A weathered ghost sign with the words "CAFE" and "MOTEL" barely legible on it stands (barely) next to the old Route 66 in the Mojave Desert to the east of Newberry Springs, California. There are power line poles next to the road, and in the distance a small desert mountain range. There's a prominent condensation trail way above the scene.

CAFE MOTEL (Newberry Springs, 2016).

#photography #roadscape #Route66 #Mojave #Desert #California #TravelsWithAniPhone #TheRoadAhead

A high-contrast near-monochrome photo of part of the departure area of Saarinen's Dulles airport building, suburban Virginia.

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.

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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.

I love an airport at night… (LAX, by way of explanation for missing a few days posting here).

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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.

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 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…

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 sunburned picnic table sits on the desert floor next to the Mojave River in front of some small barren hills in the Afton Canyon area, California.

Afton Canyon, California (2013).

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A slightly shot-up and broken white hot water heater stands tall in the hilly Mojave desert near Basin Road, in the middle of nowhere. The heater's topped with (what I think is) a hairdresser's practice head, also shot-up. The light's very hot and flat.

Basin, California, 2015. No one believes me when I say we just stumbled upon this exactly as you see it here (in the middle of nowhere), but we did.

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A red brick wall is all that's visible through a hotel room window above a heater / AC unit; the interior lighting is dim.

Ennui, Toronto, the day before yesterday (the joys of traveling for work).

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Several ridges and ranges roll on across the field of view towards the distance in the White Mountains of California.

Just another day in California's White Mountains (with a nice hazy view of a cloud-capped Eastern Sierra in the distance across the Owens Valley).

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A view looking along and up the side wall of a very large wooden structure with exposed curved ribs and Modernist interior.

Inside that great wooden cathedral, the old Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista… (I'm helping deliver a class).

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A green sign stands next to a desert two-lane blacktop leading to a small mountain range in the background. The sign has a number of Death Valley National Park destinations either marked as "closed" or taped over or, in one case only, unambiguously "open".

Mixed messages… Death Valley / Waucoba Road, near Big Pine, California (2025).

#photography #roadscape #DeathValleyNationalPark #TheRoadAhead #TravelsWithAniPhone #OwensValley #California

An old truck sits hoisted up on a couple of tall poles next to Interstate 80 in Fernley, Nevada. On the truck's side, the words "Truck Inn".

Truck Inn, Fernley, Nevada (2024). Usually the last thing I see of Fernley on my way back to California…

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A toilet hut stands next to the dirt track next to Eureka Dunes in the middle of nowhere, California. In the background a range of nicely-stratified desert mountains.

The toilet in the middle of nowhere (Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, 2025).

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A retracted jet bridge is seen against the bright reflective tarmac of the apron at Nashville International Airport (BNA); two baggage loaders are parked on the tarmac beyond the jet bridge, and the tail of a Southwest 737 can be seen on the right. The reflections are due to heavy rain that has just stopped. The scene has an odd colour cast due to the terminal's window tint.

Boring Airport Photo number 914: Nashville International Airport (BNA).

Part of my Boring Airport Photos gallery: photography.hamishreid.com/Photo-Essays...

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A solitary bare-bones tree stands next to a desert dirt road that's seemingly aiming for a distant desert mountain range. There are some puffy cumulus clouds in the sky.

Waucoba Saline Road, California (2025).

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A classic desert two-lane blacktop stretches off to the (hilly, dark) horizon across a Great Basin desert plain. There's a 65 MPH speed limit sign to the right of the road.

Nevada State Highway 722 near Austin, Nevada (2024). One of my fave stretches of Nevada highway; I've taken so many snaps and more formal photos of this road over the decades.

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A thick film of white water cascades down the yellow, green, and black spillway at Shasta Dam, California, after a good year of rain.

The Overspill (Shasta Dam, looking down, 2023ish). That's roughly 180 metres — 600' — to the bottom. Yes, I was dead scared I'd drop my phone over the edge 😱.

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A worn-looking green, brown, and red pumpjack stands in dry golden-brown scrub next to Highway 33 in California's Central Valley. In the distance, bare hazy hills on the West Side. The light is diffuse under an indistinctly-cloudy autumn sky.

The West Side Highway (California State Route 33), 2024.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #oilfield #CentralValley #California #Highway33 #TravelsWithAniPhone

A pale semi derelict-looking low-slung building with three doors and boarded-up looking windows sits on an angled back street in Tonopah, Nevada.

In Tonopah, Nevada (2024).

#photography #streetscape #urban #nevada #GreatBasin #TravelsWithAniPhone

Rows of wooden crosses and grave markers (and the occasional stone one) disappear off through the dry rocky desert sand into the urban desert middle distance.

Rows of wooden crosses and grave markers (and the occasional stone one) disappear off through the dry rocky desert sand into the urban desert middle distance. Some of the graves have rickety-looking wooden enclosures.

Tonopah's historic cemetery (right next to the Clown Motel!). Hardscrabble's the word… (2024).

#photography #UrbanLandscape #nevada #GreatBasin #desert #TravelsWithAniPhone #AmericanGothic

A solid wooden fence stands up out of the desert dirt; on top of it, an Auto Parts sign, an old chopper-style motorcylce, and a white christian cross. A red hill peeks out in the left background; the sky is a pastel sunrise colour.

Sunrise, Barstow (California, 2020).

#photography #mojave #desert #california #sunrise #TravelsWithAniPhone #Americana #Route66 #Roadscape

A brown and white donkey stands (defiantly?) on a desert dirt road that stretches off towards the horizon in the lee of some sharply-contoured mountains in California's Death Valley National Park. The shadows are long; it's late afternoon in winter.

Desert Attitude (desert burro, Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, 2017(ish)).

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A stylised US flag — twenty stars, ten stripes, with the words "GOD BLESS AMERICA" and "[L]AND OF THE FREE" in slightly-broken writing on it — is attached to wire fencing next to a cattle grid across Nevada State Route 895. The surroundings are classic browny-green Great Basin scrubby desert, with some sun-dappled sharp low mountains off in the distance. The sky is full of little puffy cumulus clouds.

Nevada State Route 895 (May 2024).

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An empty sign frame sticks up from the leveled ruins of some sort of commercial property on the side of a desert road on the outskirts of Daggett, California on the old Route 66 in the Mojave Desert.

Approaching Daggett, California (Old Route 66, 2022).

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A gorgeous sunrise looms over the LA basin and the local buildings on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood as I start work one morning a long time ago.

Sunrise, Sunset (LA, 2013).

#photography #losangeles #california #sunrise #urbanlandscape #travelswithaniphone