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Best Singularity Builds In Dead By Daylight (June 2023) – GINX Esports TV

Here are all of the best builds for The Singularity in Dead by Daylight.

The Singularity from Chapter 28: End Transmission is Dead by Daylight's newest killer, having been announced during the 7th-anniversary livestream alongside some other major reveals, such as the game's upcoming collab with Slipknot and Iron Maiden.

While we've only just gotten a first look at the killer and its ability during the 23rd May 2023 PTB after the major reveals last week, here's a look at the best builds for The Singularity, including what perks you should use and how to best utilize each loadout.

To pick out the best perks for The Singularity, you'll first need to understand his power and how it works so you can think about how the game's many perks may be able to complement it.

You should also learn more about The Singularity's teachable perks since they come with the killer by default and can be used together to earn Adept Singularity.

Let's go over all of The Singularitys perks:

The Singularity's power is called Quantum Instantiation, which allows him to spawn Biopods around the map that he can use to attack survivors.

The in-game description reads:

A dark Crystalline structure in an ancient ruin gifted - or perhaps cursed - Hux with sentience. He build a new body, and with it, a terrifying way to bend the rules of physics to his benefit.

The Singularity can shoot and spawn Biopods around the map; these Biopods can attach to any verticle surface they land on. The Singularity can control a Biopod remotely and look through it, and tag Survivors, afflicting them with a Temporal Slipstream. When slipstreamed, The Singularity can teleport next to the Slipstreamed Survivor either by using the Biopods to tag them, or by shooting them. When a Slipstreamed Survivor is in proximity to another Survivor, the Slipstream can spread.

SPECIAL STATE OVERCLOCK MODE

After a successful Slipstream teleport, the Singularity enters Overlock Mode. In this state, walls and pallets can be destroyed faster, vaulting speed is faster and he cannot be stunned by pallets. Attempts to stun by pallet merely remove Overclock Mode and momentarily slow the Singularity.

SPECIAL INTERACTION: ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE

At the beginning of each Trial, several supply cases spawn, each containing an EMP. Survivors can use these EMPs to remove the Slipstream from themselves or others, or to briefly disable a Biopod. Once used, the EMP is destroyed.

The Singularity has a lot of map pressure thanks to its Biopods and ability to teleport. This means that it can either benefit from perks that further boost those innate strong abilities, allowing it to move around the map even faster, or use perks that make up for its weaknesses.

With so many perks available in Dead by Daylight, there is not just one build that works well on Singularity - there are many choices. Here are just a few of the best.

When you're just starting out as the Singularity, you'll want to use a build that really takes advantage of its strengths. These perks will help you maintain pressure throughout the match, as well as take down any remaining survivors at the end. All of these builds contain only general perks and perks that are unique to The Singularity, meaning you'll be able to find them in your Bloodweb without purchasing any other characters.

As the Singularity, you'll have the ability to easily pressure generators and ensure that survivors do not quickly complete them thanks to your ability to quickly move around the map. By using the perks in this build, including The Legion's Discordance and The Nemesis' Lethal Pursuer, you can easily find the survivors who are working on generators; Jolt will allow you to apply a little bit of extra regression.

Those are all the best builds for The Singularity, but you might still be wondering which individual perks work best on this killer. After all, creating your own builds can be fun and allow you to try new playstyles.

You can mix and match the following perks to create an incredible build for The Singularity:

We recommend mixing and matching the perks in the builds we've provided to create your favorite loadout. As you familiarize yourself with this killer, you'll determine which perks are your favorites and be able to mix and match these perks effectively.

For more Dead by Daylight news be sure to check out our dedicated section, or some of our Guides & Tutorials, just below:

MAJOR UPDATES - Next Season Start Time |Rank Reset Schedule | Patch Notes | Prime Gaming Rewards | Year 8 Roadmap | DBD Anniversary

GAME GUIDES - Dead By Daylight Codes | Shrine of Secrets This Week| How To Get Bloodpoints Fast | How To Get Bloody Clothes | Cross-Progression Explained| How To Track Stats

TIER LISTS -Dead By Daylight Killers Tier List | Best Survivor Builds Ranked | Best Survivor Perks Ranked |Best Killer Perks Ranked

BEST KILLER BUILDS The Artist|The Blight|The Cannibal|The Cenobite|The Clown|The Deathslinger|The Demogorgon|The Doctor|The Dredge|The Executioner|The Ghost Face|The Hag|The Hillbilly|The Huntress|The Legion| The Mastermind |The Nemesis|The Nightmare|The Nurse|The Oni|The Onry|The Pig|The Plague| The Shape | The Skull Merchant | The Spirit| The Trapper| The Trickster | The Twins | The Wraith

Cole is a Staff Writer at GINX Esports TV based in the United States. He's a lover of all things horror and particularly loves old horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. You can also find him writing about Dead by Daylight and a slew of other games. Outside of writing for GINX, Cole loves cooking and his two cats. You can contact Cole for pitches at [emailprotected].

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The 2023 AICP Awards Honors The Best Advertising of the Year – SHOOT Online

The years best advertising was saluted tonight at The Museum of Modern Art at a gala AICP Awards celebration and screening.

Winners for the 2023 AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial, the AICP Next Awards and the AICP Post Awards premiered earlier in the week at MoMA. The top prizes in each competition the AICP Shows Advertising Excellence and Advertising Excellence/Campaign winners, the Next Awards Most Next winner and the Post Awards Best of Show honoree were highlighted at a presentation at MoMA. The screening was followed by a reception in the museum.

Judging for each of the three AICP Awards competitions were led by their respective Chairpersons: Sally Campbell, Founding Partner of Somesuch, and Chairperson of the AICP Show; Greg Hahn, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Mischief, and Judging Chair for the AICP Next Awards; and Jen Dean, Senior Editor at Cut+Run, and Chairperson of the AICP Post Awards. The Chairs, along with AICP CEO Matt Miller, headlined tonights MoMA gala and shared the winners with an assembled audience of hundreds of professionals from the brand, agency, production and post production ranks.

The AICP Shows Top Honorees The Advertising Excellence/Campaign winner for the AICP Show went to Levis The Greatest Story Ever Worn campaign comprising the spots: Fair Exchange and Legends Never Die, directed by Martin de Thurah of Epoch, and Precious Cargo, directed by Melina Matsoukas of de la revolucin. The campaign was created by Droga5.

The Advertising Excellence winner in the AICP Show went to The Greatest for Apple, directed by Kim Gehring of Somesuch and created by Apple. The piece was also a winner in the categories of Direction, Performance and Licensed Soundtrack or Arrangement.

The most-awarded production companies in the AICP Show were SMUGGLER, with seven honors (one shared with Tempomedia), and the US and UK offices of Somesuch, which also earned seven honors. Partizan earned three honors, followed by Academy, MJZ and Pulse, with two honors each.

The most honored directors in the AICP Show for 2023 was Kim Gehrig of Somesuch, with six honors (one shared with Tajana Tokyo), followed by Aoife McArdle of SMUGGLER with four honors and Antoine Bardou-Jacquet of Partizan with three. The Best New Director honor went to the directing team King SHE of Every Other for their work on Diamonds for Apple Music. (King SHE created this piece with Every Other, and are now part of the Somesuch roster).

The most honored agency in the AICP Show was Apple, with six honors, followed by Squarespace, with four honors. BETC had three honors, while Droga5 and TBWAMedia Arts Lab had two honors each.

The AICP Next Awards Top Winners The Most Next Award, the AICP Next Awards Best of Show honor, went to McEnroe vs. McEnroe, created by FCB New York and produced by 456 Studios /Lord + Thomas. This entry was also a winner in the Experiential, Innovation and Creative Data categories.

As the winner of Most Next, FCB New York directs a $5,000 grant from the AICP Foundation to an organization of their choosing. The agency chose Move United , which provides access and equal opportunity to participate in sports and recreation in their community, regardless of a persons ability. Through its national network of more than 200 community member organizations, it offers programs in more than 70 different adaptive sports and serves over 100,000 individuals with disabilities of all ages each year.

The most honored agency at the Next Awards this year was FCB New York, with five honors, followed by R/GA and TBWAChiatDay with three honors and Mischief @ No Fixed Address and Goodby Silverstein & Partners with two.

The list of most honored production or development companies this year included 456 Studios/Lord + Thomas, with four honors, followed by 1stAveMachine and Sanctuary Content with two honors.

The most honored brand at the Next Awards was Anheuser Busch Michelob ULTRA, with four honors, followed by Hilton and Procter & Gamble, with two honors each.

The AICP Post Awards Top Winners Winners of the AICP Post Awards are presented to the individual post production artists behind the winning pieces.. The Best of Show winner this year went to Editor Stephen Dunne of tenthree for Trust is Earned for the BBC, created by BBC Creative. The entry also won in the categories of Montage and Existing Footage.

Dunne was also the most awarded artist in the AICP Post Awards this year, with three honors. He was followed by 2D Head of Department/VFX Supervisor Ryan Knowles and Head of CG/VFX Supervisor Greg McKneally of Electric Theatre Collective, with two honors. They won in the categories of Composting and CGI for Masterpiece for The Coca-Cola Company, created by BLITZWORKS.

Companies whose artists earned the most honors at the AICP Post Awards included tenthree, whose artists won three honors, followed by Cabin Editing Company and Electric Theatre Collective, whose artists earned two honors each. Cut+Run also earned two honors, one of which it shared with Rock Paper Scissors and The Quarry.

The most honored agencies at the Post Awards were BBC Creative, which earned three honors, followed by Droga5 and BLITZWORKS, which earned two each. Most honored brands included BBC and Levis, with three honors each, followed by adidas and The Coca-Cola Company, with two each.

This years honoree for the AICP Post Impact Award was Hank Corwin, founder of Lost Planet, who was honored at a ceremony earlier in the day which took place at MoMA. An award-winning editor of both commercials and feature films, Corwin was recognized for elevating the role of the editor specifically, and the contributions of post production artists in general, to the overall creative impact of a piece of motion content. Artists and executives who worked under him have carried on his tradition of excellence, while his influence on how post production artists approach their work has stretched beyond commercials, to include people working on everything from films to TV series to music videos.

2023 AICP ShowFactListing

Production Companies On Honored Work

7 Honors SMUGGLER

Production Design Apple Data Auction

Visual Style Squarespace - The Singularity

Cinematography Squarespace -The Singularity

Concept Squarespace - The Singularity

Concept Squarespace - The Singularity BTS

Performance - The National Lottery A Christmas Love Story

Original Music - Mercedes-Benz Be One of Many (shared with Tempomedia)

7 Honors Somesuch

Sound Design Spotify Bad Bunny Quizz Direction Bodyform #Periodsomnia

Performance Apple The Greatest

Licensed Soundtrack or Arrangement Apple The Greatest Advertising Excellence Apple The Greatest

Direction Apple The Greatest Visual Style Apple Music Run This Town

3 Honors Partizan

Production Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Production Design Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Concept Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

2 Honors Academy

Public Service Announcement Alzheimers Society Its Not Called Getting Old Cause EE Its Not Her Problem

2 Honors MJZ

Visual Style Apple Share the Joy Visual Effects Ladbrokes Rocky

2 Honors Pulse Films

Production B&Q Flip

Music Video Harry Styles Music For A Sushi Restaurant

1 Honor

ANORAK Film

Biscuit Filmworks

CANADA

DIVISION

Epoch Films, de la revolucin

Every Other

Golden LA, BMP Production Co.

Happy Place

Hulu

Intergalactic Studios, Craft, Black Kite

Jyra Films

Love Song

Media.Work

Moxie Pictures, Flies Collective, Where the Buffalo Roam, Blink, Google Creative Lab

pgLang/project3, Freenjoy, Red Productions

Rebolucion

Sanctuary Content

Brigham Young University

Filmakademie Baden-Wrttemberg

Scoundrel

Directors On Honored Work

6 Honors Kim Gehring

Direction Bodyform #Periodsomnia

Performance Apple The Greatest

Licensed Soundtrack or Arrangement Apple The Greatest Advertising Excellence Apple The Greatest

Direction Apple The Greatest Visual Style Apple Music Run This Town (with Tajana Tokyo)

4 Honors Aoife McArdle

Visual Style Squarespace - The Singularity

Cinematography Squarespace -The Singularity

Concept Squarespace - The Singularity

Concept Squarespace - The Singularity BTS

3 Honors Antoine Bardou-Jacquet

Production Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Production Design Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Concept Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

1 Honor

Alfred Marroquin Aube Perrie Billy Boyd Cape BRIGHTNIGHT Daniel Warwick Dave Free, Kendrick Lamar Elias Omar Ben Dahhou Fiona Jane Burgess Franois Rousselet Igor Sordokhonov Illimitworld Ivan Zachari Jeff Low Jordan Bahat, Brian & Gordy Juan Cabral King She Lope Serrano Martin de Thurah, Melina Matsoukas Nicolai Fuglsig Oscar Hudson Remington Butler Sasha Rainbow Seb Edwards TAO/S Tom Hooper Tyler Okonma Vellas

Agencies on Honored Work

6 Honors Apple

Best New Director Apple Music Diamonds

Performance Apple The Greatest

Licensed Soundtrack or Arrangement Apple The Greatest Advertising Excellence Apple The Greatest

Direction Apple The Greatest Visual Style Apple Music Run This Town

4 Honors Squarespace

Visual Style Squarespace The Singularity

Cinematography Squarespace The Singularity

Concept Squarespace The Singularity

Concept Squarespace The Singularity BTS

3 Honors BETC

Production Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Production Design Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

Concept Canal+ The Secret Of Wakany

2 Honors Droga5

Advertising Excellence/Campaign Levis The Greatest Story Ever Worn Editorial Meta Amani

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Gartner Summit 2023 Recap | Maximizing Value In Defense of the … – SentinelOne

Gartners annual Security & Risk Management Summit hosted this week drew in more than 4300 attendees a far larger crowd than recent years. Each year, cybersecurity and risk management leaders from across the globe gather to drive digital change, improve their responsiveness to the threat landscape, and share strategies on how to achieve security excellence.

At this years event, many of the conversations centered around how leaders could become proactive business partners, leaning into an offensive pursuit of understanding cyber threats while upkeeping a strong defense.

For those who couldnt join us in person in National Harbor, Maryland, this post highlights notable takeaways straight from the SentinelOne team on the ground.

Gartners Senior Director Analyst, Henrique Teixiera, kicked off the 2023 event by setting a scene all too familiar in todays threat climate. Many CISOs are burnt out and feel they have little control over their stressors or work-life balance, he said. Cybersecurity leaders and their teams are putting in the maximum effort, but its not having maximum impact. As the cost of cyberattacks continues to climb and threat actors further streamline their tactics, many leaders are readjusting their strategies to maximize cybersecuritys impact for their businesses.

This years keynote introduced the idea of the minimum effective mindset a fundamental shift in how leaders approach ROI and lead cybersecurity into the future. Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, explained that this mindset enables cybersecurity functions to go beyond merely defending the fort to unlocking their true potential to create tangible value. In this frame of thinking, a stronger security practice can be achieved when leaders shed the notion that security teams must give maximum inputs to get maximum impact and value out of their security investments.

Expanding on the topic of value, both keynote speakers busted several myths to illustrate this philosophical shift. One such myth is that more security tools equals better protection. Not true, said the analysts. Instead, having a minimum effective toolset, or the fewest technologies required to observe, defend, and respond to threats actually help organizations achieve better protection.

Using EDR and XDR technologies, modern enterprises have been empowered to move beyond traditional protection-only tools towards holistic and real-time management across entire digital landscapes. To showcase the power of EDR and XDR platforms, Gartner analysts hosted their first EDR/XDR Showfloor Showdown at this years summit event.

The showdown pitted Prateek Bhajanka, SentinelOne Field CISO and former Gartner analyst, in a friendly competition against industry peers from Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks. Prateek demonstrated how the SentinelOne Singularity Platform addresses a set of use cases defined by Gartner analysts. Prateeks energetic presentation and the powerful capabilities of our platform kept a standing-room only audience engaged to the end.

Global spending on cybersecurity tools numbers in the range of billions per year, but cyber attackers continue to permeate every industry without pause. Facing the reality of shrinking budgets and evolving threats, it is critical for enterprise leaders to extract value from their security tools and make the right investments. This means learning how to leverage the existing potential of their current stacks.

In another packed session, Prateeks presentation, Make Every Dollar Count: Maximizing Value of Security Investments, provided attendees with actionable information for optimizing the value of existing cybersecurity expenditures and tips for making informed decisions to combat cyber threats while working within limited budgets.

This presentation is now available in an on-demand webinar. Watch here!

In todays fast expanding cyber threat ecosystem, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become key drivers in automating the processes needed to identify and respond to advanced cyber threats. Designed to learn emerging threat patterns and identify new, malicious behaviors based on existing TTPs, exploits, and malware, AI and ML will continue to transform the security community in ways yet to be discovered.

The SentinelOne booth at Gartners summit sought to showcase the spirit of using AI and ML to power modern cloud security strategies. Proud to be at the leading edge of this innovative work, we highlighted the cloud workload protection, real-time detection, simplified automated response, and hybrid cloud unification delivered by Singularity Cloud.

With tens of thousands of accounts spread across multiple clouds, modern organizations need the right security defending their cloud infrastructure. Singularity Cloud works by extending distributed, autonomous endpoint protection, detection, and response to compute workloads running in both public and private clouds, as well as on-prem data centers.

Learn more about how SentinelOnes AI-powered cloud security is focused on responding faster and smarter to improve your cloud security plan and fuse autonomous threat hunting, EDR capability, and security together to fit your business.

As more enterprises journey onwards towards digital transformation to get ahead of both cyber threats and business risks, security leaders must act as agents of change to implement the minimum effective mindset across data, technology, cyber expertise, and operational controls.

This theme was carried throughout the various sessions featured at this years summit, with several notable ones summarized below:

In a session designed to help security pros understand and prioritize the myriad capabilities and acronyms that make up cloud security cooking ingredients, Gartner Senior Director Analyst Charlie Winckless asked the audience, Is your cloud kitchen in order? He described what each technology brings to an organization, and when and how to use them most effectively.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) was also addressed as a key part of the value equation. According to Gartner VP Analyst Pete Shoard, MDR solutions differentiate on their actionable deliverables and business-driven outcomes, meaning that the most effective MDR providers work to understand customers business needs to deliver only the most relevant deliverables, risks, and outcomes.

Attendees were also asked to check their XDR state of mind when Gartner VP Analyst Chris Silva discussed the path to an XDR architecture. He explained that rich context in XDR relies on multiple tools sharing correlated data for instant consumption by an analyst or playbook. He outlined three paths for organizations with different needs: data integration, process integration, and risk visibility. Each path included elements of value whether through tool consolidation, data prioritization based on cost, or integration and optimization.

The Singularity XDR Platform empowers security teams with a more efficient way to protect their business critical data and assets against todays sophisticated threats. By unifying extended detection and response capabilities across security layers including endpoint, cloud, identity, network, and mobile, security teams can automate response across their technology stack and gain end-to-end visibility for maximum value.

Singularity XDR is trusted by customers worldwide who aim to approach cybersecurity from a faster, more autonomous angle. Across any digital or analog surface, Singularity XDR:

This years summit has been another one for the books and the incredible turnout has bolstered SentinelOnes resolve to keep innovating, investing, and pushing for a safer future. Wed like to thank Gartner for hosting this value-driven event where cybersecurity vendors, presenters, and customers alike were able to share their insights and new ideas on how to better our approach to both proactive and defensive security.

To learn more about how SentinelOne can help protect your organization, contact us or book a demo and see our value-driven security offerings first hand.

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Sh*t That Comes Out Today – June 9, 2023 – MetalSucks

Im high on the fumes of Canadian wildfires drifting to the East Coast, so lets just get into the new release calendar while I can still breathe.

Purge (Avalanche Recordings)

Industrial metal pioneers Godflesh return with their latest effort, Purge. Inspired by and thematically picking up where 1992s Pure left off. All the Godflesh hallmarks are hereclanging drums machine, downtuned, sparse riffing, tight rhythms and Justin Broadricks instantly-recognizable vocal deliveryand Purge definitely captures the same feeling as Pure. Songs like Land Lord and You Are the Judge, the Jury and the Executioner show that Godflesh have plenty of ideas left in the tank and take a different direction from 2017s Post Self.

Thoughts and Prayers (Self-release)

Current and former members of Megadeth, Left to Die, Gruesome, Venom Inc., Soilwork and more team up for more old-school grind madness in Kill Division. Thoughts and Prayers puts a heavy emphasis on the bands punk influences with covers of Minor Threat and Suicidal Tendencies, plus Slayers World Painted Blood. The title track kicks things off and is an original. If World Downfall is your classic grind record of choice, tap in to what Kill Division are laying down.

The Singularity (Phase II Xenotaph) (Nuclear Blast)

The wheels turn slowly, but the wheels turn. Melodic/progressive death metal give us their seventh album in the follow up to last years The Singularity (Phase I: Neohumanity). Of course, its been nearly 10 years since that album came out but Xenotaph confirms that Scar Symmetry havent lost their chops in that time. It took a long time for their seventh record to come to fruition, having been in the works to some extent since 2016, and sometimes the album feels a bit formulaic despite that. Still, its a minor gripe and its good to have Scar Symmetry back.

Adderall (Roadrunner)

Things have been fucking weird in the Slipknot camprecap here if you needand it seems to have culminated with the release of Adderall, the first EP in the bands history. Presumably their last release for Roadrunner, it features the previously-released Death March, three versions of Adderall and new tracks Red or Redder and Hard to Be Here. The non-Adderall tracks are clearly mood pieces or interludes meant to bookend the various versions of the songs. Adderall is probably a mostly-for-the-diehards release, but its cool to see that Slipknot can still cause a stir with their weird theatrics.

Primeval Onslaught (20 Buck Spin)

Lets get right to the hackin and slashin with Portland, Oregons Torture Rack. Their new album, Primeval Onslaught, channels filthy old-school death metal vibes in a way that most of their peers fail to achieve. In large part, its due to the songwriting: Torture Racks music sounds and feels era-appropriate but their songwriting isnt a total rehash. Morning Star Massacre and Fucked by Death take a deathgrinding approach to things while the other eight tracks will split you wide open OSDM style.

Other Shit That Comes Out Today:

Cynic, ReFocus (Cynical Sphere) Extreme, Six (earMUSIC) Listen Glass Casket, Glass Casket (Silent Pendulum) Listen Gridfailure & Interstitia, Sunyata Ontology (Pax Aeternum) Listen The Bleeding, Monokrator (Redefining Darkness) Listen

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Heads up, metal legion! Thunderflix is blasting Agallochs epic concert film straight to your screens. Filmed at Belgiums Biebob (still echoing with their riffs), this is the apex of black, doom, and neofolk metal. Their upcoming reunion show sold out faster than a double-kick drum beat, so dont miss this chance to headbang with Agalloch in the comfort of your living room! Crank it up.

1985 Indestructible

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A Veritable Aviary of Birds and Pollinators by The Paper Ark Are … – Colossal

Art Craft #animals #birds #miniature #paper #The Paper Ark #watercolor

Peahen. All images Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, shared with permission

Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, of The Paper Ark, approach conservation and environmental activism on a tiny scale. The artists (previously) create miniature renditions of flora and fauna that harness the textured, buildable potentials of paper toshowcase the beauty and singularity of threatened and endangered species.

After cutting and layering tiny bits of the material, Shrimali and Bird add details with watercolor, whether on the striped quills of a crested porcupine or the regal crown of the peahen. While largely true to life in anatomy and color, most of the portraits are small enough to fit on the tip of a finger.

Shrimali shares that The Paper Ark has started to create hand-cranked wildlife automata, which you find along with an extensive archive of creatures on Instagram. Shop prints and available originals on Etsy.

Albino ruby-throated hummingbird

Crested porcupine

Endangered pollinators

Madagascan sphinx moth

Glorius scarab beetle

Cape sugarbird

Great egrets

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