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U-193-X

A nature and horror project. Drawings and artefacts as evidence of a similar but distorted world.

Covid hit in my final semester, preventing the physical install I wanted, it had to be online. I was frustrated and turned it into an archive.org project relating to archival aesthetics and institutional opacity. So I made it a chaotic and hard to navigate mess.

Review: "The most horrible thing I have ever seen."

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Edit: weird, this was meant to be a post in the tumblr bugs community, not a post to my blog. It's fine, but strange.

I love bugggssss

A few of my pics. Cabbage white butterfly. Maratus speciosus, the coastal peacock spider. Myrmecia sp. bullant.

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My photo "State the Obvious" in Project See & B, issue 2.

For the theme Signs, I explore my use of and frustration with signs and signalling.

Double exposed film photograph.

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Augusta

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Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

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Niquoll

Embroidery on calico.

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That was a bit of a hiatus. I'm feeling great, but very busy. Being a girl is a lot of work. Hopefully more art soon!

A gift for my lovely housemate @nuclearautumn

Based on a photo I took at Devils At Cradle, in Tasmania.

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First attempt: I calculated everything basically right.

Fuck yes.

Hell of a vignette, but not too bad for a 35mm system lens on 6x8 medium format film.

I've recently created the stupidest camera.

120 film, takes 68 format macro shots.

Body and shutter: a box brownie.

Lens: a broken Canon EF 50mm f/1.8. Which isn't a medium format lens. However, the lens is so far from the film that it should mostly cover the medium format frame.

The obvious side effect of this is the changed focal distance: 51.5mm from lens to subject, which cannot be adjusted.

Aperture: fixed and unknown.

Shutter speed: set by the brownie, so only 1/45 ish or Bulb.

In theory this thing should have excellent image quality (the 50 1.8 is surprisingly nice) and be a nightmare to actually use. Note the almost total lack of exposure control, so I will probably only be able to control exposure with flash or filters, or just having the correct lighting to start with.

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@gaystropod reblogging because I want to add pics! I have never to my knowledge seen M. splendens in person.

I've seen the extremely similar Maratus pavonis many times.

Also the very beautiful Maratus speciosus by carefully tracking them down.

While looking for speciosus, I found M. speculifer, the Black Mirror Peacock Spider, which isn't colourful but is still cool. It's shiny black instead.

How about Maratus rainbowi? (a silly lookin type of peacock spider ^^)

The silly guy from Webbed! Magnificent. I'll be doing the poll on Maratus spendens, because Maratus rainbowi seems to be an inactive taxon. I've included a picture of a female, just for fun.

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Butch Angle

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Wolfen Orwo NC500

Ricoh Singlex TLS

Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm 1:2

A Dutch angle is a tilted shot.

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Hobby: lurking ominously.

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Lomochrome Purple

Model: @nuclearautumn

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Embroider? I ardly knew er.

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Red Winged Fairywren, in non-breeding male colouration. Their colours depend on the season and social role; breeding males have classic blue fairywren colouration, and many of them shed the colourful feathers over the cooler part of the year.

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Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

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It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.

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Lomochrome Purple

Ricoh XR-10

Rikenon 50mm 1:2

Model: Elanor

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Would you believe this is a vertebrate? A fully grown adult snake?

I'm so excited to have finally seen one: a southern blind snake, Anilios australis.

It's so cuuuuute 🥺

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Canon R7

Canon EF-s 35mm IS STM macro

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Trying To Love Her

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Double exposed medium format photograph

Ilford Delta 3200

Ensign Selfix 320

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Rose Tinted

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Ricoh XR-10

Rikenon 50mm 1:2

Lomochrome Purple

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Multi exposed medium format photograph

Lomochrome Metropolis 120

Ensign Selfix 320

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Where Lies The Strangling Fruit

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Lomography Purple 35mm

Ricoh XR-10

Rikenon 50mm 1:2

Extension tubes

Title stolen from Jeff VanderMeer