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Adrian Hillman

@hadrianwild

Living in a wildlife garden in Thailand - Making art from urban decay

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild May 14, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

A Bat Cave in Thailand to Visit

Nayang cave in Thailand is famous for it's colony of wrinkle-lipped bats but I wouldn't recommend it as a place to experience bats actually in the cave itself - the bats are out of sight high-up, the…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Jan 31, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

Flying Bat Blur GIF

#bats #flying #wildlife #nature #Thailand The cave is a short 31-kilometre cycle ride from home, although the return in the darkness does feel further... I cycled there 7 times in the last month and…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Jan 15, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC

Sign of Eyes

#abstract #photography #macro #weathered #urbandecay #rust #eyes I cycled right passed it at first, as most of the sign was just old and a bit tatty without the kind of character I was looking for, b…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Dec 28, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

Banana Leaf Love

#leaves #photography #bananaplants #nature #macro #abstract Like enormous floppy dog's ears our garden is full of banana leaves, droopy and flapping. They are like no other but like the rest of the p…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Oct 7, 2025, 1:13 PM UTC

Cormorant Collage

I take photographs of weathered urban surfaces. Things like rusty metal and flakey paintwork. It's all around our urban spaces but we tend to wear blinkers that prevent us seeing its beauty. One of t…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Sep 18, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

Endoscoping Tokay Geckos

There are just too many holes, cracks and crevices where wildlife can hide from me. Therefore, I got myself an endoscope, but not a medical kind - I might intrude into the lives of our local wildlife…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Aug 21, 2025, 8:48 AM UTC

Dwarf Honey Bees in Sun and Rain

#bees #nature #wildlife #Thailand #gardenwildlife #pob Our coconut palm is in flower and is humming with bees in the sunshine. It's not only the sun's rays that warm me. Most of them are dwarf honey…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Aug 11, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

Airborne Ground Squirrel

squirrel, wildlife, nature, archon, pob, creativecoin, waivio, ecency, neoxian We have two species of squirrel in our garden here in Thailand, the grey-bellied squirrel, which does everything it can…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Apr 4, 2025, 1:31 PM UTC

Collage Scrapheads from Roadside Trash

It's pleasing to turn other people's discarded crap into something creative but also depressing. It really should not be so easy to find this trash but the roadsides around where we live are smothere…

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Adrian Hillman
@hadrianwild Mar 30, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

Art from Urban Decay

Another collection of my recent artworks created using photographs of urban decay. Step one in the creation process is always to do the legwork to find the weathered urban surfaces to photograph. Eit…

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