees.
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Incoming (Slough Road, California, 2022).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #MtShasta #California #weather #TheRoadAhead #SiskiyouCounty
A country dirt road stretches away from the camera through arid, hilly country in the Mt Shasta area. There's a stormy sky above it.
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Sunrise, Barstow (California, 2013).

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California #sunrise
Several parallel ridges and ranges cross the desert floor stretching away for miles. The light's hazy; the sun's just risen, and the overall tone is a green-tinged brown.
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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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…
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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.
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM