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  • We are looking upwards into the faces of two surgeons wearing medical masks and surgical gowns as they carry out a wisdom tooth extraction procedure at the famous St. Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in London, England. With eyes focussed on their work, the two health professionals are intently looking into the mouth of their patient who is covered in clean green sheets but remains unseen to the viewer. Strong operating theatre lights shine down on to the patient and we see the men's gloved hands reaching carefully, avoiding infection or bacterial problems like MRSA. Barts is Britain's oldest hospital - founded in 1123 - and boasts a progressive policy of encouraging day-surgery for out-patients allowing patients to return home soon after their minor operations.
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  • We are looking upwards towards three converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. Traffic leaves its light trails between the lens-distorted columns as it passes eastwards towards Bank Triangle, a busy intersection. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source.  With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influencial in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength.
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  • Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. It is early evening as the ambient light fades while artificial illumination becomes the dominant light-source. With such a wide-angle perspective the bank and its architecture looks powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The dark pillars contrasting with the colourful (colorful) light emitted from this established Bank makes for a scene of stability and strength against the pity and tragedy of a past conflict that claimed millions of lives.
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  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
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  • A middle-aged man dressed in a smart dark suit is about to descend underground to Bank tube (subway) station beneath the converging columns of the famous Bank of England and Cornhill Exchange at Bank Triangle in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. The gentleman is on his way home in the afternoon, his commuting exodus to be shared by its daily working population of 311,000. This perspective of suggests a bank and its architecture looking powerful and influential in the UK's economy. The pillars give a sense of establishment, a scene of classic stability and strength.
    bank_triangle02-04-20-1997.jpg
  • Looking upwards towards the back of a number 8 red London bus which passes the pillars of the famous Bank of England building at Cornhill in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. We see the Bank rising as an imposing classical structure. Its columns are converging because of wide-angle lens-distortion, giving us the image of strength, stability and influence in UK economics. The bus is a traditional design called a Routemaster which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes. Its distinctive rounded rear bodywork is easily recognisable as that classic British icon.
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  • Young aviation fan of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, holds up an RAF merchandise brolley during airshow.
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  • A couple of shoppers look skywards to see the progress of the Centre Point tower at the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, on 12th December 2017, in London England.
    london_people-04-12-12-2017.jpg
  • Two assessors inspect damage to buildings after the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. They stand on a junction looking up at buildings whose windows were blown out by the force of this notorious blast that shook London's financial district. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
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  • Looking up at a tall, new building with geometric angles and diagonal lines on new architecture at Southwark SE1, on 7th September 2018, in London, England
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  • Looking up at a tall, new building with geometric angles and diagonal lines on new architecture at Southwark SE1, on 7th September 2018, in London, England
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  • Visitors look up at generic office towers in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district, on 13th May, in London, England.
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  • Spectators lie on the ground or look up to experience the art instillation by French artist Philippe Parreno, an experience of sound and light, in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London.
    tate_modern-01-06-10-2016.jpg
  • Businessmen walk along St. Mary Axe street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 10th May 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-02-10-05-2019.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
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  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death2-06-10-2011.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death1-06-10-2011.jpg
  • Queueing spectators wait to enter the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club during the Wimbledon tennis championships, on 3rd July 2017, in Wimbledon, London, England.
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  • Looking up at the Shard skyscraper and local architecture in Southwark, central London.
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  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death3-06-10-2011.jpg
  • A pet Chihuahua dog looks up to its owner whilest walking along the promenade of Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast.
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  • Woman looks up at an effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London.
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  • Woman looks up at an effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London.
    catholic_jesus11-09-01-2014.jpg
  • Woman looks up at an effigy of Jesus Christ encased in a shrine box outside a Catholic church in Camberwell, south London.
    catholic_jesus01-09-01-2014.jpg
  • Cranes and blue sky on a large construction site at Broadgate development in the City of London. Looking up from a low angle, we see just two clouds in an otherwise blue sky, with four of the project's cranes reaching upwards, the reinforced concrete lift shaft of a new building rising fast and a completed block on the left. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture
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  • Cranes and blue sky on a large construction site at Broadgate development in the City of London. Looking up from a low angle, we see just two clouds in an otherwise blue sky, with four of the project's cranes reaching upwards, the reinforced concrete lift shaft of a new building rising fast and a completed block on the left. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture
    city_cranes02-17-12-2012.jpg
  • RAF fundraisers watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during a private display high above RAF Akrotiri.
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  • Woman shopper at a bus stop with a War Horse poster in central London
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  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
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  • Merchandise trailer belonging to the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team on Weymouth seafront.
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  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
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  • Ground commentator of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team enjoys a brief moment of tea on airshow seafront.
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  • RAF fundraisers watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during a private display high above RAF Akrotiri.
    Red_Arrows137_RBA.jpg
  • RAF fundraisers watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during a private display high above RAF Akrotiri.
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  • A man walks beneath the modern architecture of One Poultry, on 30th October 2017, Queen Victoria Street, City of London, England.
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  • A man awaits a bus beneath a property developer's billboard showing a large aerial image of London skyscrapers in low cloud.
    city_hoarding06-18-05-2015.jpg
  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
    Red_Arrows616_RBA.jpg
  • Elderly couple read Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team merchandise during publicv local airshow display.
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  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
    Red_Arrows185_RBA.jpg
  • RAF fundraisers watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during a private display high above RAF Akrotiri.
    Red_Arrows140_RBA.jpg
  • Arriving for work beneath atrium of an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (5 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 />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • RNLI spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during public airshow.
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  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
    Red_Arrows600_RBA.jpg
  • Spectators watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team displaying high above their heads during a public airshow.
    Red_Arrows523_RBA.jpg
  • Homeward through atrium of an auditing company's 385,000 square foot Norman Foster-designed London headquarters
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  • A businesswoman stands seductively over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. Her black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look see a sexually-dominant situation where the wealthy-looking lady is standing over the man with her strong leg showing in a provocative manner. Wearing a red uniform and ID, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    RB_093-15-04-1993.jpg
  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama).
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  • Looking downwards from a high vantage point on a hillside, we see one mountain-biker leading a second cyclist as they traverse across a sunlit mountainside near the hamlet of Masecha in the parish of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The late afternoon sun is low across the valley and there is a haze that partly obscures and refracts light over the distant landscape. There is snow on the distant mountain peaks but the countryside has the brown look of a snowless winter. Far off villages and hamlets hug the hillsides and golden light floods the scene. The tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.  .
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  • Looking downwards from a high vantage point on a hillside, we see one mountain-biker leading a second cyclist as they traverse across a sunlit mountainside near the hamlet of Masecha in the parish of Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The late afternoon sun is low across the valley and there is a haze that partly obscures and refracts light over the distant landscape. There is snow on the distant mountain peaks but the countryside has the brown look of a snowless winter. Far off villages and hamlets hug the hillsides and golden light floods the scene. The tiny landlocked Principality of Liechtenstein is bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in secrecy.  .
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  • A businessman stands over a Victorian-style shoe-shiner in a corner of Leadenhall Market in the City of London. His black shoe is resting on a small brass plinth for the leather to be buffed up with the help of Kiwi polish and the efficient speed of a good brushing technique with the final stage being a dusting to bring the best reflective shine. Their relationship is that of paying-customer and servant and we look downwards from the perspective of the wealthier man, a superior view that the client feels when paying for such a service. Wearing a red uniform, the shoe-shiner is on bended-knees, his weight resting on a soft, red cushion, protection from the cold, hard pavement while looking down, concentrating on the job in hand.
    shoeshiner-15-04-1993.jpg
  • Pat Marden rreaches up to attend an arch of apples at the East Malling Research, Kent, England that provides science-based plant and food solutions to industry and Government. As a  Horticultural Technician Pat and her colleagues work for this organisation which is the principal UK provider of top-class horticultural research and development for the perennial crops sector. They have for example, genetically fingerprinted all 2300 apples and over 250 pears of the National Fruit Collection and used DNA markers called microsatellites to produce individual profiles for trees. Looking upwards we see Pat balanced on a tapering ladder to reach leaves and branches that form this feature in the laboratory gardens and which has eight similar arches.
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  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • Standing with a recently-killed deer run-over on a nearby highway, members of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see Corbis image 42-18212808) pose by the gutted carcass of their animal in a forest near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. These tough-looking men host visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of escape and evasion instruction. Should they land in enemy territory for example, they will need all the skills learned here to survive possibly weeks in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is of paramount importance. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife. They wear camouflage uniforms, face paint to look vicious, threatening and heartless. .
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  • Looking down from above, we see one lone queuing traveller at Charles de Gaulle, gazes up towards the large Departures board. Fellow-passengers wait by baggage trolleys in a civilised line beneath the information. Charles de Gaulle/Roissy is a hub airport for Air France north of the French capital. The departures information has schedule times, destinations, flight, satellite and gate numbers plus   remarks. Air travellers experience such misery every day and shows of how global air travel has become a routine, mundane and stressful for the everyday airline passenger - a far cry from when commercial flight was purely for the elite. 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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  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
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  • City workers look through corrugates sheeting at damage caused by the IRA Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London. ..Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London two on-lookers stop to crane their necks upwards to view the damage to the tall HSBC building. With both their hands up to shield the sun from their faces, the men stand aghast at the amount of devastation to their working landscape. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. repair costs reached approx £350 million.
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  • A giant eye from a construction site hoarding watches street next to a workman up a ladder on Neal Street, London.
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  • A broken warning construction work figure - one of many up and down both sides of the Tottenham Court Road, warns pedestrians of a change of road layout, from one-way to two-way traffic, on 7th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • A broken warning construction work figure - one of many up and down both sides of the Tottenham Court Road, warns pedestrians of a change of road layout, from one-way to two-way traffic, on 7th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • Crewman looks out of wondow during flight on a Lockheed Martin-built C-130J Hercules airlifter. Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J model sports considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprops with Dowty R391 composite scimitar propellers, digital avionics (including Head-Up Displays (HUDs) for each pilot). During more than 50 years of service the Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. Strategic, automated low-level airdrops keep 60 road transport vehicles and up to 120 supple troops off hostile roads using only three flight crew.
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  • Visitors on the summit of the Lion's Mound overlook a landscape of fields and farming land and looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-21-25-03-2017.jpg
  • A lone, hooded figure stands looking vulnerable while hunched over railings towards the Seine on the Pont des Arts, Paris
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  • From a low vantage point looking upwards, the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building in the City of London. We see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
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  • First World War memorial soldier beneath the Bank of England (L) and the columns of Royal Exchange. The tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite. Looking upwards towards a memorial that commemorates the dead from the First World War of 1914-18 between the converging pillars of the Cornhill Exchange building and beyond, to the famous Bank of England in the City Of London, the financial district, otherwise known as the Square Mile. The Bank of England (formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. It is wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.
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  • Looking upwards through a gap in some trees, we see in the background the huge skyscraper office tower of the Commerzbank (Europe's tallest building (1997-2005), designed by Sir Norman Foster) and other institutions in the financial district of Frankfurt, Germany. In the foreground is a set of traffic lights with a traffic lane arrow direction sign and during the long time-exposure the red, amber and green lights have registered on the film to say stop, ready, go. There is a light mist settling on the cityscape which can be seen around the intense of the street lighting giving the scene a futuristic atmosphere like the Blade Runner movie. Apart from the prime colours (colors) emitted by the traffic lights, the image has an otherwise green hue including the tree foliage which is illuminated by the artificial lamps. The leaves are also blurring because of a faint breeze which registers during a long time-exposure.
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  • A fire rescue boar passes forensic investigators and police officers looking over the wreckage of The Marchioness pleasure boat, on 20th August 1998, river Thames in London, England. The Marchioness disaster resulted in a fatal collision between two vessels on the River Thames in London on 20 August 1989, which resulted in the drowning of 51 people. The pleasure steamer Marchioness sank after being pushed under by the dredger Bowbelle, late at night close to Cannon Street Railway Bridge.
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  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Wide cityscape of skyscrapers looking across Broadway to the modern WTC center in Manhattan, New York City.
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  • A tour group organised by WalkLondon stop by a sphinx to hear about the ancient Egyptian obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, on the Embankment WC2. Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux-Egyptian sphinxes cast from bronze that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). These Sphinxes appear to be looking at the Needle rather than guarding it. This is due to the Sphinxes' improper or backwards installation.
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  • A tour group organised by WalkLondon stop by a sphinx to hear about the ancient Egyptian obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, on the Embankment WC2. Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux-Egyptian sphinxes cast from bronze that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). These Sphinxes appear to be looking at the Needle rather than guarding it. This is due to the Sphinxes' improper or backwards installation.
    walk_london_tour02-27-01-2013.jpg
  • Visitors on the summit of the Lion's Mound overlook a landscape of fields and farming land and looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-24-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London two on-lookers stop to crane their necks upwards to view the damage to the tall HSBC building. With both their hands up to shield the sun from their faces, the men stand aghast at the amount of devastation to their working landscape. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. repair costs reached approx £350 million.
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  • A poster of a couple who have finished running the London Marathon, is held up by a family member in the Mall, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A rather rotund man wearing a flat cap, a checked shirt under braces that keep his ample trousers up above his fat tummy, affectionately tickled his pet dog, a Whippet ,who stands still with two paws on his master's large leg. It is a bright day on the beach at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Bathers are running on the sand in the background and the man and his dog are content to watch the world go by from their promenade bench. Their is a great deal of trust and love these two have for each other - the gentleman having brought his dog on holiday to the seaside with him, rather than leave him with friends or in kennels. The dog is healthy, lithe and obviously has great speed in those muscular legs, vastly different to the man, whose frame is heavy and slow.
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  • A young Nepali man peers out from a curtain to talk to an unseen neighbour in a remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal. It is a colourful (colorful) scene as the curtain fabric is a striking blue with mauve leaf motifs drawn in but it is a natural opposite colour against the badly-painted yellow wooden walls of his shack. 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. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller.
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  • 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.
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  • With his body in shade and only his head in the sun, a Portuguese man stands in the street of central Lisbon to read the headlines of national and provincial newspapers which are pinned by their top right corners for passers-by to glance at or buy. Lit by early morning sun, the daily or weekly periodicals are set in a neat row for the benefit of this man and other citizens of the Portuguese capital. Ornate square tile mosaics are set in the pavement (sidewalk) in a design style that Lisbon is well-known for. In an age of mass-communications, reading one's media on paper in such a manner already seems old fashioned.
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  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britain's air defence history which flew over central London, two members of the public gain extra height on Santander rental bikes, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • A missing panel in a street directions sign, frames a businessman on his phone, beneath the Monument where the Great Fire of London of 1666 is commemorated, in the City of London.
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  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest14-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest20-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest11-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest10-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest07-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest03-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
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  • Filmmaker and photographer Sam Baker, aged 18 on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
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  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest27-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest21-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest17-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest12-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Londoners watch in awe as 6 Greenpeace climbers protesting against Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, scale the London skyscraper landmark known as The Shard in the capital. Completed in May 2012. The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union. The 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall, it is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_protest28-11-07-2013.jpg
  • Local estate residents look up at smoke damage aftermath on the exterior of a flat fire in one of the two Wendover blocks on Alsace Road in the Aylesbury Estate, Southwark SE17, on 24th September 2018, in London, England. Part of a split level flat on the fourth and fifth floor of the 15-storey block was damaged. One woman and two children left the property before the Brigade arrived. They were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by London Ambulance Service crews and taken too hospital. Another man was also treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
    aylesbury_estate-04-24-09-2018.jpg
  • Local estate residents look up at smoke damage aftermath on the exterior of a flat fire in one of the two Wendover blocks on Alsace Road in the Aylesbury Estate, Southwark SE17, on 24th September 2018, in London, England. Part of a split level flat on the fourth and fifth floor of the 15-storey block was damaged. One woman and two children left the property before the Brigade arrived. They were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by London Ambulance Service crews and taken too hospital. Another man was also treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
    aylesbury_estate-06-24-09-2018.jpg
  • Local estate residents look up at smoke damage aftermath on the exterior of a flat fire in one of the two Wendover blocks on Alsace Road in the Aylesbury Estate, Southwark SE17, on 24th September 2018, in London, England. Part of a split level flat on the fourth and fifth floor of the 15-storey block was damaged. One woman and two children left the property before the Brigade arrived. They were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by London Ambulance Service crews and taken too hospital. Another man was also treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
    aylesbury_estate-05-24-09-2018.jpg
  • Good-looking trendy young people spill out of a pub one sunny afternoon in fashionable Notting Hill in West London. Their confidence and sense of fun and living for the moment is seen in their clothes and style. But out-of-sight around the corner on this street stands a rather nervous-looking poor woman, an elderly lady perhaps in her sixties who is holding some shopping bags with her coat buttoned up, despite being warm outside. Her demeanour is that of tiredness and hardship - the opposite of the young generation. There is a wide generation gap here: The division of wealth, health and outlook between these two demographic groups which also symbolises a modern Britain, used to the class system that is alive and well.
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