Saleyard Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 500
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Room 3 at a regional New South Wales motel. A cream panel door, two aluminium chairs, a small table. Red brick, barred windows, a tree dropping leaf shadow across the forecourt. Late afternoon light flares through the upper balcony.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Saleyard Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-068
Process: Giclée
Captured: 7 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 3s s
ISO: 500
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 Saleyard Motel takes its name from the nearby cattle saleyards, the property historically pitched at the agents and graziers in town for the weekly auctions. The building is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is cream, painted in a brown trim along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a 1970s sans-serif on a backlit panel, with a small cattle silhouette beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the small hours; the saleyards a short distance away are also dark at this time. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Saleyard Motel was photographed at 02:18 on 7 April 2018, on the South Coast 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 and Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Country-town motels named for the local industry (Saleyard, Railway, Brewery) carried their trade pitch directly in the property name.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two-storey red brick facade. Unit number 3. A cream panel door with twin arched mouldings sits beside a large gridded window, grey curtains drawn behind the glass. Aluminium café table and two chairs rest on worn brick paving. Above, a balcony railing holds back a tangle of vine leaves catching low sun. Lens flare bleeds warm across the brickwork. A small coach lantern is mounted between the door and the upper storey.

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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