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  • Reaching hands of ex-South African President Nelson Mandela's statue seemingly grasp Big Ben clock tower in Parliament Square..
    mandela_parliament03-07-03-2011.jpg
  • The reaching hands of ex-South African President Nelson Mandela's statue seemingly grasp the Big Ben clock tower in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London. On the day of the British general election where a hung parliament is a possibility, the fight for power of the nation appears to be an historic possibility.
    mandela_statue02-04-07-2010.jpg
  • The reaching hands of ex-South African President Nelson Mandela's statue seemingly grasp the Big Ben clock tower in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London. On the day of the British general election where a hung parliament is a possibility, the fight for power of the nation appears to be an historic possibility.
    mandela_statue01-04-07-2010.jpg
  • An unseen person's hand reaches from the corner of the picture to offer a chip (French fry) to a hovering seagull at Minehead on the Somerset coast, South-west England. Another younger person has turned around to see what is happening but is also holding up his hand to other birds  none of the others are accepting the free meal. The summer afternoon sky is filled with bird life but clear of clouds and is a deep coastal blue which echoes the reaching shirt sleeve.
    RB-0108.jpg
  • Friends reach out in the busy Coventry Street in London's West End, on 6th February 2018, in London, England.
    piccadilly_circus-07-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A young boy, too short to reach points a Minigun cannon from the top deck of HMS Illustrious over the river Thames at Greenwich, London. During which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier was docked on the river, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day48-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Woman reaches into her bag outside a classy cafe on Piccadilly in central London.
    piccadilly_window01-21-05-2015.jpg
  • A workman up some stepladders reaches in the corner of a window recess in Soho, on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-02-29-04-2019.jpg
  • A visitor to Budapest zoo reaches out with food scraps to a captive elephant, whose enclosure has sharp spikes around its moat, on 13th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
    budapest_elephant-13-06-1990.jpg
  • Woman reaches into her bag outside a classy cafe on Piccadilly in central London.
    piccadilly_window03-21-05-2015.jpg
  • A young boy reaches up to touch a Yoda busker and other passers-by in front the faces from The Taking of Christ (c1602) the painting of the arrest of Jesus, by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio and exhibited at the National Gallery, London.
    caravaggio_people-09-30-09-2016.jpg
  • A mother reaches out to encourage her child to enter the warm, inviting waters of the Herne Hill Lido in south London, England
    lido_summer03-25-08-1995.jpg
  • A driver reaches to insert a pass and access street parking in a restricted area, in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    slovenia-541-28-06-2018.jpg
  • A young boy reaches up to touch a Yoda busker and other passers-by in front the faces from The Taking of Christ (c1602) the painting of the arrest of Jesus, by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio and exhibited at the National Gallery, London.
    caravaggio_people-08-30-09-2016.jpg
  • A driver stands on the rear wheel of his vehicle and reaches to polish its roof, in a central London street, England.
    car_cleaner-01-23-09-2016.jpg
  • Football supporter mates mess around in a London street before going on to watch their team's match elsewhere in the capital. But this man in the green stripes of his team is NOT a pickpocket as might be suggested on first look. He reaches into the unbuttoned pocket of the older-looking man in shorts. But recaptioning this picture to suggest he is a street criminal might be thought libelous, giving this brief moment a misinterpretation and misrepresentation.
    pocket_men1-29-09-2011.jpg
  • "One candle." A family are gathered to celebrate the first birthday of a young child, the back garden of her parent's south London home. The birthday girl reaches out to touch the single lit candle on a chocolate log cake while her grandmother and mother both show her how to blow and extinguish the flame instead. Friends and relatives are sat around the garden on a perfect late-summer afternoon, drinking and laughing on this joyous occasion, a milestone in the first year of any young life. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella24-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Tourist boatman reaches to grab a drifting longboat on the Kourou River in French Guiana.
    esa_guiana12414-08-2007.jpg
  • Passer-by and a City cafe in sunlight on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people28-09-10-2015.jpg
  • Green hydraulic crane stretches up to top floor of building in centralLondon.
    Green_crane01-20-05-2010.jpg
  • A Chinese lady touches a tourism booking office kiosk, opposite the Garrick Theatre currently showing the musical 'Rip It Up', on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
    garrick_theatre-02-29-04-2019.jpg
  • A tourist takes a picture beneath Canada House, in Trafalgar Square, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-06-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A stylish businessman wearing a 3-piece suit strides below the classical architecture of Royal Exchange and the WW1 war memorial at Bank Triangle, on 10th May 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-13-10-05-2017.jpg
  • A busker dressed as Yoda stands in front of the broad message on a hoarding announcing the next major exhibition by Delacroix at the National Gallery in London.
    delacroix_hoarding15-28-01-2016.jpg
  • A team of two hang in mid-air, half-way down their contract cleaning operation to clear dirt and grime from a corporate office building in Spitalfields, London. One man touches the glass with his fingers as they travel back upwards to the top, before progressing along their route.
    window_cleaners02-04-03-2014.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London.
    vacant_offices05-06-01-2014.jpg
  • Home-made cakes compete in a competition at a neighbourhood street party in Herne Hill, south London celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
    jubilee_party23-02-06-2012.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London.
    vacant_offices06-06-01-2014.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London.
    vacant_offices04-06-01-2014.jpg
  • Teenage girl students sit on the sports field during a lunchtime break at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. Giggling and smiling in their happy environment, the young women enjoy life in the UK, the children of skilled parents working in England. The Gyosei independent private school was the first of its type established in the country and shows the importance of Milton Keynes as a focus for Japanese investment..
    japanese_teenagers-18-06-1994.jpg
  • Young lad shows interest in Airfix models incl the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows213_RBA.jpg
  • Children play with Mahjong tiles at a night-club, on 10th August 1994, in Macau, China. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
    macau-10-08-1994_3.jpg
  • Water polo players stretch for the ball in the water during an August heatwave, on 20th August 1995, at Brockwell Lido, Herne Hill, London, England.
    brockwell_lido-20-08-1995_1.jpg
  • Frescoes and tourist taking fresh drinking water fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento.
    trento_italy20-10-07-2015.jpg
  • Frescoes and tourist taking fresh drinking water fountain in Piazza Duomo, Trento.
    trento_italy19-10-07-2015.jpg
  • Workman up a ladder installs lettering for the refurbished Hermes store in London's New Bond Street.
    hermes_hoarding06-16-12-2014.jpg
  • A mother controls pulling away child with reins on Southbank steps.
    child_reins02-15-09-2014.jpg
  • A mother controls pulling away child with reins on Southbank steps.
    child_reins01-15-09-2014.jpg
  • Construction worker and temporary works site landscape in Paddington, central London.
    construction_landscape02-03-03-2014.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London.
    vacant_offices07-06-01-2014.jpg
  • With hands outstretched and a nervous smile on her face, a 3 year-old goes head first down a slide in her local park in south London.
    girl_slide-23-04-1998.jpg
  • Yellow security gate scanners, still in place the day after Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral that required tight security, remains as a backdrop for commuting or waiting Londoners.
    security_gate16-18-04-2013.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
  • Using a system of ropes and cables, a team of window cleaners wipe plate-glass and lower themselves from a City of London office block.
    window_cleaners04-15-02-2013.jpg
  • Using a system of ropes and cables, a team of window cleaners wipe plate-glass and lower themselves from a City of London office block.
    window_cleaners01-15-02-2013.jpg
  • Teenage students play baseball on a summer's day at the Gyosei International Japanese School, a boarding school for Japanese ex-pats opened in 1987 in Willen Park, Milton Keynes, England. Running hard for a home-run, the teenager sprints on short grass as school mates sit waiting for their turn on the lawn. The Gyosei independent private school was the first of its type established in the country and shows the importance of Milton Keynes as a focus for Japanese investment.
    japanese_baseball-18-06-1994.jpg
  • A demolition site in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district. Tearing down a former office block to replace it with a more modern development as seen in a large hoarding at street level, in Queen Victoria Street EC4. The insides of the structure tumble down in a controlled fashion with health and safety issues important.
    demolition_city-12-04-1999.jpg
  • Two construction workers wash after a long shift constructing Hong Kong's new airport at Chep Lap Kok.
    construction_workers01-30-06-1997.jpg
  • Teenage students jump high on basketball court to score a goal at the Japanese School in Milton Keynes, England
    basketball_jump01-26-01-2011.jpg
  • Construction workers and large blue panel in London street.
    blue_construction04-18-01-2011.jpg
  • Volunteer Buddhist on working retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
    buddhist_retreat85-27-06-2010.jpg
  • Volunteer Buddhist on working retreat at the Rivendell Buddhist Retreat Centre, East Sussex, England.
    buddhist_retreat84-27-06-2010.jpg
  • Climbing club and gritstone geology on Long Causeway cliffs, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire...Located in the Peak District National Park in England Stanage Edge is the largest of the gritstone edges that overlook Hathersage in Derbyshire. Stanage Edge at approximately 4 miles in length and 458m at its highest point is the largest of the gritstone cliffs that overlook Hathersage, Derbyshire. The area is one of the most popular locations in the Peak District National Park for climbing and walking with hundreds of rock climbing routes to challenge all ranges of ability. Walkers are drawn to the area to enjoy the varied moorland scenery with stunning views across the surrounding countryside including Hathersage, Castleton and the 'Shivering Mountain', Mam Tor in the west. A walk along the edge is an easy route but the exposed cliff can make conditions difficult throughout the year as it is often battered by wind, rain and regular snowfall in the winter months. There are a number of popular walks including routes along the remains of a Roman Road and towards Redmires Reservoir to the east as well as longer walks such as those including the nearby Longshaw Estate. Sopurce http://www.stanageedge.co.uk
    stanage_edge20-03-06-2010.jpg
  • Leap of Faith from high pole activity test for young boys at YHA Edale.
    leap_of_faith06-02-06-2010.jpg
  • Airline passengers collect trolleys in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
    heathrow_airport484-14-07-2009.jpg
  • "Garden ballet." With hands outstretched, a ten month-old infant supports her weight on some garden chairs as she learns to stand on her own two feet. Without the strength in her legs, she loses her balance and her mother stands behind holding her daughter by the waist preventing her from falling over. It is a warm summer afternoon with both mother and child barefoot on the back garden patio and we see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella18-20-04-1995.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-25-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-21-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-19-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-16-02-07-2020.jpg
  • A gondoliers helps an insteady tourist from his boat, after ride on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
    venice_23-21-07-2015.jpg
  • Pigeon pest controller, Sue Van Vynck releases Harriet, her Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) to scare away the local pigeon population. The ancient sport of Falconry has become today's humane pest control of choice, particularly as costs falls. Once a pigeon population has been scared away, it requires only a token hawk presence to keep it away. Van Vynck Bird Control is a specialist company providing over 25 years, a range of environmental services dealing with nuisance bird management. They are pioneers of specialist techniques such as the use of predatory species (such as falconry) to displace and interrupt behavioural patterns as well as offering a complete range of physical deterrents. Here at Broadgate the nuisance was pigeons and Harriet leaves Sue's gloved hand to patrol the architecture of this 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail space.
    harris_hawk16-07_1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun
    thatchers-16-08-1993.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1533-19-08-2009.jpg
  • Airline passengers grabs his suitcase from the carousel in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport478-14-07-2009.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1532-19-08-2009.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's T5
    heathrow_airport1530-19-08-2009.jpg
  • "First shoes in Wales." An eleven month-old infant tries to walk in her first pair of proper rigid shoes whilst on holiday in Snowdonia, North Wales UK. Tentatively taking a few unconfident steps the young girl  cries out in surprise, almost falling over. Her mother instinctively grabs her coat hood before she topples into into the pebbles and soft mud of a river bed which would soil her clean clothes. We see a mother preventing her daughter from getting dirty and from hurting herself, a fast reaction to stop injury on a small child. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella22-20-04-1995.jpg
  • Plumber Pauline Brown in a flat conversion..Pauline Brown lies across the floor in a converted Hackney council flat bathroom.
    Women_Plumbers003_RBA.jpg
  • A window cleaning contractor wipes glass while abseiling down the side of high-rise apartments at Nine Elms, Battersea, during the second lockdown of the UK's Coronavirus pandemic, when all but essential retailers and businesses remain shut according to the government's restriction rules, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaner02-13-11-2020.jpg
  • A window cleaning contractor wipes glass while abseiling down the side of high-rise apartments at Nine Elms, Battersea, during the second lockdown of the UK's Coronavirus pandemic, when all but essential retailers and businesses remain shut according to the government's restriction rules, on 13th November 2020, in London, England.
    window_cleaner01-13-11-2020.jpg
  • As the UK reacts to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of Lockdown 2 during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, a man walks past male mannequins of a branch of clothing retailer Topshop, on 2nd November 2020, in London, England. From midnight on Thursday, all non-essential shops, bars, restaurants and other small businesses will have to closed, according to government Covid restrictions - and for a minimum of 4 weeks in the run-up to Christmas.
    coronavirus_retail01-02-11-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-26-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-24-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-23-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-22-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-20-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-17-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-18-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of hairdressers 'Feel Soho', is helped by a friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-15-02-07-2020.jpg
  • A mother and child stop to choose nutritious fruit and veg from the shelves outside a shop in Bromley town centre, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England
    swanley_journey-18-03-02-2020.jpg
  • Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, a traditional thatcher lays water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage in afternoon sun, on 16th August 1993, in Suffolk, England. He uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
    thatcher_roof-16-08-1993.jpg
  • In a scene of rectangles, a shop worker balances while adjusting a new window display in a store, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
    shop_woman-02-09-12-2016.jpg
  • Nigerian evangelist, Rev. Benson Idahosa places his hand on the head of a Born-again Christian during a Christian rally at Butlins Bible Week during Easter in 1986 at Minehead, England. Benson Andrew Idahosa (1938 -1998) was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria.
    benson_idahosa-01-06-1989.jpg
  • A young couple beneath the faces from The Taking of Christ (c1602) the painting of the arrest of Jesus, by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio and exhibited at the National Gallery, London.
    caravaggio_people-09-12-09-2016.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, clambers over rocks in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy stumbles over the terrain and continues his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday36-02082008.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, scales a giant boulder in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy has the stamina to get to the top and continue his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday37-02082008.jpg
  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, traditional thatcher lays straw on a barn roof in Suffolk, England. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
    thatching01-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof's slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10-15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers01-16-08-1993.jpg
  • Scaffolding equipment and flower bed during renovation work at a block of flats in the property's garden.
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  • Two window cleaners safely attached to an outside cradle, wash the large panes of glass at a building at Broadgate in the City of London. While stretching with his long sponge into the corner of this window, one worker on the left is wiping soapy liquid onto the grimy glass before cleaning it off with a squeegee. His colleague on the right is communicating with the cradle operator in the building's roof, way above these men, in order to raise the cradle and allowing the men to achieve the correct operating height. Far below them is the capital's Square Mile, London's financial and oldest area. The famous dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen most prominently although it is a grey day across this modern metropolis skyline.
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  • An unrecognisable bather wearing a stripy costume bends over awkwardly to adjust his towel on the promenade pavement (sidewalk) at Minehead, Devon. The man's reddened posterior is pointed towards the viewer and his dachshund (sausage) pet dog stands still looking away to the right, towards unseen interest. A family of four stroll along the sandy beach during low tide. It is a hot afternoon but we only see a quiet scene at this busy resort.
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  • A young girl is groped on the breast by an amorous male acquaintance during a karaoke night in the City of London.
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  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passengers struggling to separate two trolleys in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A General Electric advertisement above a cleaner and pilot near security departure gate at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • "Homo erectus." At the exact moment that a young human being walks for the first time, an eleven month-old girl infant conquers her fear and takes her first tentative upright unaided steps. After months of building lower leg strength by pushing and leaning against household objects, she now leaves the protective hands of a delighted but nervous mother who relishes the joyous moment of her offspring's great achievement. The girl's legs and hips help propel her forward motion, naturally making her an upright bi-pedal species. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • Walking friends cross river boulders single file in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest.
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Parked on the apron at Paris Orly Airport, a lone pilot of the French national airline Air France, leans out of his right-hand seat's cockpit window of his Boeing 777-328/ER aircraft (F-GSQT). It is a bright morning at this international hub for Air France and without help from ground staff, the silver-haired gentleman who may be the captain and commander of the aircraft (because of age and seat position) has decided to get on with the job of cleaning his window himself much like a driver wiping away flies from his car windscreen. Here however, this chore being performed approximately six meters off the ground so safety is vital - just as a clear front view for the flight-deck crew before their flight. Attached to the plane is the mobile walkway, the air bridge, that awaits boarding passengers but no 'ramp agent' is below.  .
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