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rkdemay
@rkdemay.bsky.social
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A Mexican, American, ex-pat in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gathering complaints, photographs, moss, and all things Lefty.
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Well, damn. Paix à son âme. He was magnificent. #tchéky #karyo #rip
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Poppy Cat wondering, pointedly, if Halloween treats might be coming?

#blackcats #cats #catsofnz #Blackandwhite #photography
monochrome photograph of a black cat looking up at the photographer
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Pōneke in the morning. kinda really love our little village by the sea.

also: reason number. 11,302 why mobile phone screens are wholly inadequate for viewing photography.

#aotearoa #pōneke #tewhanganui #urban #seaside #photography
A photograph of the Wellington CBD in the morning light, with a stretch of the harbour in the foreground.
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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reckon we might nee to rename this fella. _Solace in Rust_? _Rust in The Wind_?

#urbanart #Pōneke #neglect #solaceinthewind #photography #sculpture #aotearoa #lx100
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Pō, altogether unimpressed with whether or not the peasants have laundry day, declares eminent domain over the hamper.

#catsofbsky #burmese #photography
Photograph of Pōneke, a young, lilac point Burmese cat with golden eyes, camping out in the hamper despite the declared desire of the humans to use it for laundry.
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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one of those, "if ya know, ya know" kind of things. and, tbh, she's vaguely terrifying in this shot. didn't notice through the viewfinder, but chilling in the photo. #iconic #nostalgia #kindacreepy #photography #lx100m1
A photograph in muted tones of an iconic Rolls Royce hood ornament, looking, for some reason, particularly spooky.
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Poppy Cat. rescued as a feral kitten. now a rescuer herself, on the daily, with her random acts of affection.

#cats #blackcats #catsofbsky #catsofaotearoa #blackandwhite #photography
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Persistance. Resilience. Renewal. #Spring #urbangreen #breathe #persist #photography #resistance
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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So dammed wholesome and good, cheerful and welcoming!

Reckon we should change the name to: Iced Canadien.

#coffee #uspolitics
Photograph of an Iced Americano which was so good it should be renamed Iced Canadian.
September 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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i thought about pushing it a little, so it would be fully in the tiny patch of sunlight. but, in the end i left it as i saw it, a fading spotlight on the last moments of a fallen blossom. spot colour livening up the bleak, built environment. if only briefly. #urban #photography
September 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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i feel like there's a metaphor in this shot. something about modernity and a screwed up ratio of built to natural environment, maybe? i dunno. sometimes something doesn't really work as a photograph, but it still captures a moment that makes me slow to delete it. #photography #urban #Aotearoa
A photograph of a distant hill, richly covered in green trees along with the city buildings, seen through a tunnel of concrete and metal, part of a parking ramp in the CBD. The hill is a tiny green square in the muted, matte colours of the building where the photographer is standing.
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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it's as if he's looking into my soul and judging what he sees.

it's more likely he's sick of me pointing cameras and lights at him.

Pōneke, Duke of Wellington, is not a famously patient photo model. which, i mean, fair. neither am i.

#catsofaotearoa #cats #burmese #photography #eyes
Portrait photograph of Pōneke, a young burmese cat with striking golden eyes, fixing the camera with an expression that suggests diminishing interest in being photographed.
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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i am cat furniture. there's worse occupations. #cats #catsofaotearoa #greeneyes #lapcats #photography
Photograph of a green-eyed, black cat, looking up from the lap of the photographer in mild protest over the back of the lilac-point Burmese who's hogging all the space.
September 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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There's something very in-the-moment about this. The nostalgia that kicks in reflexively when seeing a RR Silver Shadow. And the mild surprise at the somewhat shopworn contemporary reality. #photography #cars #RollsRoyce #urban #wellington
A photograph in muted tones of a 1970s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, fallen on harder times and reduced to using a pair of red bungie cords to keep the boot closed. Shot in Wellington, New Zealand.
September 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Brutalist Urban Geometry

#photography #urban #bnw #bleak #wellington #newzealand
A stark black and white photograph of a very blocky, industrial looking building framed betwee the shadowed silhouettes of two neighbouring buildings. A concrete walkway connects two of the buildings at second or third story level. The aesthetic is harsh and bleak, and a bit grungy. Shot in an alley in Wellington, New Zealand.
September 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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mood.

#photography #bnw #giantelm #urban #trees
A moody black and white photograph of a giant elm tree at the corner of an intersection in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Aotearoa New Zealand.
September 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Optimists: what's with all the nostalgia? where's the excitement for the path ahead??

The Path Ahead:

#photography #bnw #spooky #woods #aotearoa
a black and white photograph of some dead trees, reduced to trunks and spindly branches sticking out like porcupine quills, lining a dirt path disappearing into the darkness.
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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not saying Spring has fully sprung here in Te Whanganui-A-Tara. but it's glancing coyly at us from the shadows, full of promise. good times ahead! #flowers #photography #wellington #spring
September 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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looking northeast toward the Hutt Valley, from Oruaiti Reserve, on the coast in Seatoun-Wellington.

i don't think i could love this town more.

#lx100 #photography #landscape #m4/3 #aotearoa
a moody photograph, looking northeast toward the Hutt Valley, from Oruaiti Reserve, on the coast in Seatoun-Wellington.
September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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toe beans. perilous. murderous. but, toe beans. i booped them. i am still (mostly) alive. it is good.

#cats #catsofbsky #bnw #photography #catphotography #toebeans
black and white photograph of a black cat, folded into an odd pretzel, on the photographer's lap, fast asleep. all of her paws are, somehow, arranged around or on top of her muzzle. revealed, in all their glory, are her toe beans on a hind paw, and some truly frightening, razor sharp claws on one of her forepaws. booping of toe beans considered: high risk.
September 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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them wings, tho. not calling that bee a chonk, but, them wings, while gorgeous? do not look fit for purpose on that hefty bumble. #bees #flowers #gardens #photography
photograph of two seriously large bumble bees doing their pollen collecting on a red flower.
September 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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i mean. you know. albuquerque gonna albuquerque, right?
#newmexico #southwest #photography #brown
September 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The (in)famous Rio Grande river (and surrounds) in the north valley of Albuquerque, NM. We brought rain with us. Apparently the day before we could have walked across w/out getting our feet wet. One good soaking and the dormant life erupts back into colour. #travel #photography #USsouthwest
a photograph of the Rio Grande river, newly revived with overnight rainfall after having been dry to the bed. photograph of a log fence in the scrub of the bosque in Albuquerque's north valley. photograph of the riot of colour and growth along the bank of an irrigation ditch in Albuquerque's north valley, right off of the Rio Grande.
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Pōneke, Duke of Wellington, sleeping directly on his purebred face. As one does. Elegant as. #cats #catsofaotearoa #photography
photograph of a lilac point Burmese cat, out cold, sleeping face-first on a blanket, somehow still able to breathe.
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM