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  • Bare winter tree with bare branches in front of construction sheeting themed with green leaves.
    tree_sheeting02-07-01-2011.jpg
  • Bare winter tree with bare branches in front of construction sheeting themed with green leaves.
    tree_sheeting04-07-01-2011.jpg
  • Bare winter tree with bare branches in front of construction sheeting themed with green leaves.
    tree_sheeting03-07-01-2011.jpg
  • 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.
    london_colour05-12-01-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    london_colour02-12-01-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    london_colour06-12-01-2010.jpg
  • Visitors point to locations on a map of central London, with shadows of bare branches on wall.
    tree_shadows09-07-04-2011.jpg
  • Bleak landscape of cold English fields and bare trees during wintry conditions in North Somerset.
    snow_woodland19-26-12-2010.jpg
  • The shadows of bare bough trees on the brick wall of a south London Catholic church.
    brick_wall01-09-12-2010.jpg
  • A pair of bare walker's feet enjoying the cooling nature of a mountain river in Italy.
    italy_dolomites19-18-07-2015.jpg
  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_summer04-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Shadows of bare branched trees on white wall behind National Portrait Gallery.
    tree_shadows11-07-04-2011.jpg
  • Women and shadows of bare branched trees on pavement and white wall behind National Portrait Gallery.
    tree_shadows03-07-04-2011.jpg
  • The cross on the wall of Herne Hill's United Reform Church and shadow of bare winter tree.
    tree_cross01-09-01-2011.jpg
  • Bleak landscape of cold English fields and bare trees during wintry conditions in North Somerset.
    snow_woodland20-26-12-2010.jpg
  • The shadow of bare branches on house wall belonging to an immense London Plane tree in the borough of Lewisham.
    tree_wall06-09-12-2010.jpg
  • The shadow of bare branches on house wall belonging to an immense London Plane tree in the borough of Lewisham.
    tree_wall05-09-12-2010.jpg
  • The shadow of bare branches on house wall belonging to an immense London Plane tree in the borough of Lewisham.
    tree_wall03-09-12-2010.jpg
  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido02-08-25-1995.jpg.jpg
  • Seen from ground-level, a pair of feet in white trainers are seen large in the foreground on lush grass, one standing on a foot pump as it inflates a camping lilo air bed on a summer afternoon at the Trewethett Farm Caravan Club Site, Tintagel, Cornwall. Seen through the man's bare legs, the man's wife sits in front of the caravan's awning on a sun chair, cuddling the family pet dog. Caravanning is one the favourite leisure pastimes in Britain, its association, the elite Caravan Club, was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly 1 million members (caravanners, motor caravanners and trailer tenters) and has an  annual turnover of £86 million. On the open road, the caravan is as ridiculed and despised for its slowness and the width it occupies on narrow country lanes.
    RB-0055.jpg
  • Visitors read instructions  for hiring rental bikes in central London, with shadows of bare branches on wall.
    tree_shadows12-07-04-2011.jpg
  • Lady cyclist reads Barclays-sponsored bike rental instructions with shadows of bare branches on white wall.
    tree_shadows07-07-04-2011.jpg
  • Shadows of bare branched trees on pavement and white wall behind National Portrait Gallery.
    tree_shadows06-07-04-2011.jpg
  • The shadow of bare branches on house wall belonging to an immense London Plane tree in the borough of Lewisham.
    tree_wall02-09-12-2010.jpg
  • 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.
    london_colour06-12-01-2010.jpg
  • London homes and trail of bare grass after snowman-building in a few inches of snow during early 2010 snows that gripped the UK.
    london_snows19-07-01-2010.jpg
  • A vacated parking space in a South London road has left a bare patch in freshly-fallen snow.
    london_snows01-13-01-2010.jpg
  • Young woman photographs a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
    male_mural01-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Men walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
    male_mural14-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Older, obese woman walks past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
    male_mural13-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
    male_mural12-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Two women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
    male_mural09-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
    male_mural06-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Two women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
    male_mural05-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Elderly couple walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model.
    male_mural03-22-03-2012.jpg
  • A Muslim mother and son walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, a clash of western and eastern cultures.
    male_mural10-22-03-2012.jpg
  • Two women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
    male_mural04-22-03-2012.jpg
  • It is mid-day on the narrow stretch of river, green lilly pads float on its surface and in unbder a fierce sun overhead, three young men are lazily making their way to the viewer in a rowing boat on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. The young male in the middle is the one rowing and he pulls on one oar to steer around an unseen obstacle in the absolutely calm, clear blue waters of this majestic river whose source rises in deepest Gloucestershire to its industrial estuary in the English Channel 215 miles (346 km) away. But here in Oxfordshire, we see an idyllic scene of adventure and peace on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English midsummer day. 'Three men in  a Boat' published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
    thames_boating02-07-18-2001.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-93-17-09-2019.jpg
  • Workmen clear away sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes3-04-September-2011.jpg
  • Workmen clear away sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes2-04-September-2011.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of a Boeing 747 cockpit at the storage facility at Mojave, California. The wiring of the now-extinct flight engineer's console is a jumble of old technology. Either by age or cooling economy airliners are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
    aviation_corbis43-15-08-1998.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-94-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-89-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A classic phone box kiosk leans at an angle while advertising cage fighting, on 25th March 2019, in London, England.
    phone_box-01-25-03-2019.jpg
  • Two 1990s office workers sunbathe on grass during their lunchtime, on the grass in the City of London (aka The Square Mile), the capital's financial centre, on 20th June 1992, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    90s_sunbathing-20-06-1993.jpg
  • A detail of a shop mannequins feet and legs in the window of a business, on 18th April 2017, in London, England.
    retail_window-03-18-04-2017.jpg
  • Vandalised and stripped bike frame lying on a central London street pavement.
    bike_frame01-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Mother and child enjoy spring weather in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth.
    ruskin_park01-18-02-2015.jpg
  • Two old friends regularly spend afternoons sunbathing at Brixton Lido and talk of old times in the sun. The friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido_men01-25-08-1995.jpg
  • With feet up on airport seating, a migrant worker awaits his homeward flight from Bahrain to South-Asia. Sitting with legs gathered and with shoes removed - in the manner that people subjected to fierce desert or tropical heat try to keep cool, although in this airpirt terminal building, air-conditioning allows more comfort. The young man works on building projects somewhere in the middle-east region and is either in transit of beginning his journey to India, Pakistan or perhaps Bangladesh, seen here months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    bahrain_airport_passenger02-21-04-20...jpg
  • Workmen clear away sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes4-04-September-2011.jpg
  • Discarded sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes1-04-September-2011.jpg
  • An elderly man sunbathes on a summer beach in the seaside resort of Paignton, England. The gentleman looks out across the stretch of sandy coast at low-tide and a square pool made by flooding high-tide sea water provides a natural place to swim when the sea is far out. The male in the foreground is seen in close-up and we see the expanse of his back covered in freckles. After many sunny hours beneath solar rays he is tanned but not burned. Nevertheless, he is at risk of the pigment in those freckles turning into melanomas, the cause of skin cancer. More than 10,000 people a year are developing the deadliest form of skin cancer as a result of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds. Cases of malignant melanoma rose by 650 (6.5 per cent) in a single year as a result of binge-tanning at home and abroad, according to Cancer Research UK.
    beach_freckles-31-08-2010.jpg
  • A half-eaten bar of chocolate has been left on an armchair supplied by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seen in a crew room at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Much of the facilities at RAF and MoD outposts are basic and spartan leaving small luxuries to be imported by visiting air and ground crew. In this case, the 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are occupying this building while on their detachment to the British Mediterranean base while putting the finishing touches to their air display routines ready for PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'). After passing this test, they are then allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called Reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms. Since 1965 the team has flown over 4,000 air shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows134_RBA.jpg
  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
    butlins_pool08-16-1986.jpg
  • The last day of liquidated trading for shoppers in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths. ..
    woolworths09-05-01_2009.jpg
  • The last customers help themselves to sweets at the Pic n Mix dispenser in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths.
    woolworths08-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Flour delivery and football club shelter and bench in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits38.jpg
  • An employee works diligently in an open plan office at an auditing company's London headquarters
    ernst+young408-09-08-2007.jpg
  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors66-09-02-2008...jpg
  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees and Westminster and city behind, SE24
    ernst+young_counsillors69-09-02-2008...jpg
  • US Air airliner cabin floor and magazine in arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard05-16-03-2008.jpg
  • Airliner and jet engines in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard07-16-03-2008.jpg
  • Airliner parts in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard08-06-04-2008.jpg
  • Mannequins wear sexy underwear on display in the window of an adult shop window in London's Old Brompton Street, Soho.
    electricity130-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Looking up towards majestically tall 100 year-old mature Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
    ernst+young_counsillors64-09-02-2008...jpg
  • An adult business window displays the naughty underwear worn by five mannequin models of a Soho sex shop on Old Compton Street in London's West End. Tilted slightly to the left, we see the 5 models posing in various positions of suggestive stances, all demonstrating the shop's array of erotic clothing for the Good Time Girl! On the far right is the artwork of a topless woman, wearing only knee-length stockings. See from behind, the line-drawing of the female suggests a dancer on a Parisian stage act such as the Folies Bergere or Paradis Latin - variety performances for the male admirer. She looks over her left shoulder as if to wink in our direction, all part of the illusion of coquettish desire and greedy eroticism. Old Compton Street is known for cafes, bars and especially the gay, trans-gender scene and for sellers of erotic toy 'accessories'!
    electricity129-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Pedestrians pass each other while walking through Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    city_people08-06-08-2020.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-92-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-91-17-09-2019.jpg
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London.
    people_shadows04-19-12-2013.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_graveyard04-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • On stage, a beautiful topless dancer with a gentleman admirer during a variety show at the famous Parisian cabaret company Paradis Latin, Paris France. In front of glittery stars, the two ladies of the night are dressed in satin stockings and suspenders, flirting with this male dressed in top hat and tails, holding the hand of one lady and the about to kiss the cheek of the other, all the time lit with stage spotlights and the silhouetted heads of the front row audience at the bottom of the picture. The two girls appear to be twins but are probably wearing blonde wigs to make them look like a male 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' fantasy. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    paris_cabaret1-26-12-1994.jpg
  • Discarded sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes7-04-September-2011.jpg
  • Discarded sexist ad posters lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site.
    street_nudes5-04-September-2011.jpg
  • Changeable theatre production lightboxes, awaiting new posters outside the Gielgud theatre.
    theatre_panels01-02-02-2011.jpg
  • A rather obese woman stands in the waves at the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. With hands behind her back and fingers interlocked the lady wears a turquoise bathing costume that just about fits her ample, wide body. Her bottom is large as are her legs that have cellulite on the tops of her thighs. She looks left alone, a solitary person standing with her back to the viewer - or perhaps she is standing guard, keeping watch on children as they play safely in the sea. Water splashes against her lower legs and is frozen still by a fast shutter speed. It is a fine, bright sunny afternoon on this Eastern coast of England, more noted for very changeable weather rather than the heatwave experienced here.
    obese_bather.jpg
  • On stage, two beautiful topless girls stand semi-naked with a gentleman admirer during a variety show at the famous Parisian cabaret company Paradis Latin, Paris France. In front of glittery stars, the two ladies of the night are dressed in satin stockings and suspenders, flirting with this male dressed in top hat and tails, holding the hand of one lady and the about to kiss the cheek of the other, all the time lit with stage spotlights and the silhouetted heads of the front row audience at the bottom of the picture. The two girls appear to be twins but are probably wearing blonde wigs to make them look like a male 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' fantasy. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    RB_049-26-12-1994.jpg
  • Trunk of an Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, London.<br />
<br />
A limited edition (6 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
<br />
The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
<br />
For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
    Z33_exhibition07-09-02-2008.jpg
  • A young boy browses through last remaining DVDs in the closing Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store...
    woolworths07-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Sheets of posters telling the last customers of the closure and liquidation of the Woolworths Camberwell branch ..
    woolworths04-05-01_2009.jpg
  • Fading, graduated light of the arid Sonoran desert shows the remains of airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California, their silhouettes forming a line of aviation's by-gone era. Because of age or a cooling economy they are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903...
    aviation_corbis41-15-08-1998.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of Boeing 747 airliners at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world?s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis40-15-08-1998.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sits the gutted remains of a Lockheed Tri-Star airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world?s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through the sleek curves. Elsewhere, Jumbo jets, Airbuses and assorted Boeings sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis39-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Opening security gate asking visitors to stop and ring here at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    lambermont-biscuits54.jpg
  • On a misty morning, a single pony grazes in a field in front of the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont, Belgium.
    Lambermont_biscuits_39.jpg
  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors67-09-02-2008...jpg
  • Trunk of a  100 year-old mature Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors68-09-02-2008...jpg
  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees Westminster and city behind, SE24
    ernst+young_counsillors71-09-02-2008...jpg
  • Economy class seats in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard06-16-03-2008.jpg
  • Oxygen mask survival equipment in airliner cabin at Mojave airport desert facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard09-09-04-2008.jpg
  • Stored old airliners sit in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.
    aviation_graveyard03-16-03-2008.jpg
  • An electricity L6 pylon stands framed in height restriction poles on industrial wasteland at Barton Down, Canterbury, Kent
    electricity290-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • National Grid electricity instalation on industrial wasteland at Barton Down, Canterbury, Kent
    electricity291-25-01-2008 .jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-90-17-09-2019.jpg
  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing 747 airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_graveyard02-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • Thirty topless women supporters of Climate Change activists, Extinction Rebellion protest outside the UK parliament railings, on 10th September 2020, in London, England. Locked with D-locks around their necks, their banner reads ‘Can’t Bare the Truth?’ and wearing face masks branded with ‘4°C', the women were removed and arrested then loaded into police vans where they placed their hands on the windows with the same slogan.
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  • Thirty topless women supporters of Climate Change activists, Extinction Rebellion protest outside the UK parliament railings, on 10th September 2020, in London, England. Locked with D-locks around their necks, their banner reads ‘Can’t Bare the Truth?’ and wearing face masks branded with ‘4°C', the women were removed and arrested then loaded into police vans where they placed their hands on the windows with the same slogan.
    XR_parliament09-10-09-2020.jpg
  • Thirty topless women supporters of Climate Change activists, Extinction Rebellion protest outside the UK parliament railings, on 10th September 2020, in London, England. Locked with D-locks around their necks, their banner reads ‘Can’t Bare the Truth?’ and wearing face masks branded with ‘4°C', the women were removed and arrested then loaded into police vans where they placed their hands on the windows with the same slogan.
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