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  • Workmen from Southwark Council clear away piles of street rubbish (garbage) left below a Stella Artois alcohol billboard.
    street_rubbish3-10-10-2011.jpg
  • Keep Clear for fire access markings on cobbles outside residential buildings in a north London side street.
    keep_clear01-01-04-2015.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
  • 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
  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-21-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-19-18-06-2018.jpg
  • There is golden light across this narrow stretch of river, yellow flowers are on the bank and in late golden sunlight, two boys paddle upstream in their Indian canoe on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. Lazily they plunge their paddles into the 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, it is an idyllic scene of innocent childhood on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English summer afternoon. The boys don't appear to be wearing life vests nor safety equipment but propel their craft forwards against the current with confidence.
    thames_boating01-07-18-2001.jpg
  • An out of focus post with a light bulb attached, shines in the bright daylight with the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Cocoa beach is on Florida's so-called Space Coast, a resort of beaches, clubs, seafood restaurants and motels that came to life during the 1960s due to America's space program. NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located approximately 15 miles away. The Atlantic Ocean is flat calm in settled weather and the horizon is clear and well-defined with a ship just visible on the right side. Focus is on the sea rather than the post and the light bulb which look like a surreal addition to the landscape. Cocoa Beach served as a playground for many of the astronauts and NASA space industry workers and contractors during the heyday of the space race. After manned space flights, the town held astronaut parades. Before there was a "Silicon Valley," Cocoa Beach and other surrounding towns were full of the best and brightest technical minds around.
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  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
    paignton_diver01-21-07-993.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader John Green is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see John Green carrying his flight bag and life-vest over his shoulder. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
    Red_Arrows093_RBA.jpg
  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka..
    maldives170-13-11-2007.jpg
  • Clear mountain waters of the Savica river at Ucanc near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
    slovenia-127-19-06-2018.jpg
  • Clear mountain waters of the Savica river at Ucanc near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
    slovenia-126-19-06-2018.jpg
  • Clear mountain waters of the Savica river at Ucanc near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
    slovenia-124-19-06-2018.jpg
  • Clear mountain waters of the Savica river at Ucanc near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
    slovenia-125-19-06-2018.jpg
  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-20-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-18-18-06-2018.jpg
  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-17-18-06-2018.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
  • Beneath a huge banner that hangs from the exterior wall of the Ikea store in Croydon, South London adults await their partners to emerge from their shopping expeditions by the childrens' playground where a climbing frame and wood-chip surface protects young bodies from injury. The poster's message is simple and clear: That their customers and especially children, are our most important assets - our responsibility to protect their safety and well-being. Strong corporate Ikea colours are dominant, their well-known yellow and blue are known throughout Europe as well as the added banner in red. The fonts are in block capitals and possibly easy for young readers too to understand.
    ikea_people08-21-1999.jpg
  • Behind railings that honoured American aviator Wilbur Wright at the annual Le Mans air show, France, seven spectators gaze upwards to a clear sky where a lone but unseen aircraft performs in front of the French crowd. Wright made 110 flights at Le Mans and nearby Auvours in 1908 and his legacy for French and global aerospace lives on at events like this where a replica of his Wright Flyer was also exhibited. It is a bright summer's day and the blue sky has vapour trails left by a previous display pilot's jet engine. A prominent British Union Jack flutters on a pole and the words 'invites' (for invited guests only) are printed on to sheets of paper. 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_corbis27-20-07-1998.jpg
  • An aerial view of an unidentified island community seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, a few miles to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding an island of white coral beach sand, a harbour, holiday apartments and importantly coastal defence barriers that may defend against rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka..
    maldives167-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka..
    maldives172-13-11-2007.jpg
  • In afternoon sunshine, autumn leaves and far away mountains with light cloud on their peaks are viewed from across a clear valley landscape, seen from the roadside near Levidi in Arcadia, between Tripolis and Argos on the Peloponnese region of south-western Greece. At 850m above sea level, pine forests and the slopes of the Mainalo mountains (a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south (southwest of Tripolis to NE of Vytina), surrounds the town which lies to the west. The valley contains potato agriculture and mixed farming and extends up to near Kandila. The athlete called Androsthenes was from Maenalus, won gold at the ancient Olympics in 420 and 416 BC.
    greek_olympiad007-21-10_2003.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
  • Double-yellow lines painted over lettering stating a clearway to a local business.
    clear_kerb02-05-11-2015.jpg
  • Double-yellow lines painted over lettering stating a clearway to a local business.
    clear_kerb01-05-11-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men14-04-03-2015.jpg
  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-03-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-04-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-07-10-08-2018.jpg
  • The leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth.
    cleared_leaves04-03-11-2015.jpg
  • Springer spaniel sits on leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth.
    cleared_leaves03-03-11-2015.jpg
  • Springer spaniel sits on leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth.
    cleared_leaves02-03-11-2015.jpg
  • Springer spaniel sits on leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth.
    cleared_leaves01-03-11-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men09-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men04-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men03-04-03-2015.jpg
  • A jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-06-10-08-2018.jpg
  • The leaves dropped from overhead ash trees have been blown off football pitch lines by council workers in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth.
    cleared_leaves06-03-11-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men08-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men06-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Removed graffiti and 'Post No Bills' stencil on cleaned white wall in central London street.
    no_bills01-23-10-2012.jpg
  • Aerial view of a council workman blows dead autumn leaves from a public park in central London.
    leave_worker01-27-02-2012.jpg
  • Suspect packages found outside premises in Central London force the closure of Holborn streets and evacuation of commuters.
    bomb_scare05-14-10-2010.jpg
  • Suspect packages found outside premises in Central London force the closure of Holborn streets and evacuation of commuters.
    bomb_scare04-14-10-2010.jpg
  • Removed graffiti and 'Post No Bills' stencil on cleaned white wall in central London street.
    no_bills02-23-10-2012.jpg
  • Suspect packages found outside premises in Central London force the closure of Holborn streets and evacuation of commuters.
    bomb_scare06-14-10-2010.jpg
  • Suspect packages found outside premises in Central London force the closure of Holborn streets and evacuation of commuters.
    bomb_scare03-14-10-2010.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops05-19-07-2020.jpg
  • With the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. Tape has been stretched across seating on a London bus to stop their use, while being passengers are being asked to wear face coverings and to stay apart which in line with government requirements for all users of public trransport starting next Monday (15th June), on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_bus-01-11-06-2020.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-10-24-10-2019.jpg
  • A family look at the view of the Savica river at Ucanc from a wooden bridge near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia
    slovenia-122-19-06-2018.jpg
  • Bathers swim in the natural waters of the River Orbieu flowing through rocky gorge, on 24th May, 2017, in Ribaute, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    rebaute_france-04-24-05-2017.jpg
  • As if separated by many decades, we see an older generation beach guard from a bygone era and a much younger lifeguard, both resting on the seafront of the posh Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, England. If simply comparing the colour schemes of the past, to the modern day, we might guess that in the gentleman on the right's day, people wore more formal blues, with collar and tie and polished shoes on the hottest day - reminiscent of Victorian times when pomp and tradition rather than practicalities were important . Nowadays, complimentary reds and yellows adorn the uniform of the lad trained in water injuries and life-saving. He is barefoot and sits comfortably against the sea defence wall in peak cap and t-shirt. This is a scene describing the generation gap, of youth versus experience - the classic English seaside holiday.
    frinton_lifeguards-26-06-1992.jpg
  • Gazing out of the window at an inner-city landscape from of a commuter train between Denmark Hill and Victoria, South London
    tube_strike_commuters01-04-09-2007.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is next to the walls of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    city_people09-06-08-2020.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is next to the walls of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    city_people10-06-08-2020.jpg
  • Silhouetted against evening skies, a figure performs trapeze acrobatics in Ruskin Park in Lambeth, on 29th July 2020, in London, England. TLCC Trapeze School comes to Ruskin Park each summer although during the Coronavirus pandemic, they have had to delay their presence in this south London Park.
    fujix100v_test03-28-07-2020.jpg
  • A detail of old advertising for a cigarette brand from decades ago called Will's whose product was 'Goldflake', on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. W.D. & H.O. Wills was founded in 1786 and was the first UK company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco along with John Player & Sons.
    whitstable_shops06-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_bus-03-23-06-2020.jpg
  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_bus-01-23-06-2020.jpg
  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_bus-02-23-06-2020.jpg
  • With the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. Tape has been stretched across seating on a London bus to stop their use, while being passengers are being asked to wear face coverings and to stay apart which in line with government requirements for all users of public trransport starting next Monday (15th June), on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_bus-03-11-06-2020.jpg
  • With the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. Tape has been stretched across seating on a London bus to stop their use, while being passengers are being asked to wear face coverings and to stay apart which in line with government requirements for all users of public trransport starting next Monday (15th June), on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_bus-02-11-06-2020.jpg
  • Two ladies use transparent umbrellas during heavy rainfall on an autumn afternoon on the Strand, on 24th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    london_rain-12-24-10-2019.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
  • 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-09-24-10-2019.jpg
  • An Agusta-Westland AW-169 helicopter (G-KSSC) of the Kent Air Ambulance approaches the helipad of Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 23rd August 2019, in Camberwell, south London, England.
    air_ambulance-01-23-08-2019.jpg
  • A lady wearing trousers with a dotted pattern crosses the road in the City of London, the capital's ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England.
    city_people-10-14-05-2019.jpg
  • A day after Commons Speaker John Bercow announced his refusal to accept Prime Minster Theresa May's third Brexit Meaningful Vote, a Remainer protests outside the gates of parliament, on 19th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-12-19-03-2019.jpg
  • A family look at the view of the Savica river at Ucanc from a wooden bridge near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia
    slovenia-123-19-06-2018.jpg
  • A woman wearing a red suit crosses the road, on 31st July 2017, in Oxford Street, London, England.
    street_artist-03-31-07-2017.jpg
  • A woman swims in shallow and warm, natural waters of the River Orbieu, on 25th May, 2017, in Ribaute, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    rebaute_france-02-25-05-2017.jpg
  • A woman swims in shallow and warm, natural waters of the River Orbieu, on 25th May, 2017, in Ribaute, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    rebaute_france-01-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Bathers swim in the natural waters of the River Orbieu flowing through rocky gorge, on 24th May, 2017, in Ribaute, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    rebaute_france-02-24-05-2017.jpg
  • A Clearway sign banning vehicles from parking in front of a typical Alpine barn in Leonhard-St Leonardo, a Dolomites village in south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei23-17-07-2015.jpg
  • A Clearway sign banning vehicles from parking in front of a typical Alpine barn in Leonhard-St Leonardo, a Dolomites village in south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei03-16-07-2015.jpg
  • Construction work by McAlpine makes for an incongruous landscape in Vicotria Street, London. Sir Robert McAlpine is a leading UK building and civil engineering company. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defence, chemical, water and mining industries. The company was founded in 1869 by Sir Robert McAlpine, who was known as "Concrete Bob".
    McAlpine01-06-05-2010.jpg
  • The massive IRA bomb in Bishopsgate Street in the heart of the City of London destroyed a substantial number of businesses and disrupted a major part of London's financial hub. In the days after the attack on 24th April 1993, we see the pictorial evacuation of smiling faces in a portrait of Pret a Manger staff, the sandwich and lunch chain (from the French 'Ready to Eat'). The image was hung above the premises and construction workers wearing hard hats transport the picture, like hundreds of other nearby businesses whose workers carried away company property, for temporary safe storage. This store was also badly damaged and had to be transferred to another location. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. It is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning at Poon Hill. Trekkers have gathered at this spot to take in the wonder of this spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. A sherpa has written his name in ice on a rail and western travellers continue their journey higher into the Annapurna range to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning. A traveller has emerged from his rudimentary room on the left of this lodge in Nepal to stand outside staring at the spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. The wind is whipping snow and ice from the peaks of the Annapurna range and trekkers come from all over the world to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
    nepal_travel2412-12_1997.jpg
  • Three silhouetted walkers (two women and one male) near the top of a hill near the village of Churchill, North Somerset, England. The image has only three tones, graduating from dark at the bottom, becoming lighter to the top. It is late in the day and the light is soft and warm in colour and the friends make their way up the gradient in single-file, each striding with legs apart as they climb the hill forming part of the Mendips. It is a scene of tranquillity, the landscape is peaceful and unspoilt for outdoor countryside pursuits like walking, one of the fastest-growing leisure activities in Britain for people who take advantage of rural England.
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0116-01_1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment08-16-01-1997.jpg
  • The last moments of street lighting illuminates the pavement and road as dawn breaks over the shoreline on the untidy and empty seafront in Nea Makri, a coastal town near Athens on the Marathon road. This town is the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC to deliver news of the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of (Marathonas) Marathon. Nowadays, this is a rather unattractive town with few echoes of Greece's ancient glories although the 29th modern Olympic circus came home in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad009-21-10_2003.jpg
  • British Airways' Hand Baggage Allowance sign helping passengers check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • A male security operative uncovers forbidden bottle of Vodka among a passenger's hand baggage during search at Heathrow T5
    heathrow_airport1470-18-08-2009.jpg
  • Spray-painted stake marks a walking path in the Enzwald forest near village of Kälbermühle in Germany's Black Forest
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  • A French Dassault-Breguet Mirage military jet interceptor/fighter stands on a pedestal in the Place de la Concorde, Paris during an aviation display weekend along the Champs Elysées. Passers-by seem oblivious to this celebration of French aviation as they walk through the Parisian square, the scene of public executions during the revolution. The Mirage seems to be climbing off its platform and up into the cloudless summer afternoon sky as a young child sits on top of his father's shoulders and passengers in a city bus seem trapped behind the windows. Its is a scene of incongruous moments, a surreal appearance of frightening military technology amid the calm of a public place. 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. .
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  • Aerial view of a passing boat and one of 1,192 coral  inhabited and deserted islands in the Islamic Republic of Maldives.
    maldives168-13-11-2007.jpg
  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ?biomass? fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
    river_business320-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • Workman feeds yellow plastic tubing through an under pavement shaft to clear blockage beneath round pastry post ad..
    cable_works02-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Workman feeds yellow plastic tubing through an under pavement shaft to clear blockage beneath round pastry post ad..
    cable_works03-19-03-2012.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit25-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit26-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit23-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit30-16-11-2020.jpg
  • Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists dressed in City suits, vomit 'oil' outside the Baltic Exchange, home to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) who, according to environmentalists, are co-sponsoring the IMO's non-reglation, thereby allowing fossil fuel emissions by the shipping industry, on 16th November 2020, in London, England. 'Scrubbers' then appeared to metaphorically clean-up the mess left on the pavement before City of London Police officers arrived to re-open the street during this, the second lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
    XR_oil_vomit29-16-11-2020.jpg
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