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  • Chromatic colours on road surface tarmac in Oban, Scotland.

  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.

  • Tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather on London roads.

  • Bird and human tracks left in freshly-fallen snow in a South London Park.

  • Low sunlight shines across frozen snows in English woodland.

  • A zig-zag trail of bare grass is left by snowman-builders in fast-disappearing snow after winter snows brought seasonal disruption to London, but a welcome playground for those on school-free days.

  • A glowing rear car indicator light shines through freshly-fallen snow at dawn in a South London street.

  • A road's double-yellow lines lie under slush and ice after a wintry spell in inn-London.

  • A vacated parking space in a South London road has left a bare patch in freshly-fallen snow.

  • A tuna fish's sharp yellow fin protrudes from shredded ice at the Cyprea Marine Foods processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.

  • Street sign among snow-covered trees during wintry snows in south London.

  • Blurred English woodland landscape of straight trees and winter snows.

  • The shadow of a Christmas tree display from an adjacent Xmas shop, on a brick wall.

  • The shadow of bare branches on house wall belonging to an immense London Plane tree in the borough of Lewisham.

  • A detail of a shoe shop window that has closed for economic reasons. The window is in Victoria, the area of central London close to the mainline station and has been distempered with a mixture of white emulsion paint and water which prevents outsiders from peering inside, where stock may still be stored. Swirls from the cloth that wiped the paint across the glass has left a chaotic and confusing trace that makes it an almost abstract piece of art made by a disturbed artist. The word Shoe remains in bright red lettering and the single letter M afterwards. ..

  • On a partially-demolished building, a mural of the ancient Goddess Nike remains chipped and scraped on an old restaurant wall. Nike was the Goddess of Victory to whom Olympic athletes made offerings and prayers at the Temple of Zeus before competition but this site is in the heart of the modern town of Olympia that has grown up around the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, an American flag has been sprayed with aerosol paint on a grassy knoll by a local garage owner near Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as America sought to express their emotions and a unity. A spotlight shines across the bank to show passing motorists the creative stars and stripes artwork on the roadside. Sinking Spring's Native American tribe in this were known as the Minsi or Wolf tribe who had the reputation for being quite warlike at times..

  • An out of focus post with a light bulb attached, shines in the bright daylight with the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Cocoa beach is on Florida's so-called Space Coast, a resort of beaches, clubs, seafood restaurants and motels that came to life during the 1960s due to America's space program. NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located approximately 15 miles away. The Atlantic Ocean is flat calm in settled weather and the horizon is clear and well-defined with a ship just visible on the right side. Focus is on the sea rather than the post and the light bulb which look like a surreal addition to the landscape. Cocoa Beach served as a playground for many of the astronauts and NASA space industry workers and contractors during the heyday of the space race. After manned space flights, the town held astronaut parades. Before there was a "Silicon Valley," Cocoa Beach and other surrounding towns were full of the best and brightest technical minds around.

  • The sign for an Assembly Point is on a white wall, cracked and unsafe near a construction site.

  • Red cord wrapped around London Plain tree trunk.

  • Weather-beaten wooden panels of barn doors in a meadow near village of Kälbermühle in German Black Forest region.

  • Red and white tape and cane telling pedestrians not to walk on freshly-laid lawn in the City of London.

  • The lights from a jet airliner trail themselves during a long, hand-held time exposure above London skies.

  • Peeling billboard poster sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.

  • Dystopian landscape in peeling billboard advertising sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.

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