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  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
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  • Serving Royal Military Policeman pays respects to fallen soldiers, killed during recent conflicts, seen during Remembrance weekend at Westminster Abbey, London.The Royal Military Police (RMP) are the Army's specialists in Investigations and Policing and are responsible for policing the military community worldwide.
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  • Two serving soldiers in civilian suits but wearing the insignia and badges of the Royal Military Police (RMP), talk quietly together while poignantly paying their respects to the hundreds of markers that symbolise war dead. Crosses and poppies mark anonymous fallen British soldiers and other servicemen and women, all killed during recent conflicts. Dedications from loved-ones or simply well-wishers are written on the wooden crosses on the weekend that Britain commemorates those killed on active service in trouble spots and war locations around the world, the markers a laid on the grass of Westminster Abbey's lawns on Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Armistice weekend is largely held on the closest Sunday to the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, when hostilities famously ended in on 11th November 1918...
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
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  • Metropolitan Policeman wearing poppy and army medals on Remembrance Sunday
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  • At a beauty talent contest, the finalists line up to await the judges decision. The girls are dressed in all their finery with dresses, pinned up hair and sashes as they're seated in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential. One young lady however, sees fit to poke her tongue out at the viewer in a cheeky display of humour and character. Her rivals seem oblivious and unaware of her irreverence but perhaps the judge is watching and her chances of winning are now impossible!
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin portrait of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
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  • A Union jack tie and political pin detail of UKIP (UK Independence Party) member from Ayelsbury Vale District council, Cllr Chris Adams.
    ukip_members03-20-09-2013.jpg
  • Four energetic party goers are dressed up as eccentric 70s punks at a Halloween event in Adrenaline Village, Battersea, London UK. Taken from below them with flash the group is in a dark club environment, their make-up is authentic-looking complete with hair gel and mascara.  They wear tights and a girl on the left has safety pins while being licked on the neck by a man. Another is wearing a Union Jack sleeveless T-shirt while one person is looking directly at the camera. They might look authentic but it has been 20 years since Punk was the huge youth culture of the day.
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  • Garment production order form and pins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready a model before the couturier Margaret Howell's Fashion Week show in the company's retail flagship and design studio at 34 Wigmore Street, Central London England. The young beauty has her lips dabbed with tissue to stop her lipstick from smudging. The hairdresser pins her braided hair in a whirl on her head and in the background, other freelance stylists busy themselves in the frantically busy room to get the show on the road. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
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  • An elderly UKIP (UK Independence Party) member sucks on a pipe outside the party conference in Westminster, central London.
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  • A lady walks away with an open wallet after taking cash from her local London branch of the Abbey National Building Society
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Make-up and hair stylists ready models at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio
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  • Detail showing the fine stiching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
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  • Fine cloth cutting with scissors using a template pattern in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
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  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
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  • Makeshift scarecrow stands pinned against a tree in a garden belonging to crofter Angus McHattie, Waterloo, Isle of Skye.
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  • With his body in shade and only his head in the sun, a Portuguese man stands in the street of central Lisbon to read the headlines of national and provincial newspapers which are pinned by their top right corners for passers-by to glance at or buy. Lit by early morning sun, the daily or weekly periodicals are set in a neat row for the benefit of this man and other citizens of the Portuguese capital. Ornate square tile mosaics are set in the pavement (sidewalk) in a design style that Lisbon is well-known for. In an age of mass-communications, reading one's media on paper in such a manner already seems old fashioned.
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  • Holidaymakers are seated in deckchairs on the North Pier at Blackpool, England. As a man in the back row drinks deeply from a can and a lady next to him looks intently at life to the right, a more eccentric woman sleeps with a lacy handkerchief stretched across her face, pinned inside her sunglasses. Looking very English with embroidered or printed pattern of flowers. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. Blackpool is the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
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  • An English gentleman of excellent breeding eats junk food - seemingly a Mathesons 'Smokey Joe's' hotdog. Sporting a pencil moustache he eats the fast-food at an event in southern England. He appears to have kept the discipline from his army days - a smart jacket and tie with regimental tie pin plus well-groomed hair greased with Brylcream to keep it in place.
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  • An elderly homeless man walks slowly past a Barclays Bank cash dispenser at which business people are either queueing or typing in their PIN numbers from cash accounts, or simply passing-by. One middle-aged gent stands eyeing the poor man suspiciously while other men of wealth, prospects and prosperity are tall and stand erect in smart suits and polished shoes, the homeless man is hunched and dishevelled, carrying a supermarket bag - perhaps containing all of his worldly goods. It is a tragic scene of extremes between the haves and the have-nots; the rich and poor; between people with hope and those in despair. This is the City of London, near Fenchurch Street Station where the UK's insurance companies are based and it is impossible to know if any of these men in smart clothes are the same age as the poor man.
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  • An officer from the Atlanta Police Department puts his boot on a man's chest who is lying still in the gutter on the street. He and another person have been fighting in the downtown area and the officer has arrived in his patrol car after reports that a street brawl needed his interception. The officer's belt with a gun secured in its holster  can be seen from a low ground level angle. It is a desolate and sinister place and the lights from a passing car and the green fluorescent glow from a parking lot (car park) is in the background. The police officer needs to calm the violent situation, pacifying the two men before the matter gets out of hand and preventing him from causing more trouble, he places his weight on the thorax to pin the male on the ground.
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  • An American Airlines male flight attendant stands with his crew baggage against a window at Dallas Fort Worth airport, Texas. Dressed in the corporate airline uniform he stands erect with a hand in his pocket, his ID badge clipped to his jacket and a pin conveying his command of the Japanese language. A mesh screen partially obscures drab concrete buildings outside which can be seen through the glass. Dallas Fort Worth is the sixth busiest airport in the world transporting 59,064,360 passengers in 2005. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
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  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • A portrait of an aviation enthusiast with boxes of Airfix modelling kits during an airshow at North Weald in Essex, southern England. Holding a silver equipment case in one hand and his camera in another, the eccentric obsessive wears an anorak adorned with collectable badges and pins. Airfix is a UK manufacturer of plastic scale model kits of aircraft and other subjects. In Britain, the name Airfix is synonymous with the hobby, a plastic model of this type is often simply referred to as "an airfix kit" even if made by another manufacturer.
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  • A family of three members covered with aviation and aerospace badges and knitted-plane jumpers during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. Eccentric and obsessive, the family members look odd and ill-at-ease with their matching jumbers and adorned with dozens of collectable badges and pins loved by aviation groupies.
    farnborough11-06-01-2003.jpg
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