Lithgow Valley Motel, Bowenfels

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 25s · ISO 250
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Lithgow Valley Motel at Bowenfels, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Off-white walls, blue trim, chairs and tables set out on the gravel in front of the doors. Dead leaves across the car park. Stars overhead. The motel carries 18 refurbished suites and family rooms.

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In situ

Lithgow Valley Motel, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Lithgow Valley Motel, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Lithgow Valley Motel, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Lithgow Valley Motel, Bowenfels
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-093
Process: Giclée
Captured: 10 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 25s s
ISO: 250
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 Lithgow Valley Motel sits in Bowenfels on the western edge of Lithgow, its walls off-white with blue trim. Chairs and tables are set out on the gravel in front of the doors, dead leaves lie across the car park, and the stars are out overhead. The property carries 18 refurbished suites and family rooms. The Lithgow Valley sits below to the east; the descent from the Blue Mountains escarpment is behind the camera.

The Lithgow Valley Motel was photographed at 01:38 on 10 April 2018, on the western 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, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Bowenfels sits on the western descent from the Blue Mountains into the Lithgow industrial-and-mining valley, the kind of country-town stop the Great Western corridor carried before the freeway took the through traffic.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The Lithgow Valley Motel at night under a starlit sky.

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

Print sizes

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