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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family04-13-07-1964.jpg
  • Patriotic pensioner Ivor Dowling attaches the Welsh flag beneath the Union Jack to fly in his back Somerset garden.
    electricity002-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,489, a further 113 victims in the last 24hrs, and the government's pandemic lockdown still in effect, a head sculpture of a young girl rests in long grass in the back garden of a south London property, on 31st May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-02-31-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,489, a further 113 victims in the last 24hrs, and the government's pandemic lockdown still in effect, a head sculpture of a young girl rests in long grass in the back garden of a south London property, on 31st May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-03-31-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,489, a further 113 victims in the last 24hrs, and the government's pandemic lockdown still in effect, friends and neighbours sit apart practicing social distancing while enjoying drinks in evening sunshine in the back garden of a south London property, on 31st May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-01-31-05-2020.jpg
  • Gnomes and garden figures displayed below an electricity pylon in a back Somerset garden.
    electricity010-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Flowerpots stored by fencing in the corner of an English back garden
    garden_flowerpots01-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Green sheets and a yellow pillowcase dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-08-18-08-2019.jpg
  • Green sheets and a yellow pillowcase dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-07-18-08-2019.jpg
  • Green sheets dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-03-18-08-2019.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike06-30-09-2013.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike01-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Assorted home-grown vegetable plot in a Somerset back garden. The home-grown organic crops have been sown and nurtured on this privately-owned land in a rural location. Rows of salads, rhubarb, beets, onions and other assorted veg and flowers thrive on this good soil, helping to feed the family living in the nearby bungalow.
    garden_vegetables02-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Green sheets dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-04-18-08-2019.jpg
  • Green sheets and a yellow pillowcase dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-06-18-08-2019.jpg
  • Green sheets dry on a washing line in a back garden of a south London residential house, on 18th August 2019, in London, England.
    garden_washing-02-18-08-2019.jpg
  • A mountain bike left in an overgrown back garden, partially-covered by a thin tarpaulin in undergrowth.
    garden_bike04-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Rhubarb growing in home-grown vegetable plot in a Somerset back garden.
    garden_vegetables03-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Beetroot, lettuces and leeks in a home-grown vegetable plot in a Somerset back garden.
    garden_vegetables01-21-08-2013.jpg
  • A pensioner stoops to lift home-grown beetroot in his Somerset back garden. The home-grown organic crops have been sown and nurtured on this privately-owned land in a rural location. Rows of salads, rhubarb, beets, onions and other assorted veg and flowers thrive on this good soil, helping to feed the family living in the nearby bungalow.
    garden_vegetables06-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Eaten away rhubarb leaves growing in home-grown vegetable plot in a Somerset back garden.
    garden_vegetables04-21-08-2013.jpg
  • "Garden ballet." With hands outstretched, a ten month-old infant supports her weight on some garden chairs as she learns to stand on her own two feet. Without the strength in her legs, she loses her balance and her mother stands behind holding her daughter by the waist preventing her from falling over. It is a warm summer afternoon with both mother and child barefoot on the back garden patio and we see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella18-20-04-1995.jpg
  • A baby girl is crawling on all-fours along her parents' pavement, in a suburban London back garden. Her body weight is spread on two legs and one arm while she moves along confidently, placing her other hand on the warm surface, one summer day. The infant is a approximately 10 months and is gaining strength from her legs which will soon be strong enough to stand and eventually walk. The summer sun is on her back and the shadow of garden chair furniture is on the path alongside her. She has a contented expression on her face as if her little adventure in a big outside, wider world is for her to explore.
    ella_baby10-30-08-2007.jpg
  • A four year-old girl throws a tantrum while playing with her young two-year-old brother in the back garden of their South London home. We look down on the small girl who throws her head back in a rage, mouth wide open, after not getting what she wants. But in the background, her younger sibling is oblivious to her emotional outburst and gets on with playing at the foot of a children's garden slide - in an innocent world of his own. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam14-20-03_2000.jpg
  • A three year-old girl throws her head back with joy while playing with her young one-year-old brother in the back garden of their South London home. We look down on the small girl who throws her head back with delight and the freedom of an early summer afternoon at home. Little brother laughs with pleasure too, sitting on a toy tractor. The picture is slanted to lend a sense of drama. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam10-20-05_1999.jpg
  • A mother trims the fringe of her teenage daughter in the family's back garden.
    ella_haircut01-05-09-2013.jpg
  • As her mother carries out a specially-baked cake with candles to blow, a young girl celebrates her fifth birthday with close friends in her back garden at home.
    fifth_birthday_party-28-08-2000.jpg
  • A young girl of nearly four plays on garden furniture with her younger brother in the back garden of their South London house. The boy is blonde-haired with a healthy tummy storing energy for his games and boyhood fantasies while his sister lies on the soft cushion of the chair during this warm summer afternoon. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam12-08-07_1999.jpg
  • An young infant girl paints her own hand red as she plays with water paints in her back garden, London.
    ella_baby18-30-08-2007.jpg
  • A 4 year-old girl sheds a tear during an emotional moment while playing in her back garden.
    girl_tears-10-09-1999.jpg
  • Detail of green shoots of growing runner bean plant in back garden.
    green_shoots3-27-May-2011.jpg
  • Detail of green shoots of growing runner bean plant in back garden.
    green_shoots2-27-May-2011.jpg
  • Rusting metal stakes and locks in back garden gate in hamlet of Waterloo, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
    5108-RPB59-angus_mchattie89-28-09-20...jpg
  • Detail of green shoots of growing runner bean plant in back garden.
    green_shoots1-27-May-2011.jpg
  • Back garden in an estate at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork,  Ireland, near the local Pfizer factory that manufactures Viagra.
    Cork Viagra07 RBA.jpg
  • An 8 year-old boy plays catch in the back garden of a rural property, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    wrington_family-32-05-05-2018.jpg
  • A middle-aged husband serves a plate of meat to his wife from the family home-made BBQ in the back garden on a summer's afternoon, in June 1989, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    geoff_eileen-06-06-1989.jpg
  • Back garden kindergarten toys in Leonhard-St Leonardo, a Dolomites village in south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei16-17-07-2015.jpg
  • A brother and sister run through the back garden of their South London home. We see the younger sibling - a boy of three leading his big sister by the hand in some sort of follow-my-leader game. He pulls hard to tow the girl along who wears Wellington boots that are too large for her and they both hold out their arms for stability. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
    ella+sam19-20-08_2001.jpg
  • "On all fours." An eleven month-old infant crawls up some back garden steps and into her parents' house. Her head and shoulders are already hidden as she disappears inside. She is exploring a familiar world, being bold, gaining strength and confidence to move independently to eventually stand upright and walk unaided. Someone has taped a short stick to the upper step to help her position herself downwards when exiting the house backwards.  Wearing only a nappy (diaper) it is clearly a warm summer's day. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella20-20-04-1995.jpg
  • "More than you can chew." A ten month-old infant uses new teeth to bite her mother's nose in the back garden of their Victorian south London terrace home. The mum winces in pain as the child sinks her new milk teeth into her skin but they enjoy a warm summer afternoon, playfully interacting with each other in a moment of parental love and harmony. The girl wears a short-sleeved t-shirt and has plump arms of baby fat, a healthy sign of a contented infant. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella17-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Detasill of a green, wooden garden sheds domestic chemicals lined-up on the sill inside.
    garden_shed09-30-09-2013.jpg
  • A mother and daughter take tea and scones in the garden at home in south London, on 18th June 2017.
    garden_teas-01-18-06-2017.jpg
  • Detasill of a green, wooden garden sheds domestic chemicals lined-up on the sill inside.
    garden_shed06-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Detasill of a green, wooden garden sheds domestic chemicals lined-up on the sill inside.
    garden_shed05-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Detasill of a green, wooden garden sheds domestic chemicals lined-up on the sill inside.
    garden_shed01-30-09-2013-2.jpg
  • Detasill of a green, wooden garden sheds domestic chemicals lined-up on the sill inside.
    garden_shed02-30-09-2013.jpg
  • Emma and Martin are a young professional couple living in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. Sitting in their landscaped rear garden the married couple have their portrait taken against a high concrete wall that serves as their property's back boundary. The roofs of neighbouring homes appear over this partition and young tree saplings are fastened to a stake. Poundbury is the visionary model village that the Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury02-07-06_2003.jpg
  • A transport Museum sign welcomes visitors back and empty seating awaits bar and restaurant customers on a wet and rainy day in Covent Garden during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic and when the capital is designated by the government as a Tier 2 restriction, on 21st October 2020, in London, England.
    covent_garden05-21-10-2020-2.jpg
  • A transport Museum sign welcomes visitors back and empty seating awaits bar and restaurant customers on a wet and rainy day in Covent Garden during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic and when the capital is designated by the government as a Tier 2 restriction, on 21st October 2020, in London, England.
    covent_garden06-21-10-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local Dulwich shop owner and historian, Brian Green takes home-made cake back into his house after taking tea with distanced friends in his front garden, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-43-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local Dulwich shop owner and historian, Brian Green takes home-made cake back into his house after taking tea with distanced friends in his front garden, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-42-08-05-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and in Dulwich, neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. Local Dulwich shop owner and historian, Brian Green takes home-made cake back into his house after taking tea with distanced friends in his front garden, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-41-08-05-2020.jpg
  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see two groups representing this colonial territory's population. Commuters walk through Chater Garden about to pass another group of older exercise class. Towering above them all is the Bank of China skyscraper, then the tallest building in Asia, As the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Almost 7 million people call a territory of 1100 sq km home, squeezing onto only 10% of the available land space. This is a metropolis of high population density and one of the world's economic powerhouses.
    hk_exercise07-31-1997_2.jpg
  • A Union Jack flies in the rear garden of a small house that overlooks the Coquet Valley hills, on 25th September 2017, in Rothbury, Northumberland, England.
    rothbury-06-25-09-2017.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-04-10-06-2017.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-02-10-06-2017.jpg
  • A middle-aged lady reads the Guardian newspaper featuring a toothbrush ad and Prime Minister Theresa May with the headline 'Hubris and Humiliation' in a shady spot of her summer garden, Two days after the 2017 general election, on 10th June 2017, in London, England.
    lynda_guardian-01-10-06-2017.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness04-15-05-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness03-15-05-2014.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness01-15-05-2014.jpg
  • A cyclist stoops to fix leg protectors alongside a poster of a model showing stylish shades outside a sunglasses shop window selling Ray Bans on Long Acre in London's Covent Garden.
    ray_ban_store10-04-06-2013.jpg
  • Abandoned and derelict premises at the rear of a former garden centre business, due soon for redevelopment.
    derelict_bsuiness02-15-05-2014.jpg
  • garden_wheelbarrow02-30-09-2013.jpg
  • garden_wheelbarrow01-30-09-2013.jpg
  • garden_wheelbarrow03-30-09-2013.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-24-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-23-20-05-2020.jpg
  • Space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts plays moon-walker at his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  ..
    baker_virgin04.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-28-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-27-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-26-20-05-2020.jpg
  • The number of UK deaths from Coronavirus, a further 363 victims taking the total to 35,704, coincided with the hottest day of the year so far, with 27.8 degrees recorded at Heathrow Airport, and a mother and daughter read their books on the steps of their home's porch in late sunshine while still under the UK government's lockdown rules of social distancing - during a warm evening in Lambeth, south London, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-25-20-05-2020.jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) gives a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo01-14-05-2013.jpg
  • Barbara Christie, 58, sits alone in her conservatory at Swordale House overlooking Beinn Na Caillich (The Hill of the Old Woman) mountain. It is nearly dark at this northern latitude and it looks cosy inside this house with its warm and inviting lights. Barbara's father built this family home and she has lived in this house all her life apart from when studying in Edinburgh many years ago. It sits on a tiny road near Broadford on the Isle of Skye, beneath the magnificent hill whose myth goes back to a Norse Princess saga. Barbara sits in the more recent addition to the house, a conservatory that she enjoys sitting and reading away from her Summer Bed and Breakfast guests. Image taken for the 'UK at Home' book project published 2008.
    9999-RPB59-christies_house05-27-09-2...jpg
  • Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade's 'extrication' team with the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) gives a demonstration on how firefighters rescue passengers by cutting open with dedicated cutting equipment a stretch limousine in London's Covent Garden Piazza. Highlighting the dangers of hiring illegal luxury or novelty cars, this vehicle was seized last year with many mechanical defects rendering it unsafe for those inside with limited exit doors. Of 358 cars stopped in March 2012, 27 were seized and 232 given prohibitions. This scenario is a simulation and therefore reproduces the reality of an emergency, using real emergency services personnel and equipment. Casualties are volunteers and none were injured in the making of this photograph.
    fire_brigade_demo02-14-05-2013.jpg
  • A lady is sandwiched between her just purchased flowers in the back of a white van, returning home from the annual Chelsea Flower Show. It is a summer May afternoon in west London, when lovers of horticulture have gathered from across the country to admire the ultimate in plants and flowers in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital. With its pink blooms hanging from the main bulk of the shrub, the Fuchsia is resplendent in the late sunshine, a scene of quintessential English gardens and long summer days.
    chelsea_show02-26-05-1989.jpg
  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
    A_L_Kennedy03-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
    A_L_Kennedy01-03-09-2007.jpg
  • An image of the Belem Tower in Lisbon and the window of a cake and pastry business in which a baker rinses a heavy pan, on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    covent_garden-07-22-05-2019.jpg
  • An image of the Belem Tower in Lisbon and the window of a cake and pastry business in which a baker washes a heavy pan , on 22nd May 2019, in London, England
    covent_garden-06-22-05-2019.jpg
  • A middle'-aged while in her back garden during the 1980s. It is a close-up detail of the lady's face that shows the lines and wrinkles of a long life, her silver hair swept in a side parting. She sits in summer sunshine in her back garden with a worried look on her face.
    80s_family01-20-10-1986.jpg
  • "One candle." A family are gathered to celebrate the first birthday of a young child, the back garden of her parent's south London home. The birthday girl reaches out to touch the single lit candle on a chocolate log cake while her grandmother and mother both show her how to blow and extinguish the flame instead. Friends and relatives are sat around the garden on a perfect late-summer afternoon, drinking and laughing on this joyous occasion, a milestone in the first year of any young life. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella24-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Surrounded by as few friends, a 15 year-old teenager blows out her candles brought out by her mother, in a London back garden.
    ella_16th_bday27-24-August-2011.jpg
  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997.jpg
  • Pensioner Barbara Dowling sips tea views an electricity pylon from the warm kitchen of her North Somerset home.
    electricity030-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • An electricity pylon is seen through a bedroom window where a pillow
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  • An electricity pylon stands amongst bare trees on a gloomy winter day in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity057-28-12-2007 .jpg
  • A man puts his sunglasses back on after cleaning with a poster of a model showing stylish shades outside a sunglasses shop window selling Ray Bans on Long Acre in London's Covent Garden.
    ray_ban_store01-04-06-2013.jpg
  • A scooter rider looks back at the depth of flooded water after recent showers of a parking space near Covent Garden in central London.
    flooded_scooter02-31-01-2013.jpg
  • An elderly couple sit in peace on a quiet beach in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In a classic English beach holiday scene, the husband and wife relax, reclining in a pair of deckchairs at a kiosk that dispenses these quaintly British beach chairs. A sign telling other holidaymakers to collect and pay for their time in them appears on the freshly-painted clap-board wall. As the lazy completes word puzzles in her magazine, the gentleman reads his regular copy of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper. He is tanned, perhaps spent his summer tending his garden back home but here on holiday, they both have the chance to spend some time together away from home, in a resort known for its beaches and coastal adventures.
    seaside_pensioners02-27-05-1992.jpg
  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
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  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
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  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
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  • A smartly-dressed couple examine a map of London streets near rubbish bags in Long Acre in Long Acre, Covent Garden in the heart of the capital's west end. With their backs to the viewer, we see the man holding an upright suitcase while his partner wearing a formal evening dress reads the map in detail. The green bags provided by Westminster city council are piled to high and spill out on to the pavement (sidewalk)
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