Atomic Hotel

[Darren Bradley]

Came upon this great motel while cruising around Long Beach. It's like a time machine - right out of the early 60s.



I shot this with my 5D2 and my 17mm lens on ISO 200. Lens diffraction be damned, I shot at f13. I tweaked the image in LR to up the saturation and change the colors a bit to give it a bit of a 1960s Technicolor look to match the style of architecture.

 

[Pete Askew]

What a great period piece. Do they have Radon showers and somewhere to re-fuel the jetcar!!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Very nice - Can't you can just hear the theme to the Jetsons

Isn't there an atomic hotel in Palm Springs - or am I thinking Orbit Hotel?

 

[Pete Askew]

You've been hanging around too many flying saucers if you ask me Chris!!

 

[Darren Bradley]

That's the Orbit In, yeah. There is an Atomic Inn, but it's in Beatty, NV