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  • An airport worker employed by SABTCO guides an arriving Airbus onto its stand at Bahrain International Airport. The man carefully encourages the slow-moving flying machine using his illuminated sticks alerting the pilot in control of this commercial airliner to an exact stopping place after its taxiing from the runway. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. 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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  • Visitors rest on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the forecourt of this famous London landmark, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Visitors rest on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral with the statue of Queen Anne in the forecourt of this famous London landmark, on 16th September 2020, in London, England. The statue is a copy of a 1712 sculpture by Francis Bird in Carrara marble which formerly stood at the same location. Queen Anne was the ruling British monarch when the new St Paul's Cathedral was completed in 1710.
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  • Visitors rest on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the forecourt of this famous London landmark, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    st_pauls04-16-09-2020.jpg
  • Visitors rest on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral with the statue of Queen Anne in the forecourt of this famous London landmark, on 16th September 2020, in London, England. The statue is a copy of a 1712 sculpture by Francis Bird in Carrara marble which formerly stood at the same location. Queen Anne was the ruling British monarch when the new St Paul's Cathedral was completed in 1710.
    st_pauls03-16-09-2020.jpg
  • WW1 Ovillers cemetery, the resting place of allied and commonwealth war dead from the Somme, France.
    WW1_cemetery01-20-08-2003.jpg
  • The church of St Radegonde in Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Built in 1094, the church was a resting place for the Pilgrimage of Saint James of Compostela on the via Turonensis, because the pilgrims crossed the river Gironde at this spot.
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  • The church of St Radegonde in Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Built in 1094, the church was a resting place for the Pilgrimage of Saint James of Compostela on the via Turonensis, because the pilgrims crossed the river Gironde at this spot.
    france_talmont03-29-06-2014.jpg
  • The church of St Radegonde in Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Built in 1094, the church was a resting place for the Pilgrimage of Saint James of Compostela on the via Turonensis, because the pilgrims crossed the river Gironde at this spot.
    france_talmont02-29-06-2014.jpg
  • The church of St Radegonde in Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Built in 1094, the church was a resting place for the Pilgrimage of Saint James of Compostela on the via Turonensis, because the pilgrims crossed the river Gironde at this spot.
    france_talmont07-29-06-2014.jpg
  • The tomb and memorial to Dame Mary Eure in the church of  St. Laurence's Ludlow, on 11th September 2018, in Ludlow, Shropshire, England UK. The inscription reads: "Here lyeth expecting a joyful resurrection the body of Dame Mary Eure, late wife to the Rt Hon. Raiphe Lord Eure, Baron of Malton, Lord President of the principality and Marches of Wales, and Lieutenant of the same. Daughter of S John Dawney of Sessey, in the county of York, Knight, she departed this mortal life 19th March 1612. Aetatis svae 55."
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  • Overgrown tomb and gravestones are covered by ivy undergrowth in Nunhead Cemetery whose deceased occupants were important members of society from the industrial age. On the left is a memorial ('With loving memory of Charlotte Catherine, the beloved wife ..") including an angel figure that leans over at an angle, probably caused by tree roots or perhaps by vandalism during the 50s and 60s when this land was left open for youngsters to commit criminal damage to stonework and carvings. During the cemetery's annual open day, there is an opportunity for the of the cemetery 'Friends' (society) to celebrate and educate Londoners, old and young, to help preserve and conserve this historic site.
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  • Headstones stand in long grass of the cemetery at the Church of St. Lawrence, on 10th July 2020, in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England.
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  • A rear view of two women sitting on a log facing a sinking sun on an Autumn afternoon in south London, on 4th November 2020, in London, England.
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  • Headstones stand in long grass of the cemetery at the Church of St. Lawrence, on 10th July 2020, in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England.
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  • Headstones stand in long grass of the cemetery at the Church of St. Lawrence, on 10th July 2020, in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England.
    suffolk-21-10-07-2020.jpg
  • The body parts of a retail mannequin lying trapped behind railings in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
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  • The body parts of a retail mannequin lying trapped behind railings in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    mannequin_death-05-07-03-2019.jpg
  • The body parts of a retail mannequin lying trapped behind railings in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    mannequin_death-02-07-03-2019.jpg
  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. 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. .
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  • The body parts of a retail mannequin lying trapped behind railings in a West End street, on 7th March 2019, in London, England.
    mannequin_death-03-07-03-2019.jpg
  • Resting road and leaf sweeper reads magazine on his cart during brief break of his morning shift in Dulwich, London.
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  • London 14th November 2015. Soldiers gather before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz. Richard Baker / Alamy Live News
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  • A man has chosen a free surface to spread himself out on during a lunchtime break in the City of London. Having removed his shirt and tie, he sunbathes topless with only his trousers and shoes, the clue as to his day-job in a London office. There is a heat wave in the capital and others are soaking up rays during a working week. Bronzed and asleep, the young man is carefree enough not to worry about his eccentric behaviour in a public place.
    city_sleep-20-06-1993.jpg
  • Volunteers rest between canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London 2012 volunteers are called 'Games Makers', as they are helping to make the Games happen. Up to 70,000 Games Makers take on a wide variety of roles across the venues: from welcoming visitors; to transporting athletes; to helping out behind the scenes in the Technology team to make sure the results get displayed as quickly and accurately as possible. Games Makers come from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds, from across the UK and abroad. The vast majority are giving up at least 10 days to volunteer during the Games.
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  • A homeless person rests in a sleeping bag next to the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • A homeless person rests in a sleeping bag next to the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • A homeless person rests in a sleeping bag next to the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • A group of ramblers rest for lunch at the ancient stones of Kit's Coty, Kent, England. Kitts Coty is the name of the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow on Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent.
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  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery02-05-10-2000.jpg
  • WW2 Madingley American Cemetery is located in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Set in over thirty acres of beautifully maintained gardens and lawns, the cemetery contains the bodies of 3812 war dead from the world war two era. Every State of the Union is represented here. In addition inscribed on the Tablets Of The Missing are the names of over 8000 American service men who lost their lives during the war but whose bodies were never recovered. The majority of those buried here were crew members of British based aircraft, however the bodies of some of those killed in North Africa, Normandy, the North Atlantic and various other places are also buried here.
    maddingly_cemetery01-05-10-2000.jpg
  • A cat watches passers-by in its usual sleeping spot in the window of a materials and fabric business on Lordship Lane in East Dulwich, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England
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  • Families occupy a small hill that has the Orbit artwork tower in the background. during the London 2012 Olympics. Standing 115 metres high, the Orbit is the tallest art structure in Britain - offering views over the Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park and the whole of London. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park73-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Volunteers relax before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London 2012 volunteers are called 'Games Makers', as they are helping to make the Games happen. Up to 70,000 Games Makers take on a wide variety of roles across the venues: from welcoming visitors; to transporting athletes; to helping out behind the scenes in the Technology team to make sure the results get displayed as quickly and accurately as possible. Games Makers come from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds, from across the UK and abroad. The vast majority are giving up at least 10 days to volunteer during the Games.
    canoe_slalom05-29-07-2012.jpg
  • A businessman sits checking his messages on a street metallic bench as pedestrians pass-by.
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  • The WW1 Somme Courcelette cemetery. Courcelette was a major tactical objective in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive of the First World War during which the nearby village was razed. Courcelette is 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Cemetery, signposted in the village, is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track (suitable for cars) from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres.
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  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
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  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery05-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery04-20-08-2003.jpg
  • Set among idyllic fields of corn, the WW1 Somme cemetery of Redan Ridge, Serre Road, near Serre-Les-Puisieux, France - once the location of fierce  first world war battle.
    WW1_cemetery02-20-08-2003.jpg
  • man is lying down on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, to take a nap under a mid-day sun in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
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  • Car workers gather to hear from a union representative during a union meeting during the scheduled rest break in the German BMW-owned Rover production factory in Cowley, Solihull, England. Employees listen to news and  employment terms and conditions. Motor car production has taken place at Cowley near the city of Oxford, England for over ninety years. The car factory is known today as Plant Oxford and is now owned by BMW and has been extensively redeveloped. It remains the largest industrial employer in Oxfordshire employing more than 4,300 people.
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  • Car workers gather to hear from a union representative during a union meeting during the scheduled rest break in the German BMW-owned Rover production factory in Cowley, Solihull, England. Employees listen to news and  employment terms and conditions. Motor car production has taken place at Cowley near the city of Oxford, England for over ninety years. The car factory is known today as Plant Oxford and is now owned by BMW and has been extensively redeveloped. It remains the largest industrial employer in Oxfordshire employing more than 4,300 people.
    range_rover_factory04-20-11-1994.jpg
  • Dutch spectators rest on the grass near giant Olympic rings located on a hill in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park54-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Tourists rest in late summer sunshine at the Grade 1 listed  Victoria Memorial sculpture opposite Buckingham Palace.
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  • Tourists rest in late summer sunshine at the Grade 1 listed  Victoria Memorial sculpture opposite Buckingham Palace.
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  • Walkers rest in the shade at the church of Santa Berbura, founded and built by iron miners in 1490, in the Dolomites near La Val in Alta Badia, south Tyrol, Italy.
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  • A portrait of an executive from the Baltic Exchange holding a framed photo of what the trading institution before it was wrecked by the IRA terrorist bomb nearby in St Mary Axe in the City of London. On 10 April 1992 at 9:20 pm, the façade of the Exchange's offices at 30 St Mary Axe was partially demolished and the rest of the building was extensively damaged in the Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attack. The one-ton bomb was contained in a large white truck and consisted killed three people. Too heavily damaged, a full restoration of the premises was ruled out and the hall was completely razed in 1998. The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts.
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  • Spectators rest in the sun and admire the English garden flowers with the main Olympic stadium and basketball arena in the background during the London 2012 Olympics. London's Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. The planting of 4,000 trees, 300,000 wetland plants and more than 150,000 perennial plants plus  nectar-rich wildflower make for a colourful setting for the Games. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park16-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest outside the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's. Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park99-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest outside the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's. Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park98-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest outside the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's. Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park96-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest outside the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's. Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park91-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest under branded brolleys near the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's..Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park90-02-08-2012.jpg
  • A smoking worker enjoys a rest and cigarette in a designated smoking zone area in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park50-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Families rest before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The slogan 'Inspire a Generation' is written on a London 2012 banner asking Britons to help encourage and influence the next generation of young people into sport, to promote health and confidence in times of economic austerity plus poor health and diet.
    canoe_slalom06-29-07-2012.jpg
  • Families rest before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The slogan 'Inspire a Generation' is written on a London 2012 banner asking Britons to help encourage and influence the next generation of young people into sport, to promote health and confidence in times of economic austerity plus poor health and diet.
    canoe_slalom15-29-07-2012.jpg
  • Families rest before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The slogan 'Inspire a Generation' is written on a London 2012 banner asking Britons to help encourage and influence the next generation of young people into sport, to promote health and confidence in times of economic austerity plus poor health and diet.
    canoe_slalom14-29-07-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest at tables and benches underneath a large welcoming gateway sign in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park08-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest under branded brolleys and the artwork known as The Orbit tower in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Standing 115 metres high, the Orbit is the tallest art structure in Britain - offering views over the Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park and the whole of London. Located in Orbit Circus in the south of the Olympic Park, the Orbit is London's major new visitor destination by the artist Anish Kapoor. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park88-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Spectators rest under branded brolleys and the artwork known as The Orbit tower in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Standing 115 metres high, the Orbit is the tallest art structure in Britain - offering views over the Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park and the whole of London. Located in Orbit Circus in the south of the Olympic Park, the Orbit is London's major new visitor destination by the artist Anish Kapoor. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park87-02-08-2012.jpg
  • A memorial has been placed where a young man called 'Carl.' died in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "He was our North, our south/Our east, our West/Our working week and our Sunday rest/Our Noon, our Midnight, our talk, our song/We thought that love would last forever, we were wrong." From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. We also nowadays lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and cities with simple, haunting remembrances.
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  • A toilet sign sits near the standing Doric columns and tourists at Olympia's Palaestra or wrestling school. Here, training, instruction and bathing took place in the month before the Games. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. 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.
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  • A lone bather wallows lazily in the calm pool waters at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat (formerly the Bel Air Hotel), Alpes Maritimes, France. Basking on his back, the man lies with arms outstretched, the warm buoyant water making him weightless. he has found inner-peace and there is restful tranquility here, where surface-tension allows the bather to unwind completely in this idyllic place on the French Cote d'Azur riviera. Behind his head unoccupied sun loungers are facing the Mediterranean Sea, its clear horizon empty except for a lone yacht that sails along the ocean coast. The colour of both sea and pool are the same on this overcast day that allows us to experience a more muted tone to the scene, also allowing us to see the contiunation of natural waters, as if they run from one to the other.
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  • Leaning against the side wall of the eighteenth-century Stein Inn in the tiny Loch-side hamlet of Stein, Waternish, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, a road-racing bicycle stands beneath a prominent three-letter sign saying 'Inn'. The image is in shadow and therefore monotone, with little colour except for the faint blue that is seen above from a fading sky. The wall is painted white and the word in block capitals is in black. The image is clean and simple without confusing elements or messages. The Inn itself is the oldest on Skye and is one of renowned travel writer's Alastair Sawday's special places to stay and which boasts 99 Malt Whiskies behind the counter.
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  • Memorials have been placed where a young man called 'Marurice' died on the A215 Walworth Road in London, England, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One read: ?Top fella/Don't worry, I'll look after your sisters/May you and your family find true justive so your soul may rest in Peace.? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • A memorial has been placed where murdered school boy Damilola Taylor died at Hordle Promenade, North Peckham Estate, London, UK. Were we to ignore this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: ?May your sweet little soul rest in perfect Peace/?Evil kids has took your life away (but your spirit is always with us).? From a project about makeshift shrines: Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences..
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  • On a busy Summer weekend, families enjoy the old Tarr Steps Clapper Bridge over the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, Devon, England. Crossing on the huge stone prehistoric slabs which weigh up to 5 tons apiece, children play with fishing nets, walk dogs and sit enjoying the view below of others who mess about in a small inflatable dinghy on the flowing stream. Located in a National Nature Reserve about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Withypool and 4 miles (6 km) north west of Dulverton, this spot is a favourite tourist place in South-West England. This typical clapper bridge construction may date to around 1000 BC. It is 180 feet (55 m) long and has 17 spans and designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
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  • As a cyclist pedals his way along a path, a man enjoys late afternoon sunshine in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London England. Seen from a central hill in this Victorian-designed open space, there are the terraced housing and larger tenement buildings behind that rise above the tree line in this undulating landscape. The person on the bicycle has been caught between two tree trunks as he approaches the man relaxing on the park bench and another pedestrian is seen further in the distance walking near a red car. It is scene of serenity among the urban sprawl of a capital city, where quiet places are precious and idyllic corners of greenery are highly-sought after. The Brockwell Hall Park Estate was created and landscaped in 1811. It was purchased for the people of Lambeth & Southwark and opened as a public park in 1892 by Lord Rosebery.
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  • During a time-exposure of a few seconds, the ambient neon and natural evening light of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive are mixed together to give an atmospheric mood of vitality, bustle and excitement in this tropical city. The vertical-aligned name of the famous Colony Hotel is seen through the darkened window of an SUV (4x4). Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality. Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze, blurring during the exposure and making them ghostly against the fading sky of early evening. This is vibrant district of Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed.
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  • Crowds of visitors and locals gather on the terrace of an Ocean Drive cafe in Miami Beach. It is early evening and we see the blurred people moving about over the picture during a time-exposure of a few seconds. The colours of ambient neon lights that these streets are well-known for have become very vivid with bright pinks and reds a main feature of this scene. A menu board listing cocktail drinks prices stands on the sidewalk. Candles have been lit in glass jars on table tops. Ghostly, blurred Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze against the fading sky of early evening. This is a vibrant district of tropical Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed. Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality.
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  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
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  • A fluffy 'Home Sweet Home' embroidered cushion is placed on a pink bedspread at the Roskhill guesthouse, Isle of Skye
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  • Built on rocks once surrounded by sea, Dunvegan Castle is home to Hugh MacLeod, Chief of the ancient clan MacLeod on the north-west corner of the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. Hugh is the 30th encumbent of the McLeods and this has been the clan's traditional stronghold and ancestral home for 800 years which makes it the longest inhabited family home in Scotland. Now a visitor centre and place of pilgrimage for MacLeods from all over the world, it houses medieval artefacts from when Scotland was a wild and warring nation against the English. It has survived clan battles, extremes of feast and famine and profound social, political and economic changes in the Highlands. Originally designed to keep people out, Dunvegan Castle was first opened to the public in 1933. Visitors include Sir Walter Scott, Dr Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Akihito.
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  • 30th Chief of the ancient clan MacLeod, Hugh MacLeod, 34, eats a hasty Saturday breakfast in his private flat at Dunvegan Castle, Maureen Byers on the north-west corner of the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. Dunvegan has been the clan's traditional stronghold and ancestral home for 800 years which makes it the longest inhabited family home in Scotland. Now a visitor centre and place of pilgrimage for MacLeods from all over the world, it houses medieval artefacts from when Scotland was a wild and warring nation against the English. It has survived clan battles, extremes of feast and famine and profound social, political and economic changes in the Highlands. Originally designed to keep people out, Dunvegan Castle was first opened to the public in 1933. Visitors include Sir Walter Scott, Dr Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Akihito.
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  • 30th Chief of the ancient clan MacLeod, Hugh MacLeod, 34, greets tourists and talks to the curator of Dunvegan Castle, Maureen Byers on the north-west corner of the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. Dunvegan has been the clan's traditional stronghold and ancestral home for 800 years which makes it the longest inhabited family home in Scotland. Now a visitor centre and place of pilgrimage for MacLeods from all over the world, it houses medieval artefacts from when Scotland was a wild and warring nation against the English. It has survived clan battles, extremes of feast and famine and profound social, political and economic changes in the Highlands. Originally designed to keep people out, Dunvegan Castle was first opened to the public in 1933. Visitors include Sir Walter Scott, Dr Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Akihito.
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  • Detail of a crucifix in the cemetery of the church of St Radegonde in Talmont-sur-Gironde, Charente-Maritime, France. Built in 1094, the church was a resting place for the Pilgrimage of Saint James of Compostela on the via Turonensis, because the pilgrims crossed the river Gironde at this spot.
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  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
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  • The inscription 'In Memoriam' is written at the base of a statue artwork located in the Victorian cemetery at Nunhead in south London, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
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  • A male visitor sleeps with his head back while sitting in front of Victorian graves and memorials in south London's in south London's Nunhead Cemetery, on 1st march 2020, in London, England. Nunhead is of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London, its 52-acre site near Peckham is the final resting place for many members of Victorian society: From music hall artists, inventors, WW1, and soldiers who survived the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar.
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  • Sreeet sweeper reads a magazine during his morning shift at the Tower of London. .
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  • Tourists kiss and hug below the Grade 1 listed Victoria Memorial sculpture opposite Buckingham Palace.
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  • A makeshift shrine for a dead tourist who loved the Maldives and whose family left a memorial plaque on Naifaru Island.
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  • Early morning regular swimmer swims solitary lengths at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido before crowds arrive
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  • As a smart lady walks past, crowds of tourists walk single-file into the group entrance of the Tower of London.
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  • Early morning regular swimmer swims solitary lengths at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido before crowds arrive
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  • In late evening light, fountain spray drifts across Trafalgar Square  beneath Nelson's Column.
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  • As traffic blurs past, silhouetted pedestrians stand beneath trees and Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square .
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  • A couple walk down the centre of the Mall away from the Victoria Memorial and the Queen's Buckingham Palace in London
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  • Resident Pelicans paddle in waters of St James's Park with Buckingham Palace and Union Jack flags in the background.
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  • Queen Boudicca's (also Boadicea) statue and the 135m high London Eye, seen from the Westminster side of the River Thames.
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  • As workmen clean drains, a passing businessman pauses to photograph the notorious Traitors Gate at the Tower of London
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  • Two visitors pay their respects at the second world war bronze Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge, Scotland
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  • A man sleeps in mid-afternoon sunshine on the steps of Royal Exchange opposite the Bank of England in the City of London, taking a nap in the heart of the capital's financial district. A red double-decker Routemaster bus has stopped in a queue of traffic opposite with an advert for London buses saying 'We've got to get this city to work' but with tattoos on his arms and his forehead and wearing heavy army-style boots, he is clearly not on his way to a job and therefore out-of-place in this busy part of London. With arms folded and head resting on an unseasonal coat, the man is asleep and going nowhere.
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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. After being in line under the sun for some time, two young women rest in morning heat outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
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  • "Anywhere between 3-5am." A mother has brought her three and a half month-old infant into bed and comforts her new baby back to sleep in bed by holding her hand at dawn, after a broken night's rest. We see large adult's fingers encircling the tiny digits of the baby girl who is mercifully sound asleep again, instinctively aware of love and trust. It is a picture of protective parenthood, of a close bond between mother and child in a safe, cosy, warm and idyllic place within the loving family home. 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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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A lady shopper rests and waits with her yellow shopping bags outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A lady shopper rests and waits with her yellow shopping bags outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to "shop with confidence" and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A lady shopper rests and waits with her yellow shopping bags outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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