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  • A man wearing a suit makes a hamstring stretch on the Southbank, on 21st September 2018, in London England
    southbank_stretch-01-21-09-2018.jpg
  • A man wearing a suit makes a hamstring stretch on the Southbank, on 21st September 2018, in London England
    southbank_stretch-02-21-09-2018.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
  • Seen between the columns of the Bomber Command War memorial in Green Park, two joggers stretch their legs after their run, on 16th March 2017, in London, England.
    bomber_command_memorial-02-16-03-201...jpg
  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido02-08-25-1995.jpg.jpg
  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    RB-0075.jpg
  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high supply demands.
    electricity409-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • It is mid-day on the narrow stretch of river, green lilly pads float on its surface and in unbder a fierce sun overhead, three young men are lazily making their way to the viewer in a rowing boat on the River Thames near the village of Shillingford, England. The young male in the middle is the one rowing and he pulls on one oar to steer around an unseen obstacle in the absolutely calm, clear blue waters of this majestic river whose source rises in deepest Gloucestershire to its industrial estuary in the English Channel 215 miles (346 km) away. But here in Oxfordshire, we see an idyllic scene of adventure and peace on calm rural waters in a beautiful and tranquil setting, on an English midsummer day. 'Three men in  a Boat' published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
    thames_boating02-07-18-2001.jpg
  • From an aerial perspective, we look down on the green algae and a lone rower who is sculling upstream of the River Lea (Also Lee) in east London, England. The words No Fishing have been painted by hand on a old Victorian lock that once served as a navigable route for barges to negotiate this inner-city waterway. With its source in the Chiltern Hills and ending in the River Thames, this stretch of river has seen development from Saxon times through to the building of the 2012 Olympic site at Stratford. Meticulously placing his oars in the water, he parts the organic growth with the slim boat's hull and looks over his shoulder to check his distance and angle as he nears the lock's concrete spans.
    river_oarsman-18-07-1994.jpg
  • A young girl dressed in a red coat and pink socks walks half-way along a bright yellow stretch of corrugated sheet metal that screens off a derelict block of flats in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. The flats' windows are also partly-boarded up in an area that saw serious rioting in 1981.  Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city and is synonymous with social issues, degradation and poverty with some of the most underprivileged families in the UK. Recently many streets in the worst areas have been demolished  including Beatle Ringo Starr's childhood home.
    RB-0026.jpg
  • The outline of electricity cables stretch across a gloomy winter sky in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of L6 pylons that have already crossed many miles of South-West England's countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of Bristol's high supply demands. In the foreground we see the bare boughs and branches of trees creating a Sci-Fi scene of ugly 21st technology versus the beauty of nature. Insatiable appetites for raw power and energy means electricity is now an expensive comodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity050-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high energy supply demands.
    electricity407-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • A young (able-bodied, not disabled) businessman stretches after eating lunch at leadenhall in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 2nd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-16-02-09-2019.jpg
  • A man stretches a stiff leg beneath the columned architecture of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-21-09-04-2019.jpg
  • Outside the offices of BP, a businessman stretches tired leg muscles on 3rd February 2017, in St James's Square, London, England.
    stretching_runner-01-03-02-2017.jpg
  • A lady shopper stretches to see down a lower-level floor in the northern Italian south Tyrolean city of Bozen-Bolzano.
    bolzano_italy10-11-07-2015.jpg
  • A Bulldog stretches beneath his owner in a central London cafe.
    cafe_bulldog01-13-04-2015.jpg
  • A man stretches a stiff leg beneath the columned architecture of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-23-09-04-2019.jpg
  • A man stretches a stiff leg beneath the columned architecture of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-22-09-04-2019.jpg
  • A man stretches in the sunlight window of a City cafe on King William Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people26-09-10-2015.jpg
  • BT workmen attend to repairs or maintenance on a street pavement while a jogger nearby stretches his hamstrings on a railing.
    workmen_jogger03-15-04-2013.jpg
  • A man stretches out his arms while beneath the shadows of tube kites cast on an exterior concrete wall of the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, on 5th August, in London, England.
    summer_southbank-05-05-08-2019.jpg
  • A visitor to the Covent Garden area of the West End, stretches out his arms inside a multi-changing coloured archway off Long Acre, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
    arch_lights-03-22-01-2019.jpg
  • A visitor to the Covent Garden area of the West End, stretches out his arms inside a multi-changing coloured archway off Long Acre, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
    arch_lights-02-22-01-2019.jpg
  • Green hydraulic crane stretches up to top floor of building in centralLondon.
    Green_crane01-20-05-2010.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 34,813, with a further 541 victims in the last 24hrs, the government's pandemic lockdown has eased to another stage and a security guard wearing a face mask stretches in afternoon sunshine, in the foyer of the closed company offices on Tower Bridge in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 1st June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-01-01-06-2020.jpg
  • Seen through a window, a lady stretches to echo an image of a man hanging from bars, outside a Fitness First gym, on 1st September 2016, in south London, England UK.
    city_people-04-01-09-2016.jpg
  • Sunbathers and a stretching youth in Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_cascais-18-12-07-2016.jpg
  • A city worker smokes a cigarette as a woman stretches hamstrings after exercise next to an art installation entitled 'One Through Zero (The Ten Numbers)' by American pop artist Robert Indiana (b 1928), in Lime Street, City of London, the capital's Square Mile, and its financial heart. Situated in the capital's Square Mile, its financial heart, are surrounding offices and corporate headquarters from the finance and insurance sector, most notably being the nearby Lloyds of London building. This series of sculptures is composed of 10 brightly painted numerical digits, each made of aluminum and set on its own base. Their construction took place at the former Lippincott Foundry in North Haven, Connecticut from 1980 to 1983
    city_numbers06-09-07-2013.jpg
  • As a jogger stretches, lunchtime spring crowds enjoy warm weather beneath the pillars at Cornhill Exchange in the City of London.
    city_cornhill11-23-04-2013.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
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity278-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • Insulators discs stopping electricity from jumping to a pylon down to earth stretches between pylons, Botany Marshes, Swanscombe
    electricity418-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity280-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • As evening light fades, bright light from the electricity-hungry Canary Wharf docklands development is supplied by the voltage from electricity cables and supporting struts at an east London sub-station, England. A network of 110 miles of cables have stretched across 542 'L6' pylons across England's Kent countryside, from the coal-fired power station at Dungeness to this location, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of London's high supply demands. Insatiable appetites for energy means electricity is now an expensive commodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
    electricity283-22-01-2008 .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
  • Men exercising abdominals on the seafront in Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_cascais-19-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Men exercising abdominals on the seafront in Cascais, near Lisbon, Portugal.
    portugal_cascais-20-12-07-2016.jpg
  • Three man on the corner of Bevis Marks and St. Mary Axe in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka the Square Mile), on 10th July 2019, in London England.
    city_people-08-10-07-2019.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
  • 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
  • Smoking employees enjoy cigarettes and autumn sunshine <br />
in Leadenhall Street, on 12th September, in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-10-12-09-2016.jpg
  • Smoking employees enjoy cigarettes and autumn sunshine <br />
in Leadenhall Street, on 12th September, in the City of London, UK.
    city_people-11-12-09-2016.jpg
  • Passer-by and a City cafe in sunlight on Abchurch Lane in the City of London, the capital's financial district and oldest quarter.
    city_people27-09-10-2015.jpg
  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London.
    electric_car05-28-03-2014.jpg
  • Cyclist passes a parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London.
    electric_car04-28-03-2014.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
  • With colonial Portuguese architecture in the background, older women and a few men participate in a group exercise on an astroturf-covered sports ground, 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_4.jpg
  • A woman tourist attempts to climb on to the plinth of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-11-10-08-2017.jpg
  • Tourists surrounded by gulls hovering above on London's Southbank, opposite the Weswtminster parliament.
    lomdon_walk24-02-02-2016.jpg
  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London.
    electric_car03-28-03-2014.jpg
  • A parked Smart car recharges electric power at an EDF charging point in central London.
    electric_car02-28-03-2014.jpg
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London.
    people_shadows04-19-12-2013.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
  • 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
  • Young people whose shadows are on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London.
    people_shadows09-19-12-2013.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
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
Londoners take their exercise with shadow boxing and riding bikes while social distancing in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-01-26-05-2020.jpg
  • Archive image - also used in the book 'Risk Wise'.<br />
<br />
Wearing his bathing costume, a young adventurer clambers over rocks in the Gross Enz river in Germany's Black Forest. The lad of 10 crouches to better balance himself, carefully placing his bare feet on the slippery rock's surface as he emerges from the chilly mountain water. It is high summer and we can see the boy backlit by the glare of strong sunlight in the background. The Gross Enz river rises in Enzklosterle in Baden-Württemberg and is an eventual  tributary of the Neckar. 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_holiday24-29072008.jpg
  • Ripples reflected onto shiny surfaces of rocks and pebbles in the River Enz in Germany's Black Forest.
    germany_holiday26-29072008.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
a Londoner catches a frisbee while social distancing in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-03-26-05-2020.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
Londoners take their exercise with shadow boxing and riding bikes while social distancing in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-02-26-05-2020.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
  • Families risk falling in the River Wharfedale while walking over the stepping stones at Augustinian Bolton Priory, North Yorkshire.
    bolton_abbey12-27-09-2015.jpg
  • Families risk falling in the River Wharfedale while walking over the stepping stones at Augustinian Bolton Priory, North Yorkshire.
    bolton_abbey09-27-09-2015.jpg
  • Families risk falling in the River Wharfedale while walking over the stepping stones at Augustinian Bolton Priory, North Yorkshire.
    bolton_abbey08-27-09-2015.jpg
  • Families risk falling in the River Wharfedale while walking over the stepping stones at Augustinian Bolton Priory, North Yorkshire.
    bolton_abbey06-27-09-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men04-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men03-04-03-2015.jpg
  • Leaping fearlessly across the gaps of high walls, teenage boys practice free-jumping over a stairwell in London's South Bank
    free_jumping01-17-02-2008 .jpg
  • Suspect packages found outside premises in Central London force the closure of Holborn streets and evacuation of commuters.
    bomb_scare03-14-10-2010.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team before an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows739_RBA.jpg
  • Facing a setting sun, the near-exhausted rowers of a small 'jolly boat' has almost completed the long Great River Race by pulling their oars along 22 miles of the River Thames. About to row past the battleship HMS Belfast on the right and under Tower Bridge beyond, the four friends negotiate the choppy waters of the capital's river. The Great River Race (also known as 'London's River Marathon') attracts both the true racer and the leisure rower. The course from Richmond to London docklands was inspired by the immense interest generated by a 1987 charity event in which the famous Doggett's Coat & Badge winners from The Company of Watermen & Lightermen rowed its shallop, or passenger barge, from Hampton Court to The Tower of London.
    river_race-23-09-1995.jpg
  • Wearing numbered bibs, four Nepali boys warm-up before an army exercise trial known as the British Fitness Test (BFT) at the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara, Nepal. These boys are among those trying for a highly-valued place in the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment01-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Reaching out to a tower of scaffolding, high above the skyline of North London, a member of a company of abseiling construction scaffold workers make use of circus skills. Suspended with ropes, carabinas and a seat harness normally used by mountaineers, this man is wearing a safety helmet and blue overalls and his dirty gloved hand is about to make contact with yellow iron work as his colleague looks skyward, already tethered to the reinforced structure. A 60s tower block is immediately behind and suburban houses and streets are below. We see a man about to make contact with a place of safety, reaching out to his destination while spread across London's skies. Lit by flash, this picture is confusing because the viewer sees a false sense of size and scale between the iron work and the flats behind.
    acrobatic_scaffolders01.jpg
  • A young boy leaps to catch a tennis ball on summer grass in setting backlit sun in Germany's Black Forest.
    germany_holiday27-29072008.jpg
  • During the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and in the 24hrs when a further 255 deaths occurred, bringing the official covid deaths to 37,048, <br />
a Londoner catches a frisbee while social distancing in Ruskin Park, a public green space in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 26th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Ruskin-04-26-05-2020.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
  • Clearance workmen remove shop fittings in a Soho sidestreet.
    clearance_men06-04-03-2015.jpg
  • The Broadgate Venus by Fernando Botero in Exchange Square, Broadgate, City of London.
    botero_venus01-21-06-1993.jpg
  • The dark outline of an electricity pylon stands over a gloomy winter sky in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
    electricity055-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Two joggers stretch stiff muscles, on 2nd January 2017, in Regent's Canal, central London, England.
    regents_canal-02-02-01-2017.jpg
  • Young men stretch for the ball while playing Beach Volleyball beneath a palm tree, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
    miami_beach-15-05-1996_7.jpg
  • Having completed his urban run through the City of London the capital's financial capital, an office worker stretches against the exterior wall of his place of work, on 13th May, in London, England.
    runner-01-13-05-2019.jpg
  • A runner wearing hi-vis colours stretches after exercising beneath the south main tower of the Victorian-era Tower Bridge on the capital's Butler's Wharf, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-11-13-09-2017.jpg
  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
    RB_090-21-04-1991.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • A lady runner stretches while using her phone in Holland Park, on 28th June 2020, in London, England.
    holland_park-05-28-06-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the fourth week of the UK government's lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, and with 120,067 UK reported cases with 16,060 deaths, a man stretches his leg against a young tree in Ruskin Park, a green space in Lambeth, South London, on 20th April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-12-18-04-2020.jpg
  • A length of construction industry accordion-style Turtle Gates, is stretched across the road infront of plastic barriers, at a site in Tottenham Court Road in central London, on 11th February 2020, in London, England.
    bus_journey-02-11-02-2020.jpg
  • As environmental activists protest about Climate Change during the occupation of City Airport (London's Business Travel hub) in east London, a young man stretches after sitting in the Lotus Position outside the terminal building on the fourth day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 10th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -84-10-10-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the architicture of modern corporate offices, a runner stretches his knee joints and muscles on the first level of a walkway at Broadgate in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 29th July 2019, in London, England.
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  • Having completed his urban run through the City of London the capital's financial capital, an office worker stretches against the exterior wall of his place of work, on 13th May, in London, England.
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  • A runner stretches his joints overlooking the Houses of Parliament across the river Thames in Westminster, on 27th March 2019, in London, England
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  • An aerial view of runners stretching on Fishmongers Hall Wharf in the City of London, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • An aerial view of runners stretching on Fishmongers Hall Wharf in the City of London, on 10th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A runner wearing hi-vis colours stretches after exercising beneath the south main tower of the Victorian-era Tower Bridge on the capital's Butler's Wharf, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
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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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  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
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  • We are looking down from above to office and business workers who are lying down and relaxing in the grass in their lunch break at Finsbury Circus, a circular green park space in the heart of London's financial district, the City of London. Surrounding them is an art instillation of steel sheep that are incongruously grazing among the assorted people, much like they once did when London was a home to livestock en-route to market and other animals used for transport. It is a warm afternoon and in the foreground, a man wearing a dark suit has taken off his polished shoes and is lying his head on his jacket in the warm afternoon, loosening his tight tie and stretching his neck. Elsewhere, a lady is sitting eating a packed lunch with the Sun newspaper and a man a little further behind is in jeans and plimsoll shoes. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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