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Fitzroy's lanes never cease to deliver, when I flaneur through them.
This is the cover image from my self published book, "What's the ugliest part of your body". You can purchase it via the MPC website or from the NGV Art Book Fair.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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Reality can be perceived as positive because it is positive. We are not talking about “baptizing” reality starting from a religious preconception, a “pious” vision, but about recognizing it in its ultimate nature. Reality is ontologically positive. Why? Reality is positive because it exists. Everything that exists is there because the Mystery permitted it to happen (everything, in fact, has an origin in a mysterious Something; nothing makes itself); it provokes and sets the person in motion, it represents an invitation to change, an occasion to take a step toward one’s own destiny. Every circumstance is the path and the instrument of our journey—it is a sign. Insomuch as it is there, reality is a provocation, and therefore the occasion for the reawakening of the “I” from its inertia.
--Disarming Beauty ESSAYS ON FAITH, TRUTH, AND FREEDOM, JULIÁN CARRÓN Foreword by Javier Prades
The Robin is a year round resident in the UK, but a small minority of female Robins migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Both the male and female feature similar plumage, both with the distinctive red breast. The male bird is extremely territorial and will aggressively defend his territory, attacking any similar sized birds that try to muscle in on their patch.
The adult European robin is 12cm long and weighs between 15 to 22 g with a wingspan of 20–22 cm . The male and female bear similar plumage; an orange breast and face lined by a bluish grey on the sides of the neck and chest. The upperparts are brownish, or olive-tinged in British birds, and the belly whitish, while the legs and feet are brown. The bill and eyes are black. Juveniles are a spotted brown and white in colouration, with patches of orange gradually appearing. Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. There are instances of robins attacking their own reflection. Territorial disputes sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas
What a sweet song this bird has. Always looks so cute and mild mannered
But Did you know that Male Robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behavior. They will attack other males that stray into their territories, and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. Such attacks sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult Robin deaths in some areas.[
Finished in 1812 this was the third city hall that the city had. The first was built by the Dutch when the city was still known as New Amsterdam and that was demolished in 1690. The second was built by the British in 1700 and was renamed and repurposed as Federal Hall. The city offered a prize of $350 to the architect(s) for to submit the wining design plans won by Joseph-François Mangin and John McComb Jr. In 1954 the city replaced much of the exterior stonework with better quality materials and in 2008 the building got a major restoration that cost 150 million. The building was subjected a violent riot in 1857 when the between the recently dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly formed Metropolitan Police on June 16, 1857. Municipal police fought with Metropolitan officers who were attempting to arrest New York City Mayor Fernando Wood. In 1970 during the Vietnam War it was the scene of the infamous "Hard hat riot." when hundreds on construction workers violently and without provocation attacked a group of antiwar protestors. In 2003 a city council member James E Davis was murdered by a political rival and was shot dead by police at the scene. The building is now a national historical landmark and a New York City historical landmark. Ever since the destruction of the World Trade Center access to building has been quite restricted and I took this picture through a gap in fencing surrounding the area. I did strike up a conversation with two police officers neither who could have been a day over 30 how back in 1969 me and brother stood on the steps not more than forty feet away watched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins got the key from the city from Mayor John Lindsay as they were honored for the Apollo 11 moon landing and being regarded as a witness to history.
Today, EU Special Forces failed to disarm what was believed to be a dirty bomb in the center of London. Detonated near Buckingham palace, authorities are scrambing to contain the situation. Current projections released by the Ministry of Defense state that they are expecting nearly 2,000,000 casualties. Minister Fallon has been quoted as saying that "Those responsible will be brought to justice." Meanwhile EU forces around the globe have been ordered to full alert and to expect an attack without the slightest provocation. This is Jamie Austin with BBCOne signing off.
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I slip into Soff the way candlelight slips across bare skin — slow, intentional, impossible to ignore. 💋
This is not simply lingerie… this is choreography. A performance of curves, confidence, and quiet provocation.
The Soff top drapes my silhouette with a delicate tension between softness and structure. Its knotted front gathers the fabric inward, sculpting my waist while drawing the eye exactly where I want it — downward, lingering, curious. The ribbed texture hugs close like a whispered secret, tracing every contour with couture precision. The panties answer in perfect harmony, sitting low on my hips, framed with lace that brushes my thighs like vintage boudoir gloves. Together, they create a silhouette that doesn’t shout — it beckons. 🔥
When I choose Soff, I dress with intention. I dress to seduce my man with posture, with movement, with the quiet power of suggestion. And then… I dress for him slowly. 💫
Layer by layer, I let the fabric find my skin with deliberate grace, turning every motion into anticipation. I allow his eyes to follow the ritual — the settling of lace, the gentle pull of the knot, the final smoothing of silk — knowing that seduction does not begin when clothing falls away… it begins when it is chosen with purpose.
✨ Behind the mirror lives my secret weapon — the HUD.
With a single touch, I shift the mood:
💎 PBR Mode bathes the fabric in living light, creating soft shadow depth and natural sheen that responds beautifully to candle glow and sunset tones. The ribbed knit gains dimensional realism, appearing irresistibly touchable.
✨ Blinn Mode delivers classic glamour — smooth highlights and rich saturation, perfect for studio lighting and sultry interiors.
Material controls allow me to glide between matte lounge softness and silk-kissed shimmer — depending on how bold the evening feels.
🎨 My color wardrobe unfolds like temptation itself:
rose red for desire ❤️
wine burgundy for drama 🍷
blush pink for softness 🌸
classic black for power
ivory cream for innocence undone
nude beige, smoky mocha, deep charcoal — each shade designed to flatter skin tones and glow beneath cinematic light.
Soff embraces my body flawlessly, tailored for modern icons of beauty:
✨ Reborn
✨ Reborn Squish
✨ Petite
✨ LaraX
✨ Legacy
✨ Perky
✨ Bombshell
✨ Waifu
✨ Nhuma
This silhouette carries the legacy of women who understood seduction as art - Rita Hayworth’s satin confidence, Sophia Loren’s unapologetic curves, Marilyn Monroe’s soft rebellion against modesty. They didn’t expose - they suggested. They didn’t chase attention — they commanded it.
Tonight, I follow their lead.
I dress slowly.
I move deliberately.
And I let Soff do the rest. 💗
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Because as fashion once whispered behind velvet curtains:
“Style is seduction made visible.” ✨
Even after residing in Sunshine for 15 years we get the odd surprise. This vehicle crashed into a bridge over Korroroit Creek, that had no paved or bitumen road leading to it.
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Red Vespa & Subversive Windows — Rue Haute, Brussels
🇬🇧 Brussels, Rue Haute, sun-drenched sidewalk.
A red Vespa streaks the curb like a brushstroke, backed by a storefront that dares and disrupts.
“The Sexual Life of Tintin”, frozen faces, twisted icons… Here, the city reveals its layered meanings — part street art, part pop satire, all framed by spontaneous street theatre.
Everyday life turns into a gallery, and every passerby becomes part of the show.
🇫🇷 Bruxelles, Rue Haute, en plein soleil.
Une Vespa rouge comme un trait de peinture sur le trottoir, et derrière elle, une vitrine qui provoque, interroge, détourne.
“La vie sexuelle de Tintin”, des visages figés, des icônes recontextualisées… Ici, la ville expose ses couches de sens, entre art de rue, satire pop et passants curieux.
Le quotidien se fait galerie — et chacun devient spectateur d’une mise en scène urbaine involontaire.
The Robin is a year round resident in the UK, but a small minority of female Robins migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Both the male and female feature similar plumage, both with the distinctive red breast. The male bird is extremely territorial and will aggressively defend his territory, attacking any similar sized birds that try to muscle in on their patch.
The adult European robin is 12cm long and weighs between 15 to 22 g with a wingspan of 20–22 cm . The male and female bear similar plumage; an orange breast and face lined by a bluish grey on the sides of the neck and chest. The upperparts are brownish, or olive-tinged in British birds, and the belly whitish, while the legs and feet are brown. The bill and eyes are black. Juveniles are a spotted brown and white in colouration, with patches of orange gradually appearing. Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. There are instances of robins attacking their own reflection. Territorial disputes sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas
Victim blaming is any response that explicitly states or implies that the victim is to blame for the abuse they have experienced: victim blaming often revolves around actions that a victim could have taken, or not taken, to avoid experiencing abuse. My observations made it clear that victim blaming also makes part of the blackmail system, using chemical products. Psychology is also an important tool in the submission apparatus:
Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist."
They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.
The most toxic and hateful people in the world are 100% convinced they fight for what is true and right.
For colleagues looking for more theoretical explanation, the psychological processes are splitting, projection & projective identification. Splitting means not recognizing one's own capacity for hate, cruelty, and destructiveness. The person is blind to the bad in themselves.
Instead, they project the badness onto some designated other. And this other person, via the defense of projection, is now seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil and necessary to destroy. That's the projection.
The person now feels fully justified in unleashing
their viciousness and hate on the other person, who is now seen (via projection) as someone monstrous who must be destroyed. If the person who is projected on responds to the provocation with anger, this is now seen as further confirmation of how hateful and destructive they are (this is what is called is "projective identification.") The end result is that the person can deny their own sadism, cruelty, and hate—while simultaneously acting it out without restraint. And feel themselves to be 100% on the side of truth and right as they do it.(Prof Jonathan Shedler)
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forbidden fruits, all things that glitter, and a pretty girl are mans downfall.
fools gold and a T girls are just as bad!
Feminine charms are such a hoot to master a little provocation, a hint of seduction the sweet girl next door turned into a sexy miss..would you as Adam resist such temptation?
Just have to make do with old bird ;-)
The Robin is a year round resident in the UK, but a small minority of female Robins migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Both the male and female feature similar plumage, both with the distinctive red breast. The male bird is extremely territorial and will aggressively defend his territory, attacking any similar sized birds that try to muscle in on their patch.
The adult European robin is 12cm long and weighs between 15 to 22 g with a wingspan of 20–22 cm . The male and female bear similar plumage; an orange breast and face lined by a bluish grey on the sides of the neck and chest. The upperparts are brownish, or olive-tinged in British birds, and the belly whitish, while the legs and feet are brown. The bill and eyes are black. Juveniles are a spotted brown and white in colouration, with patches of orange gradually appearing. Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. There are instances of robins attacking their own reflection. Territorial disputes sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas
THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT.
I created this image to represent a simple and unavoidable idea: sooner or later, truth rises to the surface.
Even when someone tries to bury it, darken it, distort it, or keep it hidden, truth always finds a way through.
In this scene, the dark glass becomes a metaphor for a mind filled with omissions, silence and lies — yet something inside still moves, emerges, ignites, and breaks the surface. It is that precise moment when what was hidden becomes visible, and pretending is no longer possible.
I am creating a series of images inspired by proverbs because proverbs are the moral memory of humanity: in just a few words they contain experience, wounds, justice, irony, and survival.
I chose to create them digitally with Artificial Intelligence not because this technology can replace photography or “pure” art, but because I want to use a new tool without becoming its servant.
I want to bend the instrument to my own language — turning it into poetic provocation and visual protest.
Before the virtual becomes a weapon against human beings, I use it to remind human beings who they are.
And above all, to remind that truth — even when buried — always comes out.
The Robin is a year round resident in the UK, but a small minority of female Robins migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Both the male and female feature similar plumage, both with the distinctive red breast. The male bird is extremely territorial and will aggressively defend his territory, attacking any similar sized birds that try to muscle in on their patch.
The adult European robin is 12cm long and weighs between 15 to 22 g with a wingspan of 20–22 cm . The male and female bear similar plumage; an orange breast and face lined by a bluish grey on the sides of the neck and chest. The upperparts are brownish, or olive-tinged in British birds, and the belly whitish, while the legs and feet are brown. The bill and eyes are black. Juveniles are a spotted brown and white in colouration, with patches of orange gradually appearing. Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. There are instances of robins attacking their own reflection. Territorial disputes sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas
Grange Place, in 13/10/2022 11:15. Despite the known and valued nature of Melbourne's early lanes, newer modern architecture creeps in.
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A different view of the scene.
I have a series of locations I revisit on and off. This is one of them.
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One of my many ongoing approaches is to move through the world as a harvester of images. I stumble, stroll, and lurch, equal parts accident and intent. Each frame is a fragment, a glitch, or a whisper from the margins. My decades-deep, archive serves as both a compass and a crucible: a living constellation of negatives and proof sheets that drive and generate further inquiry. It’s where entropy meets annotation, where decay and growth are catalogued not as opposites but as co-conspirators.
I circle questions that resist resolution: time as texture, presence as performance, and possibility as rupture. I search for quiet collisions, between gesture and ruin, between what’s seen and what’s overlooked, where meaning might flicker into being. I attempt to create each image not as a document and but more a provocation, an invitation to reframe perception and interrogate the ideological choreography of attention.
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a mannequin, a halo, a hand that refuses compliance. this image walks the line between irony and iconography — a sculptural gesture of defiance, captured in stark black and white. holy or heretic? you decide.
no nuke 落實民主 停建核四
Protestors are now sitting down for the night in the latest standoff at the Legislative Yuan. The latest reports from NTU News E Forum show that the police have newly erected large numbers of barricades at the intersection of Zhenjiang St. and Qingdao E. Rd., with police officers moving inside the barricades. Since these new barricades are being dug into the ground (which in itself is of dubious legality), this has ignited the anger of a number of protestors. Lee Ming-tsung (李明璁), an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University, arrived on the scene earlier to calm down heightened emotions: "If we respond to police provocation and charge in," he said, "we will do more harm than good to the anti-nuclear movement."
In the boat basin where we keep the pontoon boat we often see turtles basking just below the surface.
This is a map turtle just chillin' in the afternoon sun.
No ipod, I guess they aren't water proof.
Graptemys geographica
Seen up close, the fine light lines on the carapace of the Northern Map Turtle (Graptemys geographica) look like contour lines on a topographic map. But more likely, your view of this species will be brief and distant, since it is extremely wary and will dive at the slightest provocation.
Females are much larger than males and have powerful jaws that they use to crush molluscs with. The smaller males eat mostly aquatic insect larvae.
Female northern map turtles may take more than 10 years to reach maturity.
sources - Ontario Nature, Royal Ontario Museum
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
It was easy to wander around these facilities in the late 1990s. Not any more!
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July 2025. The Israeli Stock Market reached an all-time high of 3,156.35.
We are taking Palestine.
This image is not about provocation, but about truth.
In July 2025, the Israeli Stock Market reached an all-time high of 3,156.35 points, while the war against Palestine kept causing death and devastation.
This is not an invented figure: it comes from financial sources and economic news reports.
Israel profits, Palestine dies.
Artificial Intelligence
A weather worn brick wall patched across decades, each layer telling a different story of repair and neglect. Two metal pipes run down the surface like makeshift punctuation, and a faded pink door sits to the side, its spray painted numbers drifting toward abstraction. The bricks shift from red to brown to almost black near the base, a sediment of past fixes and forgotten intentions. It’s a small fragment of a building, but it carries the feeling of something older than it looks; a place where time leaves marks more faithfully than people do.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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🇬🇧 This third image completes a small visual story. Michela points directly at one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s most provocative photographs, her expression balancing between amusement, disbelief and curiosity. It is almost as if she is asking: “Was this really enough to shock people?”
The answer, of course, is yes. When Mapplethorpe created works like this in the 1980s, they challenged social conventions and pushed against boundaries that many considered untouchable. The discussions were often as intense as the photographs themselves.
Today the scene feels very different. The gesture of pointing, which once might have been accompanied by embarrassment or controversy, can now be accompanied by a smile and a light-hearted comment. Society has changed, cultural taboos have shifted, and what was once perceived primarily as provocation can now be appreciated with greater distance and perspective.
That evolution does not diminish the photograph’s artistic strength. On the contrary, it highlights it. Great art often acts as a mirror held up to its own era. Decades later, the image remains the same, but the viewers have changed. The photograph tells one story; our reaction to it tells another.
As I pressed the shutter, I realized that I was not only photographing Michela and a Mapplethorpe print. I was photographing forty years of changing attitudes condensed into a single gesture and a single glance.
📍 Ara Pacis Museum, Rome
📷 Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibition
🇮🇹 Questa terza immagine completa una piccola storia visiva. Michela indica direttamente una delle fotografie più provocatorie di Robert Mapplethorpe, con un’espressione sospesa tra divertimento, incredulità e curiosità. È quasi come se stesse chiedendo: «Davvero bastava questo per scandalizzare?»
La risposta, naturalmente, è sì. Quando Mapplethorpe realizzò opere come questa negli anni Ottanta, sfidava convenzioni sociali e culturali che molti ritenevano intoccabili. Le discussioni che ne derivavano erano spesso intense quanto le fotografie stesse.
Oggi la scena appare molto diversa. Quel gesto di indicare l’opera, che allora avrebbe potuto essere accompagnato da imbarazzo o polemiche, oggi può essere accompagnato da un sorriso e da una battuta. La società è cambiata, i tabù si sono trasformati e ciò che un tempo era percepito soprattutto come provocazione può essere osservato con maggiore serenità e perfino con ironia.
Questo però non toglie nulla alla forza artistica della fotografia. Anzi, la esalta. La grande arte ha spesso la capacità di diventare uno specchio del proprio tempo. A distanza di decenni l’immagine è rimasta identica, ma sono cambiati gli occhi che la osservano. La fotografia racconta una storia; la nostra reazione ne racconta un’altra.
Nel momento in cui ho scattato questa foto mi sono reso conto che non stavo fotografando soltanto Michela davanti a un’opera di Mapplethorpe. Stavo fotografando quarant’anni di cambiamenti nei costumi, nelle sensibilità e nel modo stesso di guardare l’arte.
📍 Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Roma
📷 Mostra di Robert Mapplethorpe, Le forme della bellezza
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This part of the west, once a dirt back road, now a major thoroughfare was a popular spot for dumping and torching cars, one can safely assume they were stolen too.
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The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inches) in length, the male and female are similar in coloration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary. Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behavior. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. Such attacks sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas.
Because of high mortality in the first year of life, a robin has an average life expectancy of 1.1 years; however, once past its first year it can expect to live longer and one robin has been recorded as reaching 19 years of age. A spell of very low temperatures in winter may also result in significant mortality.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin
I snuck down to the waters edge and snapped a few of this guy from my belly.
Normally, I can't get close to the turtles at the wetlands. They are very skittish and dive into the water at the slightest provocation. This little guy, about 4 inches long, seemed to not care at all that I laid down close to him.
You can always tell if I had a good day or bad day shooting, by how dirty I get. Today I was filthy.
In town looking north east out across the CBD.
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Another double exposure experiment, this time in the stair well from Flagstaff station exiting on the Northern side of Latrobe street.
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A closed shopfront layered with torn rental notices and sun‑bleached ads, each one added, replaced, or half‑removed in the churn of the city. The metal door holds the residue of a thousand small transactions — rooms offered, numbers called, promises made and forgotten. In 2014 it felt like a quiet pause in the middle of Hong Kong’s relentless motion, a moment where the city’s visual noise settled into a kind of accidental collage.
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