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Adrian Hillman
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Re-imagining urban decay.
Surrounded by the wonderful wildlife of a Thai garden.
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Koi Carp - created from a photograph of a paint pot lid found in the ashes of a bonfire
#fish #koicarp #animalart #natureart #photoillustration #urbandecay #weathered #texture #digitalcollage
Digital illustration looking down at a koi carp swimming under concentric-circle ripples. The fish is orange and the water blue and white with both having the texture of burnt paintwork from a photo of a paint pot lid found in an old bonfire. This texture incudes areas of circular paint flakes that in this artwork look like bubbles.
February 11, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Some bats from a cave near Cha’am in Thailand…🦇

Black-bearded tomb bats (Taphozous melanopogon)

Big-eared roundleaf bat (Hipposideros pomona) with a spooky bat shadow behind

Himalayan whiskered myotis (Myotis siligorensis) packing a crack

Roundleaf bats socially-distancing themselves
Photo taken with a flash looking up at 4 black-bearded tomb bats clinging to a cave wall in Thailand. Each bat is in the typical pose for this species with the claws on their two wings wide apart to brace against the wall and their pointed snouts pointing outwards to show the small black patch of fur under their chins. A single big-eared roundleaf bat hanging from one foot under an overhanging rock in a cave in Thailand. The flash combined with the rocks behind has left a shadow on the wall behind it that resembles a bat unfurling its wing but inverted so the head is at the top. A group of about a dozen tiny whiskered bats packed together into a crack in a cave in Thailand. Taken with a flash all the bats are facing the camera with one bat having its mouth open. A wide angle photo looking upwards at the bats in the interior of a cave in Thailand taken with a flash. About 50 distant roundleaf bats are hanging individually from the cave roof with several inches space between each of them. A few flying bats are also visible.
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Jackfruit Harvest - an exaggeration but it can take me up to 2 hours to get all the fruit out of one! Illustration created from urban decay photos.
#jackfruit #harvest #gardenproduce #illustration #Thaifruit #fruit #bigfruit #freshfruit
An illustration of a man carrying an enormous oval-shaped jackfruit on his back. On bended legs and bent forwards the man is weighed down by the fruit which looks heavier than he is. The fruit and man are filled with textures from urban decay photographs with the fruit being green with brown rusty splodges.
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Bat blur - the fly-out of wrinkle-lipped bats at Nayang in Thailand🦇🦇🦇
#bats #flying #wildlife #nature #Thailand
January 31, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Smoke and mirrors? An impressive solar cooking array using mirrors for grilling pork in Petchaburi, Thailand.
#solarcooking #grilling #solarpower #Thailand
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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A video sample every minute gave a fly-out estimate of these wrinkle-lipped bats at Nayang in Thailand yesterday of 225,080 bats, but “a bit more than 200,000” is perhaps a more honest view of the accuracy. I like the way the column keeps clipping that tree.
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Crocodile Eye - the same photograph as the last one I posted from a weathered roadside sign but with the addition of a crocodile!
#weathered #crocodile #urbandecay #abstractphotography #wildlifeart #foundart #rust #macrophotography #abstracteye #photoillustration #animalart #wateringhole
A photograph of an abstract close-up detail from a roadside sign found in Thailand that resembles an eye with the silhouette of a crocodile added to make it look both more like an eye and a drying watering hole. There's an oval of pure rust, which is lighter and more orange towards the centre and has a rough texture. It is surrounded by red paint which is finely cracked showing thin white lines that mainly lead to the rusty oval in the centre.
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Detail from an old roadside sign
#weathered #roadsign #urbandecay #abstractphotography #foundart #rust #macrophotography #abstracteye
A photograph of an abstract close-up detail from a roadside sign found in Thailand that resembles an eye. An oval of pure rust, which is lighter and more orange towards the centre and has a rough texture, is surrounded by red paint which is finely cracked showing thin white lines that mainly lead to the rusty oval in the centre.
January 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Gull's Head - digital collage created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#gull #seabird #seagull #birds #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a gull's head pointing to the left, created using a variety of textures from weathered urban surfaces. The gull is mainly flaky white paint with fine cracks and patches where the paint has fallen off to reveal dark rust underneath. The yellow and red of the beak and eye are from a different photograph of weathered paintwork. The blue, white and grey background is the messy paint on an old wall and includes the silhouettes of a few distant flying gulls.
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Seal in Kelp collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#seal #sealife #kelpforest #oceanworld #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a seal swimming amongst waving strands of kelp, created using a variety of textures from weathered urban surfaces. The seal is mottled grey and brown from the texture of an old wall. It is surrounded by the vertical kelp leaves which are a mixture of different flaking paint and rusty surfaces, mainly in green, orange and yellow. The background through the kelp is blue.
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Hyena collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#hyena #landscape #predator #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a hyena standing on a rocky outcrop facing to the right, created using a variety of textures from weathered urban surfaces. The hyena is black with a bright pattern of worn yellow and orange paint. The outcrop consists of three levels - the upper one is green and blue paint on rusty metal; the middle one is orange and yellow with rust, and the lowest is yellow and blue paint also with some rust showing. The background sky behind the hyena is weathered blue paint on a wall with some bits flaked off to show grey underneath.
January 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Dipper in Rain collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#dipper #rain #birds #wetweather #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a dipper standing on rocks beside a stream in the rain created using a variety of textures from weathered urban surfaces. The bird is orange-brown with a white bib and the background is a mixture of green, blue and brown mainly from photos of worn paintwork.
January 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Redshanks collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#redshank #shorebirds #birds #wadingbirds #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a three redshank wading birds standing, with two others flying behind in an abstract blue background. The closest bird has its beak open. The standing birds have red legs and beaks but their bodies are a variety of textures from weathered urban surfaces. The flying birds are dark blue with horizontal streaks, and there are a few tall grass stems in the foreground.
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Moose Woods collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces. That's one way to avoid having to do an eye!
#moose #elk #forest #woodland #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a moose walking between the trunks of woodland trees created from photographs of weathered urban textures. The moose is walking from right to left and is partly hidden by the trees which have a variety of textures such as rust and worn paintwork. There are a few leaves at the top and a blue background from an old wall. The moose has a brown texture from cracked and worn plaster.
January 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Fishing cormorant collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces
#cormorant #birds #birdart #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #fishing #photoillustration #collage
A digital collage of a cormorant on the surface of the sea or a lake with a fish in its beak, created from photographs of weathered urban textures. The water is from streaked and rusty blue paintwork; the bird from black oily residue on the side of a street vendor's cooking spot; the distant land was a green-and-grey grimy old wall, and the sky was a blue wall with the white remains of torn posters in cloud-like formations. There is also splashing drops of water and one distant cormorant swimming and two flying.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Crow roost - created from a photograph of a weathered old wall
#crows #birds #birdart #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #birdroost #photoillustration
An illustration of crows at their roost in a fir tree. Some perching birds are partially hidden by foliage while others are flying in, plus a pair of deer visible low down in the distance. The image is in grey-brown hues being created from a photograph of the weathered surface of an old wall.
January 2, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Koi carp couple created from a photo of a paint tin lid that had been put in a bonfire
#koicarp #wildlifeart #fish #photoillustration #urbandecay #weathered #nature #pondlife
Illustration of a pair of Koi carp from above as they swim in a circle. Their silhouettes are underneath a blue-grey, ash-like surface texture created from a photo of a burnt paint tin lid that had been put in a bonfire.
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Rusty flamingoes in a sparkling lagoon created from a worn old advertisement
#birds #wildlifeart #flamingo #photoillustration #urbandecay #weathered #nature #wetland
Illustration of a flock of reddish flamingoes standing in a blue lagoon with some birds flying in the background. Created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces, the birds have rust spots and the sparkling water comes from a macro detail of an old worn advertisement.
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I wonder if I was expected to jump through that...
#housegecko #gecko #reptile #backyardwildlife #houseguest
Photograph of a small house gecko in Thailand clinging to a wicker basket and holding a green rubber band in its mouth. It had been chewing the band as if testing its edibility but in the end left it alone. Photograph of a small house gecko in Thailand clinging to a wicker basket and holding a green rubber band in its mouth. It had been chewing the band as if testing its edibility but in the end left it alone.
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This could be different things to different people but I see a sabre-toothed wild boar.
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up abstract detail from a weathered old car. Some of the thick paint has flaked off revealing very rusty bodywork. The flakes still attached form a distinct shape that resembles the snout of a wild boar with a long jagged tooth.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Pleasing curves in the weathered paintwork on a "vintage" vehicle
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up abstract detail from a weathered old van. Some flakes of pale paint remain attached to the bodywork in a gently curving pattern but most has fallen off showing the underlying dirty brown surface. All is covered in subtle blemishes and scratches.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The red is a layer on top of the white that has finer cracking and stops the cracks in the white. But I don't understand the physics so I'll just enjoy its aesthetics.
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up abstract detail from a weathered old road sign. The white base color has a network of cracks that show underlying dark rust. There is an arc of faded red over the white paint which is also cracked but in a finer network showing the white underneath.
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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A rust-and-paint abstract from a very weather-beaten road sign.
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up abstract detail of the green paint used for lettering on a road sign whose white base color has largely been replaced by the orange and brown of rust. The rust is dissected by one thin dribble of the green paint.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Rabbit's ears - from the weathered paintwork of a roadside pickup truck. Not sure what happened to the rest of the rabbit. #macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up abstract detail of damaged paintwork on the side of a pickup truck with two distinctive shapes that look like rabbit's ears in pink and blue with orange tips lying horizontally. The surrounds are mainly very fine densely-packed specks of pink on an almost black background plus some flakes of blue paint along the top.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Extreme weathering on an old metal advertisement being used as a gate decoration!
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of the crazy network of cracks on the paint of an old metal advertisement where the remains of the pale paint has been stained rich orangey brown by the rust that has taken over leaving the cracks themselves a dark brown color.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM