Ettalong Beach Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight catches the peeling paint of the Ettalong Beach Motel, a relic of coastal holidays. Empty rooms and a weathered sign mark its slow decline into disuse, a quiet monument to forgotten leisure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Ettalong Beach Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-096
Process: Giclée
Captured: 11 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 13s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The Ettalong Beach Motel sits on a street in Ettalong on the Central Coast, the building two-storey brick with the room doors opening onto continuous balcony walkways at each floor. The brick is cream, the trim a coastal teal along the eaves and the balustrade. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel, with a small beach-and-wave graphic beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of decorative palms in planters carries the standard beachside landscaping. The Ettalong foreshore is a short walk from the property.

The Ettalong Beach Motel was photographed at 22:10 on 11 April 2018, on the second northern run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume, north on the Pacific to the Central Coast, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Ettalong sits at the southern tip of the Central Coast peninsula, opposite Patonga across Brisbane Water, with a beachside motel strip that served the Sydney-to-Newcastle holiday trade through the postwar decades.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A two-storey motel block sits under a dark sky, its white-painted brick washed pale by security lights. Room numbers run along the upper walkway. 5, 6, 7, 8. Metal security screens cover every door and window. A breezeway cuts between the two buildings, framing a patch of scrubland lit by a single floodlight. Red dirt beneath it. A palm tree leans against the left wing. The asphalt carpark is empty. No cars. No guests.

Brett Patman

The series

Hotel Motel 101

2015–2020 · 103 photographs

Hotel Motel 101 is a series of one hundred and one motels photographed in 2018 across three runs out of Sydney. North to the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains to the central western tablelands, south down the NSW South Coast. The count crept up from a planned seventy toward the round number, plus one for safety.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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