MSA O/N August 2025 - "Hotels, Motels and Places To Stay"

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Hi all
My choice is hotels, motels, inns or the likes, a place for the transient. Inside or out, old or new.
We have about a dozen in the small town I'm in process of moving to. Good project for myself and those that wish to join in.

MODERATOR'S ADDITION: A theme that is well worth visiting.

Here is a copy of the rules for the MSA:

[UPDATED] Monthly Shooting Assignment Guidelines

Here are the guidelines that a number of participants in the MSA put together over a number of cycles. They have been recently revised
MSA Guidelines
For first-timers, the following summary of standard procedures should help (we are indebted to Ken Nadvornick for putting most of this together, and not objecting when this Member activity's moderator proposed to re-use [aka borrow] it):
(1) Take note of the MSA assignment, which you will find inserted into the title of the thread.
(2a) For the NEW Category, take your photo(s) according to the assignment guidelines. You are expected to shoot something new rather than grabbing from your archives. The exposure must happen during the period of the current MSA theme - usually one month - and must of course be submitted during that period.
2(b) For the OLD Category, you can use thematically appropriate Photos that you have taken in the past.
2(c) For either the NEW Category or the OLD Category, photos must originate as something that is consistent with Photrio's Analogue only section principles - i.e. using traditional (non-digital) processes. Scans from prints, slides, or negatives are permitted, but any digital adjustments should be strictly limited to what would be acceptable in the Photrio analogue only galleries. Please be sure to label which Category (OLD or NEW) your submission belongs in. Film and exposure information plus any special technical information is also good.
(3) You can post your photo in the MSA Gallery, or you can host your photo elsewhere and link to it in the thread, or, you can post it as an attachment to a message in the thread and it will show as a clickable thumbnail.
(4) It's all for fun, there are no prizes.
(5) at the end of the MSA, the previous winner who chose the theme:
(a) is encouraged to nominate from each of the "OLD" and "NEW" categories one photo that is the best photo in that category that illustrates the theme; and
(b) in any event, will choose (from those category "winners", if applicable) the single photo that is the best photo submitted as part of the current MSA that illustrates the theme.
The member submitting the "winning photo" will be declared the MSA "winner" and will have the opportunity and responsibility to choose a theme for the next MSA, and then choose a new winner from the submissions that follow.
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(6) How to upload to the MSA gallery: You perform the upload in the same way you would upload to the standard gallery, except you press the "'All subscriber galleries", you find a drop-down menu and press the Monthly Shooting Assignment, that's it.
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Rules added, thread title tweaked slightly, and the list of themes to date have been updated.
And as for an example of a temporary abode, from 2023:

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Rules added, thread title tweaked slightly, and the list of themes to date have been updated.
And as for an example of a temporary abode, from 2023:

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Thanks Matt Nice choice, not exactly the Ritz, but will do for the wary traveller.
 

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Old, 2025, Hotels in Niagara Falls, Canada (Kiev 4, Jupiter 11 135mm f/4, Fuji Sensia 100 expired 2004):

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Old, 2024, Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York (Canon T90, Canon FD 300mm f/4 L, Adox Scala 50 as negative in Rodinal 1+25 10 minutes 22C semi-stand):

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Old, 2023, Hotel on Antiparos Island, Cyclades, Greece (Canon EOS 650, Canon EF 100mm f/2, Kodak Ektar 100):


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Wouldn't trust anywhere that can't build a straight fence.

Don’t discount that fence construction method, it‘ very resistant to falling over, especially in soft ground. 🙂

Great topic btw, "Hotels, Motels and Places To Stay“, that is. I’ve recently moved to Flagstaff Az, which is on the famous Route 66, and still has some cool looking old motels. So there’s hope that I may even come up with some new,

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Don’t discount that fence construction method, it‘ very resistant to falling over, especially in soft ground. 🙂

Yep - that whole area is basically sand and shore grass.
In addition, there have been a lot of steps taken to protect the natural environment in that park. And long straight fences with deep foundations in areas with wind - and sometimes high tides - are quite disruptive to the natural environment.
 

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A few more old ones. The Fountainebleau Hotel painted on a wall that blocked the actual view of the hotel from Collins Ave Miami Beach. I'm not sure if it (the wall and painting) is stll there. The hotel is still there.. Curtains in a hotel room in Barcelona and similar curtains in a hotel room in Aix-en-Provence ...cropped because something shadowing through on top didn't work with the composition. All on Delta 400 120.

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Hotel Europe, Gas Town, Vancouver.
Photographed this a few years ago, on my grandfather's old Target Six-20. Acros developed in Pyrocat-HD.
Kallitype print made this morning, on Revere Platinum.

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Fun theme, nice choice!
 
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Don’t discount that fence construction method, it‘ very resistant to falling over, especially in soft ground. 🙂

Great topic btw, "Hotels, Motels and Places To Stay“, that is. I’ve recently moved to Flagstaff Az, which is on the famous Route 66, and still has some cool looking old motels. So there’s hope that I may even come up with some new,

Roger

Those crazy Canadians.
That would be great Roger if you could take a few local photos. Bet you wouldn't have a Peter Allen Motel or a Jumbuck Inn, though maybe a spooky 👻 Inn on top of the hill. 20250806_172246.jpg 20250806_170737.jpg
 

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