Adrian Hillman

Thank you and keep up the good work!!!

Many thanks! It's always good to get feedback like that!

Illustration of a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk close to a hole in the tree. The abstract tree is a photograph from a rusty sheet of metal with the rusty staining forming the tree, and the black-and-white woodpecker with small red patches on its head and under its tail is made from three other macro photographs of urban decay.

Woodpecker and Hole - created from macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces
#woodpecker #bird #birdart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #illustration #weatheredsurface #urbandecay

Illustration of two sea lions swimming together in ocean surf from above. The sea lions are dark silhouettes blended into a photograph of the intricate cracks on the paintwork of a very old car. The cracks are white and give an impression of fine bubbles floating on the water surface over a blue background. The sea lions are behind the bubbles so they appear to be below the water's surface.

Surf Sea Lions - created using a macro photograph of the weathered bodywork of an old, old car
#sealions #oceanlife #wildlifeart #natureart #illustration #animalart #weathered #urbandecay #photoillustration #sealife

A digital collage illustration of a small kingfisher with a fish in its beak perched on a white skeletal abstract tree. The white tree with blue background is a macro photograph of cracks on a weathered road sign. The bird is made from a photo of the brightly coloured flaking layers of paintwork from an old vehicle with yellow, red, green and brown patches.

Kingfisher - the background is a photo of an old road-sign, the bird is part of a photo of an even older vehicle
#bird #kingfisher #birdart #animalart #natureart #photoillustration #urbandecay #weathered #urbantexture

A digital illustration of a flock of wading birds flying from right to left within a macro photograph of thick whitish paint peeling off the bodywork of an old lorry revealing the dark greenish-blue of the underlayer. The dark brown birds are only visible in the remaining bits of white paint giving the flock a fragmented look.

Fragmented Flock - created from a photo of thick paintwork flaking away from a very old vehicle
#birds #shorebirds #flyingflock #birdart #animalart #natureart #photoillustration #urbandecay #weathered #urbantexture

Fantastic, thanks!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Bat blur - the fly-out of wrinkle-lipped bats at Nayang in Thailand🦇🦇🦇
#bats #flying #wildlife #nature #Thailand

Smoke and mirrors? An impressive solar cooking array using mirrors for grilling pork in Petchaburi, Thailand.
#solarcooking #grilling #solarpower #Thailand

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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.

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.

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. 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.

Detail from an old roadside sign
#weathered #roadsign #urbandecay #abstractphotography #foundart #rust #macrophotography #abstracteye

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.

Gull's Head - digital collage created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#gull #seabird #seagull #birds #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #animalart #photoillustration #collage

Thank you! Yes, it's one of my favs as well.

Thank you! They are great and such fun to hunt!

And my brain is very happy to hear about it, thank you!

Many thanks! That's the last of these collages for now...

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.

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 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.

Hyena collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces.
#hyena #landscape #predator #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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

Fishing cormorant collage - created from photographs of weathered urban surfaces
#cormorant #birds #birdart #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #fishing #photoillustration #collage

Thank you so much! Only a very slight hangover yesterday so a good start to 2026!

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.

Crow roost - created from a photograph of a weathered old wall
#crows #birds #birdart #wildlifeart #urbandecay #weathered #natureart #birdroost #photoillustration

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.

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