#urbandecay

While walking around the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, I found this bicycle, a heavy retractable security gate, and a floor mop just by the entrance. It caught my eye straight away. There is something oddly

Macro photography of the detail of a weathered roadside sign in Thailand

Collection of my artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

Collection of artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

This is the final set of five wildlife artworks created from macro photographs of the same old metal gate. The weathered paintwork on this gate has served me well, with 20 artworks created from less than

Another set of five wildlife artworks that I created from macro photographs of the same old metal gate. That makes it 15 images from one gate with another five still to come. When I take the close-up

Five more artworks that were all created from macro photographs of the same old metal gate. It is a painted gate in front of a private house where the original paint, graffiti, and more paint to cover

Selection of wildlife artworks created from macro photographs of the weathered surface of an old metal gate...

One of my own artworks-from-urban-decay called "Starling Fight" as an entry to this week's SMaP contest. Over the years I have developed this style of art where I take macro photographs of weathered

There is some great street art around these days. This isn't it. This is old-style name tagging with a few vulgar, angry words thrown in. However, close-up there is still great beauty to be found...

Redshanks, all 46 of them, facing into the breeze and waiting for the tide to turn so their mudflat feeding areas are exposed. Some of them look a bit hungry and impatient to me. Waders are a common subject

Leopards are dangerous at any time with their faultless stealth, superb weaponry and unlimited patience, and baboons will always be extremely wary of them. However, the baboons themselves can be formidable

Red-wattled lapwings live their lives in the open. Every year they nest on the ground in the field next to our garden so I have a very good chance to see what's going on.

African Safari Homage to a continent I have never set foot upon. And I suspect I never will. These two artworks were created from photographs of urban decay with the help of Photoshop.

To my eye the weathering of our urban world adds a lot of character, and where I live in Thailand road signs are one of the most obvious places to find it. Here is a collection of weathered patterns on

Here is another collection of my wildlife artwork that I make from macro photographs of urban decay. In this case it's birds only! It always starts with searching the corners of our urban world for weathered

Cycling is the best way to get around for me but when looking for the weathered details of our urban world I end up cycling soooo slowly. I am looking for weathered gates, fences, road-signs, vehicles,

For too long I lived in Bangkok. In many ways it is a great place but wildlife is my main interest and a large city is not the ideal site to look for it. But I did manage to find some. It was hiding in

A collection of wildlife artwork created from macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces

Selection of wildlife art created from macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces