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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 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.

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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…

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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).

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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).

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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…

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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…

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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.
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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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

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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.
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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…

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Several cinder cones and other volcanic hills rise up out of an extensive lava field in the Mojave Desert between Baker and Kelso, California.
October 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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.
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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.

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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.
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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).

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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.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A smoky morning from Slough Road (Mt Shasta and Shastina, California, 2022).

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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.
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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...

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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!).
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM