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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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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
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Another detail from the weathered old farm truck's bumper I posted yesterday
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of the multiple peeling layers of different colored paint on the metal bumper of an old farm truck in Thailand. The lower third is mainly a stripe of yellow paint that has flaked to leave the interesting shape of 3 vertical extensions protruding into the mainly red and brown flaky paintwork above. There are also some flecks of gray paint.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Detail from a weathered old farm truck's bumper. Just how many layers of paint do you need!?! I count six.
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of the multiple peeling layers of different colored paint on the metal bumper of an old farm truck in Thailand. There is yellow, red, brown, blue, green and whitish paint showing with a few spots of rust in an abstract pattern.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Reptilian detail from a farm truck
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of the peeling cracked paintwork on the wooden boards of an old farm truck in Thailand. The round head of a large rusty bolt has stained the surrounding paint orange and together with the paint texture resembles a reptile's eye.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Spiderlings - detail from the back of a weathered road sign
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #accidentalart #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of cracked paintwork on the back of a road sign in Thailand. The cracks show the dark rust underneath and the white paint has been stained orange along the edges of the cracks. Two small star-like crack patterns resemble spiderlings in a corner of a large web.
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Sign of a smile - detail from a weathered road sign
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #abstract #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of cracked blue paintwork on the front of a road sign in Thailand. The cracks are silvery with a hint of dark rusting and two rivets combine with a curved crack to resemble a face.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Street map road sign - detail from the weathered back of a street sign
#macrophotography #weathering #urbandecay #abstractart #abstract #abstractphotography
Close-up detail of cracked paint on the back of a road sign in Thailand that looks like a street map with cracks of dark rust between patches of white paint that has been stained orange and yellow around the edges.
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM