The Ocean Front Motel at Blue Bay, The Entrance, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Blue doors and white number tiles across two levels of white-painted brick, steel railings and ramps, a pink surfboard leaning by the restaurant sign and agaves in black pots.
The Ocean Front Motel at Blue Bay, The Entrance, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Blue doors and white number tiles across two levels of white-painted brick, steel railings and ramps, a pink surfboard leaning by the restaurant sign and agaves in black pots.

Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
52mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Ocean Front Motel at Blue Bay, two storeys of painted blockwork with blue steel doors.

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In situ

Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay at Hotel Motel 101, unframed print displayed in situ on a wall.Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay at Hotel Motel 101, white-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay at Hotel Motel 101, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay at Hotel Motel 101, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay at Hotel Motel 101, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Ocean Front Motel At Blue Bay
Series
Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue
HMO-047
Process
Giclée
Captured
5 April 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.4s s
ISO
100
Focal length
52 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 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

Two storeys of painted blockwork carry blue steel doors at the Ocean Front Motel at Blue Bay, rooms six through eighteen lining the open-air walkways behind steel railings. Each has a small frosted window and a wall-mounted air conditioning unit. Fluorescent tubes wash the white walls in flat cold light. A pink board leans against the railing on the lower level, and agaves stand in black pots between the doors. The car park below is empty.

The Ocean Front Motel at Blue Bay was photographed at 01:23 on 5 April 2018, on the north 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. Blue Bay sits between The Entrance and Toukley on the Central Coast strip, the kind of beachside Australian town the postwar motor inn was built to serve.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of painted blockwork and blue steel doors. Rooms numbered six through eighteen line the open-air walkways, each with a small frosted window and wall-mounted air conditioning unit. Fluorescent tubes wash the white walls in flat, cold light. A pink bodyboard leans against the railing on the lower level. Potted palms sit between the doors. No one is around. The car park below is empty.

Brett Patman

Hotel Motel 101

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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07 MORE FROM HOTEL MOTEL 101

102 other prints in this series

All prints
The Thirroul Beach Motel at Thirroul, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Two storeys of red brick with pastel doors on both levels, a reception sign at the end of the row, palms and cordylines along the frontage and stars over the empty car park.
Thirroul Beach Motel, Thirroul$100.00
The 3 Sisters Motel sign at Katoomba, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. A tall red neon MOTEL blade rises above the name in white and blue tubing, a RESTAURANT sign alongside it and a brick garden wall below.
3 Sisters Motel Sign$100.00
The Grandstand Motel at Warwick Farm, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Two storeys of red brick with a hose reel on the wall, green curtains drawn behind the ground-floor windows, weeds pushing through the paving and one fluorescent tube lit above.
Grandstand Motel, Warwick Farm$100.00
The Mt Kuring-Gai Motel sign photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Red neon outlines a painted panel with a cactus and an OFFICE arrow, a FOXTEL box above it and VACANCY below, with cacti growing in the bed at the base of the pole.
Mt Kuring-Gai Motel Sign$100.00
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