Black-Headed Gull
8.2.2025 - 47°21′57″ N / 8°32′16″ E
The gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is loud, opportunistic, and completely unapologetic. It has learned that everything is food and everyone is weak.
It doesn’t forage.
It steals.
It doesn’t hunt.
It waits for mistakes.
Too quiet? Screaming.
Too close? Screaming.
Too confident? Louder screaming.
The gull does not ask.
It takes.
This is not survival.
This is entitlement with wings.
Nikon Z9 - Nikkor Z 70-200 mm 1:2.8 VR S - ISO 320 - f/10 - 1/1600
Crested Tit
3.1.2026 - 59°11′00″ N / 18°24′00″ E
The crested tit (lophophanes cristatus) is small, twitchy, and fundamentally opposed. It wears a punk haircut in the conifer forest and behaves accordingly.
It doesn’t peck.
It attacks.
It doesn’t look for food.
It looks for trouble.
Too quiet? Noise.
Too close? Noise.
Too much world? More noise.
The crested tit does not adapt.
The forest adapts.
Punk doesn’t die.
It flies.
Nikon Z9 - Nikkor Z 400 mm 1:4,5 VR S - ISO 1800 - f/4.5 - 1/1600
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
‘90s - 40° 46′ 58″ N / 73° 57′ 32″ W
Many New Yorkers affectionately call the Guggenheim “the fancy parking garage” or “the upside-down wedding cake”. Frank Lloyd Wright would probably have smiled or strongly objected.
Frank Lloyd Wright worked on this design for 16 years, producing more than 700 sketches before the iconic, organic building was finalized.
No one leaves the Guggenheim in a completely “normal” way. The spiral ensures that even the most hurried visitors eventually looks as if they are thoughtfully strolling through a work of art. Intentional? Maybe. Elegant? Definitely.
Canon IXUS II APS - Canon Lens 23-46mm - 1:4.2-5.6 - Kodak Advantix 400
Nuthatch
3.1.2026 - 59°11′00″ N / 18°24′00″ E
The nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is small, compact, and permanently grumpy.
It runs headfirst down tree trunks, shouts its territory into submission, and cracks nuts with the determination of a piece-rate craftsman.
Its home? Bricked up.
Too big? Clay.
Too open? More clay.
The nuthatch doesn’t negotiate, it executes!
Nikon Z9 - Nikkor Z 400 mm 1:4,5 VR S - ISO 720 - f/4.5 - 1/1000
Red Squirrel
31.12.2025 - 59°11′00″ N / 18°24′00″ E
This nameless European red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), unmistakably hungry and pleasantly cheeky, is one of our regular neighbours in Dyviksudd (59°11′00″ / 18°24′00″). Its fleeting appearances offer small moments of connection between human presence and the surrounding natural world.
Nikon Z9 - Nikkor Z 400 mm 1:4,5 VR S - ISO 1600 - f/4.5 - 1/640