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  • Young man reflected in glass who bends down to tie his trainer lace on a busy street corner near Covent Garden.
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  • A businessman stoops down to tie a shoelace, resting his leg in Fye Foot Lane EC4 in the financial City of London.
    city_streets13-31-01-2013.jpg
  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
    shoe_market-11-05-1990.jpg
  • A man bends down to place a Bounty bar into his holdall bag, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    stooping_man-01-14-09-2017.jpg
  • A City businessman bends down to tie a shoelace outside the Guildhall's Art Gallery on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
    tying_shoelace-01-13-02-2017.jpg
  • A cyclist tucks socks in trousers before riding away down Fetter Lane, on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
    bicycle_man-01-13-02-2017.jpg
  • Fossil hunters bend down looking among Eocene rocks and stone at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England
    fossil_hunters02-22-06-2014.jpg
  • Fossil hunters bend down looking among Eocene rocks and stone at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England
    fossil_hunters01-22-06-2014.jpg
  • Beneath reflected light on a wall near the Barbican, a woman bends down to adjust her shoe in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_people-15-08-08-2019.jpg
  • A window shopper bends down to inspect military insignia and buttons in a window on London's regent Street.
    window_shopper01-25-04-2013.jpg
  • A youth bends down on the pavement in Camberwell on 10th July 2019, in south London England.
    bus_journey-01-10-07-2019.jpg
  • A person bends down by a stream near Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on 12th April 2017, in Malham, Yorkshire, England.
    yorkshire-63-12-04-2017.jpg
  • A man bends down to pick-up a biro on Camberwell Green in Southwark, south London, on 22nd August 2019, in London, England.
    bus_journey-03-22-08-2019.jpg
  • A young woman wearing a red theme of beret and scarf, walks down Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus in Soho, carrying some Valentine's Day roses, and photographs herself with a beaming smile, on 14th February 2020, in London, England.
    piccadilly_doorstep-01-14-02-2020.jpg
  • Two women both bend to search for items in their bags, outside a box office entrance, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    bending_women-01-16-02-2017.jpg
  • Woman picks-up dropped item in front of small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. Part of a sequence of 4 images showing the woman in red dropping the Oyster card and subsequently bending down and picking it up.
    romanelli_statue18-28-10-2011.jpg
  • Workman in a hi-viz tabard bends down in front of the window screen for a forthcoming The Toy Store shop in Oxford Street, central London.
    oxfordSt_colour01-15-09-2015.jpg
  • A woman picks up a dropped item from the pavement, in front of cafe tables and construction site stripes.
    street_stripes03-10-10-2013.jpg
  • Businessmen beneath the statue of Victorian philanthropist, entrepreneur and banker George Peabody (1795 to 1869) at Cornhill in the City of London.
    city_people24-02-11-2015.jpg
  • Construction worker and temporary works site landscape in Paddington, central London.
    construction_landscape02-03-03-2014.jpg
  • While holding a conversation on his smartphone, a stooping gent struggles to slide a free copy of the Evening Standard newspaper into his briefcase, beneath the high walls of the Bank of England in the City of London.
    bank_people02-09-02-2015.jpg
  • While holding a conversation on his smartphone, a stooping gent struggles to slide a free copy of the Evening Standard newspaper into his briefcase, beneath the high walls of the Bank of England in the City of London.
    bank_people01-09-02-2015.jpg
  • Man with a red hat and scarf stoops to access a small case in a central London street.
    pickup_man01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • A businessman stops to tie a loose shoelace on Lombard Street in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-40-04-09-2019.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
a Londoner catches a frisbee while social distancing in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-03-26-05-2020.jpg
  • Pedestrians avoid a noodle and sauce takeaway, dropped and discarded on the pavement during lunch-hour in the capital's financial district, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England.
    pavement_noodles-55-04-02-2020.jpg
  • A man stoops to tie his shoelace at Liverpool Street Station in the City of London, the capital's financial district aka the Square Mile, on 15th May 2018, in London, UK.
    shoe_lace-01-15-05-2018.jpg
  • A local authority street cleaner scrapes gum from pavements and passageways of the Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-283-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A person stops to pick up an object in a shaft of sunlight, on 7th February 2018, in London, England.
    light_shaft-01-07-02-2018.jpg
  • A lady changes shoes beneath the WW1 memorial at Royal Exchange, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-53-19-04-2017.jpg
  • Woman picks-up dropped item in front of small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. Part of a sequence of 4 images showing the woman in red dropping the Oyster card and subsequently bending down and picking it up.
    romanelli_statue19-28-10-2011.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
    esa_guiana02113-08-2007.jpg
  • Ducking under the falling spray from a giant wave, a passer-by experience the force of nature from a storm off the coasts of southern England - here at the Port of Dover, Kent. As the water hits the sea defence wall, the seaside town is battered by southerly winds that bring with them huge breakers across the promenade. Adventurous and foolhardy people brave these conditions and stay for as long as possible at the railings then jump out at the last moment before getting doused in salt spray. This man carries on walking and thinks that by bending down, the sea will pass overhead.
    seaside_storm-21-10-1989.jpg
  • Woman bends down to tie a shoelace beneath a fashion poster showing a fashion couple and St Paul's Cathedral.
    city_people11-08-10-2013.jpg
  • Workman in a hi-viz tabard bends down in front of the window screen for a forthcoming The Toy Store shop in Oxford Street, central London.
    oxfordSt_colour02-15-09-2015.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
  • 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
  • A man picks-up a dropped item as Storm Georgina sweeps across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-04-24-01-2018.jpg
  • A lady stoops to fetch something from her bag at a temporary construction hoarding beneath the partially hidden statue of Eros, the world famous London Victorian-era landmark, Eros in Piccadilly Circus, on 25th February 2020, in London, England. Eros, or the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain is located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom. Moved after World War II from its original position in the centre, it was erected in 1892–1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury, who was a famous Victorian politician and philanthropist. The monument is surmounted by Alfred Gilbert's winged nude statue generally, though mistakenly, known as Eros. This has been called "London's most famous work of sculpture."
    piccadilly_eros-09-25-02-2020.jpg
  • Pedestrians avoid a noodle and sauce takeaway, dropped and discarded on the pavement during lunch-hour in the capital's financial district, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England.
    pavement_noodles-54-04-02-2020.jpg
  • A businessman stops to tie a loose shoelace on Lombard Street in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-41-04-09-2019.jpg
  • A male pedestrian attends to a loose shoe lace, on 10th April 2019, in Westminster, London, UK
    brexit_protest-03-10-04-2019.jpg
  • An Asian family struggle with a blue boot outside a window display that is part of a design theme called 'State of the Arts', at the Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, on 4th March 2019, in London England. State of the Arts is a gallery of works by nine crtically-acclaimed artists in Selfridges windows to celebrate the power of public art. Each of the artists are involved in creating a site-specific artwork at one of the new Elizabeth line stations as part of the Crossrail Art Programme.
    oxford_street-20-04-03-2019.jpg
  • Bald mannequins in the background with two stooping Asian men passing-by in Bond Street, on 15th December 2016, in London, England.
    window_mannequins-02-15-12-2016.jpg
  • Two ladies use transparent umbrellas during heavy rainfall on an autumn afternoon outside St. Martin-in-the-Fields church on Trafalgar Square, on 24th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    london_rain-11-24-10-2019.jpg
  • A woman stoops near bundles of Evening Standard newspapers in Piccadilly, on 9th November 2017, London, England.
    newspapers_newsprint-01-09-11-2017.jpg
  • A lady shopper stretches to see down a lower-level floor in the northern Italian south Tyrolean city of Bozen-Bolzano.
    bolzano_italy10-11-07-2015.jpg
  • A fallen tree blocks a road in Herne Hill, south London as the worst of the storm winds sweeping southern Britain tears across this public park, blocking the suburban road and bending railings.
    ferndene_storm07-28-10-2013.jpg
  • A fallen tree blocks a road in Herne Hill, south London as the worst of the storm winds sweeping southern Britain tears across this public park, blocking the suburban road and bending railings.
    ferndene_storm08-28-10-2013.jpg
  • A man bends down to adjust his trousers next to the zigzag battens of a construction hoarding at Notting Hill, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
    zigzag_hoarding-04-13-03-2018.jpg
  • A businessman bends over in a public street to sort through personal paperwork.
    bend_over01-14-03-2011.jpg
  • 1980s architecture at the Broadgate City of London development and stooping woman.
    broadgate_architecture01-13-08-2014.jpg
  • A kind stranger picks-up a hat belonging to another pedestrian in front of a construction hoarding - a night time panorama of the Thames south bank, featuring the HQ of the intelligence service (MI6) across the river in Vauxhall.
    river_hoarding02-10-04-2014.jpg
  • An employee clears broken glass from the lower pane of a public phone box in a central London street.
    phone_box02-27-02-2012.jpg
  • A city worker smokes a cigarette as a woman stretches hamstrings after exercise next to an art installation entitled 'One Through Zero (The Ten Numbers)' by American pop artist Robert Indiana (b 1928), in Lime Street, City of London, the capital's Square Mile, and its financial heart. Situated in the capital's Square Mile, its financial heart, are surrounding offices and corporate headquarters from the finance and insurance sector, most notably being the nearby Lloyds of London building. This series of sculptures is composed of 10 brightly painted numerical digits, each made of aluminum and set on its own base. Their construction took place at the former Lippincott Foundry in North Haven, Connecticut from 1980 to 1983
    city_numbers06-09-07-2013.jpg
  • A lady stoops to pick up a dropped item beneath the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 27th February 2019, in London, England.
    vuitton_corner-13-27-02-2019.jpg
  • A man stoops to adjust a shoelace in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    broadwick_street-03-07-03-2019.jpg
  • A man stoops to adjust a shoelace in front of temporary construction hoarding in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    broadwick_street-04-07-03-2019.jpg
  • Tge rear of a man is seen between clothing of a man bending down to listen to his phone that is re-charging at a Duolingo Wi-fi Smart Bench at Elephant & Castle in south London, on 20th January 2021, in London, England.
    wifi_man02-20-01-2021.jpg
  • Woman returns for dropped item near small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. Part of a sequence of 4 images showing the woman in red dropping the Oyster card and subsequently bending down and picking it up.
    romanelli_statue17-28-10-2011.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Tge rear of a man is seen between clothing of a man bending down to listen to his phone that is re-charging at a Duolingo Wi-fi Smart Bench at Elephant & Castle in south London, on 20th January 2021, in London, England.
    wifi_man01-20-01-2021.jpg
  • A building worker grinds steel caging on a construction project site in Milton Keynes, UK. Bending down to ground level, the workman touches his grinder to cut the steel structure into the required size and shape, destined to be covered in reinforced concrete for this generic construction project. Sparks fly up though the worker wears no protection gear against burns from the hot sparks.
    90s_construction-18-05-1994.jpg
  • A curator inspects art canvasses leaning against gallery walls in the Royal Academy (RA) for its 'The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century' exhibition, a collection of important works of art by Italian artists such as Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi. In the privacy of the closed gallery, a lady official from the RA is bending down, resting her hands on knees and scrutinizing for possible damage after their removal from travel packing crates, whilst on the floor before hanging for public view. We see the largest picture on the right (Luca Carlevaris, The Bucintore Departing from S. Marco. 1710) of the Grand Canal in Venice and on the left is 'Domenico Tiepolo, The Institution of the Eucharist, 1753'. Polished wooden parquet flooring is protected by blocks that support the weight of each work of priceless art.
    RB_035-31-05-1994.jpg
  • Woman drops item in front of small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli.  Part of a sequence of 4 images showing the woman in red dropping the Oyster card and subsequently bending down and picking it up.
    romanelli_statue16-28-10-2011.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana_pony02-17-09-1995.jpg
  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana_pony-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A young girl hugs her beloved pony at a gymkhana meeting in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana_pony01-17-09-1995.jpg
  • Two young 1990s girls stand with their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    pony_girls-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    pony_rider-17-09-1999.jpg
  • The legs of two young girls sit astride their beloved ponies at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs, short polished boots and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, the rider nearest the viewer sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana03-17-09-1999.jpg
  • Behind their horsebox, a dedicated mother puts the finishing touches to her daughter's hair at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Wearing regulation jodhpurs, tie and hairnet, the young girl is almost ready to mount her pony and hopefully earn winning rosettes. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana02-17-09-1999.jpg
  • Winning and losing contestants line up to receive their prizes at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The point of focus is a young cheeky-faced girl adorned with a winners' special rosette and she grins cheekily to her friend alongside. Far right another girl less satisfied inspects her own rosette. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana01-17-09-1999.jpg
  • Portrait of a young girl holding her First Prize winning pony at a gymkhana meeting, on 2nd July 1995, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Gymkhana is an Indian Raj term which originally referred to a place where sporting events took place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In the United Kingdom and east coast of the United States, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending
    first_prize_pony-02-07-1995.jpg
  • With the runways and former nuclear silos of RAF Scampton below, Lincolnshire, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team swoop down to their home airfield during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight. Trailing white organic smoke before reforming in front of a local crowd they work through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. They curve round in a similar trajectory as seen on the bending taxi-way. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads, hedgerows and cold war nuclear solios are seen below on a perfect day for aerobatic displaying. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.   .
    Red_Arrows732_RBA.jpg
  • A workman bends down while working on a Christian church on the Walworth Road, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    ladder_workman-01-13-09-2017.jpg
  • An officer bends down to inspect a soldier within a battalion of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment of the British Army, before a parade in front of Queen Elizabeth the Queen at the regiment's Edinburgh base at Redford Barracks, Scotland. The regimented rows and columns form a disciplined line-up of troops. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was an infantry regiment of the British Army until amalgamation into The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. The regiment was created in 1881 as an amalgamation of the 91st and 93rd Regiments of Foot going on to serve in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Aden. It was announced in 2004 as part of the restructuring of the infantry that the Highlanders would be amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into a single seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland.
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  • A stranger bends down to fondle another lady's pet chihuahua while waiting to cross the road, on 21st July, in Porto, Portugal. The poor pooch looks unhappy at being touched by  stranger and tries to twist its head out of the woman's grip. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_porto-69-21-07-2016.jpg
  • A dog owner bends down to pick up his dog's mess in an Autumnal park.
    autumn_park01-28-10-2015.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
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  • Two contestants of the world worm charming competition bend down to use a fork and a recorder to encourage invertebrates out of the ground in a field at Willaston, Cheshire, England. One woman wears a plastic helmet and the other has a worm illustrated t-shirt with a handmade sign that reads"Ive got the worms!" There are 18 rules translated into 30 languages (including Tibetan) but here these two daft ladies use music and garden tools to vibrate the earth helping the worms to the surface in a 3-metre square plot. International flags are behind but local hero Tom Shufflebotham's 1980 world record still stands at 511 worms out of the ground in half an hour. The fattest  worm ever caught weighed 6.6 grams, the most succesful method being hand vibrating a four tyne garden fork inserted approximately 15cms into the turf, known as 'twanging'.
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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • As a businessman finds something in a pocket, a woman inside an EAT cafe bends down to adjust her sandal.
    cafe_window1-27-09-2011.jpg
  • A carer from an elderly peoples' residential home bends down to speak to an old lady who has been taken out for her daily walk in the fresh-air. The lady however cannot walk but seems to be enjoying her daily constitutional from the comfort of her wheelchair that the nursing specialist kindly pushes along a promenade in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. With her hankie tucked in her sleeve she also seems to be slightly confused as if she might be suffering from a dementia or possibly just old and tired from the hardships after Britain at war. By 2050 the percentage of people worldwide over 65 years will have doubled.
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  • A young adventurer bends down to inspect a newly-killed forest pig whilst on a Raleigh International expedition in Brunei, Borneo. The hog is dead and the boy wears only flip-flops and shorts but this is one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet and will have been a life-changing experience for him and his friends from all over the world who will have raised several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
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  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A drummer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders a regiment of the British Army, bends down to adjust a sock during inspection. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was an infantry regiment of the British Army until amalgamation into The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. The regiment was created in 1881 as an amalgamation of the 91st and 93rd Regiments of Foot going on to serve in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Aden. It was announced in 2004 as part of the restructuring of the infantry that the Highlanders would be amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into a single seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland...
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  • A woman in red striped top looks at home next marquees of a similar pattern and colour as he leans against the nude male figure of a garden ornament at the Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Her friend bends down and the statue with a hand on his leg has a smile on his face.
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  • Days after the September 11th 2001 attacks in New York and Washington DC, the US government had identified Osama Bin Laden as the head culprit of the terrorist action on America. Here, a businessman wearing a smart dark suit and polished loafers bends down to buy the latest copy of the New York Daily News from an African American vendor near Wall Street in the heart of New York's financial district. Bin Laden's demonic face is spread across the front page and the words "Wanted: Dead or Alive" tells Americans that their al-Qaeda evil-doer will be caught eventually, like a baddie rounded up by the Sheriff by the last scene of a Hollywood western.  .
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  • A woman bends down to tell a young girl dressed in red seen among older Muslim radicals dressed in black. All are Islamic extremist women protesting opposite the London Libyan embassy demanding Shariah law after the Gaddafi uprising. Holding up their placards that ask for Shariah law for Libya and that Democracy is the path to Hellfire, the young British radicals stand behind barriers near Hyde Park Corner denouncing Colonel Gaddafi and for their views and ideology to become the way of life for the north African country.
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