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18 images Created 12 Aug 2010

I'm interested in how depictions of the natural world, of wildlife and often an idyllic perspective of tradition, is being absorbed into the pseudo-landscape.

This theme will continue so watch this space.

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  • The image of a once-famous stag who used to be fed by tourists and the owner of the Oasis cafe on the A82 on Rannoch Moor but shot many times with an air gun by juvenile New Year revellers. Looking out onto the moors it roamed in life, the deer named Big Boy by locals had an insatiable appetite for scraps from outdoor snack bar owner MacDonald and his customers, the stag inched ever closer to the migrant humanity alongside the road. So locally famous did he become that one Hogmanay, the beast was shot several times by air gun-toting juveniles and is now a tragic, posthumous print on the same tourist cafe trailer. Now holidaymakers, unaware of the animal's life and death near this spot, merely stop to photograph the scenery in the hope of seeing the nearby herd that Big Boy ruled over.
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  • Giraffe cut-outs peer over the top of construction hoardings in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 14th December 2022, in London, England.
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  • A cafe parasol featuring the Ibex for Slovenian Lasko beer, a Slovenian favourite drink, on 20th June 2018, Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. Lasko Brewery is the largest brewery in Slovenia and named after the town of Lasko, where it is located. The brewery was founded in 1825 by Franz Geyer, a gingerbread baker and mead producer. After World War II ended in 1945, Lasko was the fifth-largest in Yugoslavia, and by 1991 it was the largest among 28 Yugoslav breweries. It lost much of the Yugoslav market in 1991 after Slovenia declared independence and the resulting Ten-Day War, although sales rebounded during the 1990s. In 2016 Lasko and Union were formally merged into Pivovarna Lasko Union under the owner Heineken.
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  • A woodland landscape where a protest is ongoing in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
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  • Backdrop of Banksy / Disney Jungle Book characters to illustrate de-forestation & loss of animal habitats due to human logging
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  • Holding her doll, a young white child wearing a pink dress explores the Délice Restaurant in old Kourou, French Guiana, South America. The daughter of French parents who are in this French-administered colony in connection with the nearby European Space Agency (ESA). The girl is confident enough to leave her parents' side and appear in an open doorway. On the other side of the wall is a giant brightly-painted mural depicting a more traditional side of life in this tropical country. The word Guyane is the French name for Guiana. A female in national costume stands near a palm tree, local produce and vegetation. Meanwhile a dark-skinned Creole man sits on a stool smoking a cigarette chatting to unseen friends - a barfly occupying his usual lunchtime seat. It is a scene of internationalism, cross-culture and youth versus old age. .
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  • Hidden in a wooden hut, a group of bird-spotting ornithologists peer through binoculars at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) rreserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex England. Watching dozens of wintering birds, the group are intensely looking through their optical equipment in anticipation of seeing rare breeds at this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a wetland alongside the River Thames, 20 miles from Central London. A narrow slit is open to keep them hidden from sight so leaning on elbows and with a guide sheet in front to identify particular species, they concentrate on their hobby. The RSPB has 200 nature reserves covering almost 130,000 hectares, home to 80% of Britain's rarest or most threatened bird species. Its role is to speak out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten the environment.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Wheel clamping in operation warning sign outside Sofitel at Heathrow airport's Terminal 5.
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  • Closed and abandoned primary school playground in Oban, Scotland.
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  • Sprayed or painted mural showing a country cabin landscape, on the side of an industrial building in Mauerpark - an open space on the site of the old Berlin wall, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
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  • A mural depicting God's garden of Eden on wasteland alongside the river Avon in central Bristol.
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  • Graffiti and urban artwork that features pandas and a child's face, on 20th January 2020, in Croydon, London, England.
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  • A countryside printed dress with panoramas of horses outside of a shop in London's Soho.
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  • Park users feed the very common green Parakeets by hand, in Kensington Park, on 2nd April 2021, in London, England. According to the RSPB, the ring-necked, or rose-ringed, parakeet is the UK's most abundant naturalised parrot. It became established in the wild in the 1970s after captive birds escaped or were released. It is a well-known resident of the greater London area, roosting communally in large flocks. The population has been increasing steadily, though it remains concentrated in south-east England. The ring-necked parakeet's native range is a broad belt of arid tropical countryside stretching from west Africa across lowland India south of the Himalayas, where it is a common bird.
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  • A day after the Covid 'Freedom Day', when social distancing and the wearing of face coverings are no longer mandatory, though the majority of City workers remain working from home, a squirrel walks over Bassishaw Highwalk, on 21st July 2021, in London, England.
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  • As members of the public look with curiosity, a disorientated young red fox which runs in broad daylight through the churchyard at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 16th November 2021, in London, England. There are estimated to be 10,000 urban foxes in London but sightings in broad daylight are rare around the concrete office complexes of the capital's Square Mile.
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