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  • Using a bloodied knife and hand, an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course who has butchered road kill deer. Near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State, the man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison that is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
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  • Standing with a bloodied knife and hand is an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) who has butchered a deer near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
    usaf_survival001-06-08-1995_1_1.jpg
  • It is morning in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India and on the streets around the Writers' Building, a busy fruit market is in full swing. Against the wall however, a dying skill is being shown: A man sits with his back to the bustle of the street and is hand-typing letters for those unable to write their own correspondence with his own battered typewriter. Working as a freelance typist, the man transcribes the hand-written words for a customer before the days of home PC or laptop. The Writers' Building (Mahakaran in Bengali) is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in India. The Writers' Building originally served as the office for writers of the British East India Company, hence the name. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1780, it received its impressive Corinthian façade, an example of the Neo-Renaissance style, in 1889.
    kolkata01-18-11-1996.jpg
  • Deep in the West Sussex countryside are a group of Territorial Army soldiers. They have stopped in a remote lane to consult their Ordnance Survey maps during a day of learning to navigate with maps and compasses. Over a weekend learn the skills needed to be part-time army volunteers known as the TA and have far to go. Together they look at maps and argue where they should go next. Looking on with mild amusement is their senior officer who accompanies them to assess their leadership skills and initiative. Behind them a road sign tells them the road ahead is a dead end to traffic. It is a very English summer landscape of lush green vegetation and grasses. The TA work as part of Britain’s reserve land forces. Together with the Regular Army they provide support at home and overseas including Iraq and Afghanistan. .
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  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
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  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
    priddy_fair04-21-08-2013_1.jpg
  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0078_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldier in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's barrack training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071222_india_0525_1.jpg
  • A teenage band of drums, bass and lead guitar perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists. Looking over his shoulder, the bass player checks rhythm with the lead singer  and the drummer looks across his cymbals to ensure the tempo is right. The gig is a regular showcase organiused by their guitar teacher to demonstrate their musical skills as songwriters and musicians.
    guitar_showcase07-23-06-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Working in a dark corner of Desford Brickworks, the factory owned by Hanson Brick in Leicestershire, a labourer pats his clay aggregate into a clod (also known as a clot or warp) a lump of kneaded clay formed into a rough brick shape by hand in preparation for being thrown into the mould (or mold) and shaped once again with a stock. He will then skim off the surplus with the bow - a wire stretched between the ends of a curved wooden rod used for removing excess clay from the mould, which hangs on the wall by a nail. The stage afterwards is the firing in the kiln. Obviously the mechanisation of brick making endangers the careers of skilled craftsmen like this man. <br />
Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone but Clay is the most common material.
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  • Nepalese teenagers stand on one foot during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6897_1.jpg
  • Sanjog Thakuri leads a training session in life skills in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  His teenage students sit on the floor in the class room. The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6853_1.jpg
  • Nepalese teenagers put their hands up to answer a question during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6841_1.jpg
  • Sanjog Thakuri leads a training session in life skills in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6815_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0107_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldiers in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0086_1.jpg
  • Presidential Bodyguard soldier in early morning dust and mist filled horsemanship practice, consisting of jumping, daredevil riding and other such activities at the PBG's training grounds. This a regular activity as it requires the riders to perfect their horse riding skills and maneuvers for their official duties at ceremonial events.  The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
    20071224_india_0029_1.jpg
  • Standing with a recently-killed deer run-over on a nearby highway, members of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see Corbis image 42-18212808) pose by the gutted carcass of their animal in a forest near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. These tough-looking men host visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of escape and evasion instruction. Should they land in enemy territory for example, they will need all the skills learned here to survive possibly weeks in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is of paramount importance. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife. They wear camouflage uniforms, face paint to look vicious, threatening and heartless.
    USAF0206-08_1995_1_1.jpg
  • A young apprentice stop near the top of a city centre chimney during a steeplejack course in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Using an elaborate system of harnesses and pulleys, the young lad is learning the skills to work safely and efficiently at dangerous heights and the town stretches below. Sponsored training is offered through the Steeplejack Industry Training Group Association and CITB-ConstructionSkills for young people aged 16. Applicants for this scheme will have to pass aptitude tests, literary and Maths assessments, and problem solving. Each year, the Steeplejack Industry Training Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills offer 12 places on training courses for trainee steeplejacks and 12 places for trainee Lightning Conductor Engineers.
    steeplejacks02-17-03-1993_1_1.jpg
  • A young couple demonstrate their rock 'n' roll dancing skills in front of a crowd in Myatts Fields park in Camberwell, South London UK. Spinning his partner on the specially-laid flooring, the gentleman is dressed in a double-breasted suit in keeping with the 1950s theme of this fair's celebration of a newly-refurbished park. The lady wears a red dress and holds her arm out to regain balance as she is pulled back towards her dance partner. The seated crowd watch attentively beneath London Plain trees whose foliage gives welcome shade on a warm summer afternoon.
    myatts_fields_fair006-20-06-2009.jpg
  • Nepalese teenagers sit and listen during a life skills training session in Bisaneu Voice of Children centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The session is part of the rehabilitation program run by Voice of Children.  The not-for-profit organisation supports street children and those who are at risk of sexual abuse through educational and vocational training opportunities, health services and psychosocial counseling.
    Nepal-Young-Adult-training-6844_1.jpg
  • Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean against a wing of their Hawk jet in a pre-flight briefing while a member of their ground crew positions some wheel chocks. The highly-skilled engineer is known as a 'Blue' but the 'Reds' discuss  flight plans. Eleven trades skills are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. It is mid-day and only their flying boots and red legs are seen with the RAF roundel emblem is on the underside of the wing. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader John Green is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see John Green carrying his flight bag and life-vest over his shoulder. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
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  • Some of the nine Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform the 5/4 Split high during 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.
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  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during 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 aircraft before 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.
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  • Seen from another aircraft, the Diamond Nine formation of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team is seen over freshly-ploughed English fields and hedgerows (the result of the old agricultural ‘enclosure’ system of land division) the nine aircraft fly in a tight formation approximately 8 feet (2.5m) apart from each other. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective are seen below. 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.
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  • From the rear seat of a 'Red Arrows' Hawk of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Through the explosive Plexiglass canopy, we look towards the Lincolnshire countryside from an altitude of a few thousand feet. This is the view from the leader’s jet during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight. Waiting for the other eight members of the team to re-form as an airborne squadron, they fly 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 aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows572_RBA.jpg
  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives120-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks, and the front all prepared. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • The front of the violin is weighed. The maker keeps very accurate records of the weight of every piece of every violin he makes. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Templates for various violins, cellos and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerT.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerS.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerQ.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerP.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerO.jpg
  • A Cello having it's varnish dried under UV lights. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerN.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerM.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerL.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerK.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerJ.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerI.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerH.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerG.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerF.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerE.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerB.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAC.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAA.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerA.jpg
  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A team of employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth, just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives85-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerX.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerW.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerU.jpg
  • Back of a violin. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerR.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerD.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Clear markings of the grain of this spruce wood. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Rod Ward makes accurate measurements. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAB.jpg
  • A teenage boy of 15 years of age learns the art of reversing a a small trailer on a family farmstead in north Somerset. While steering the small garden mower, he looks behind him to guage the way the front wheels turn against the rear - gaining experience of how opposite locks on their turning circles change the path of two interlinked vehicles. Giving instructions is an older man, the boy's granddad whose experience is passed on after a lifetime of handling the larger tractor in the background near his garage and wood shed.
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  • A shipbuilder wearing a face mask, leans through the incomplete window belonging to the superstructure of a large German ferry at the Polish Gdansk shipyard - once known as the Lenin Shipyard but still the largest of its kind in modern Poland. The grimy and hazardous working conditions make for a dangerous environment in which to work. His overalls are torn from jagged steel edges and his skin is dirty. Here in 1980 the union Solidarity (Solidarnosc) was conceived and was partly responsible for a growing dissent against Communist rule, ultimately contributing towards the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lech Walesa started his political career as an electrical technician here, going on to lead Solidarity and then to become President of a democratic Poland. Today the city of Gdansk is a major industrial city and shipping port.
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  • A Lambeth council contractor repairs park railings by welding uprights. With sparks flaring, fall and bounce off the pavement from his equipment on the ground. The man has been employed by Lambeth council to repair the railings that surround Ruskin Park, a public space in this south London borough. The workman uses Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the U.S.) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases and oxygen to weld and cut metals, respectively.
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  • A man walks down a street practicing the form of juggling called three-ball cascade. Walking past a stall of oranges and apples, the tennis balls are seen in mid-air, having been thrown from one hand, to land in the other. The juggler starts with two balls in one hand and the third ball in the other hand. One ball is thrown from the first hand in an arc to the other hand. Before catching this ball the juggler must throw the ball in the receiving hand, in a similar arc, to the first hand. Because the hands must move up and down when throwing and catching, putting this movement together causes the left hand to move in a counter clockwise motion, and the right hand to move in a clockwise motion.
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  • A teenage boy of 15 years of age learns the art of reversing a small trailer on a family farmstead in north Somerset. While steering the small garden mower, he looks behind him to guage the way the front wheels turn against the rear - gaining experience of how opposite locks on their turning circles change the path of two interlinked vehicles. In the background are tall beech trees set in a small wood on the small farm. The yard has a smooth ground gravel and stone on which to practice driving.
    learning_reversing01-04-05-2013.jpg
  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief – that invention is the vital spark that drives the world’s technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
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  • Circus acrobats perform high above auditor Ernst & Young's staff during a company Academy Day held for 3,000 of their London employees at Excel in London's Docklands England. Lit with blue light by powerful spotlights, the two girls are suspended in mid-air using hoops attached to safety ropes. They both make dramatic shapes in the air to demonstrate confidence, synchronised teamwork and co-operation between partners, the themes of this corporate day out of the office. The employees out of sight below are attending this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • Late night work on a cargo pallet Ball Mat Flooring System by an engineer staff member who performs maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. On his hands and knees in the otherwise spacious compartment beneath the aircraft passengers' cabin, the hold is used for storing cargo freight and baggage containers that are pushed freely along then locked into position during the loading process.
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  • Sheltered by an umbrella held above her head, a woman signwriter artist paints the text of a West End pubs food menu of pies and fish & chips, outside The Porcupine, a traditional British pub on Charing Cross Road, on 17th February 2020, in London, England.
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  • Landscape painter Rob Pointon RBSA, MAFA who calls himself a 'Plein Air Artist' in Trafalgar Square, on 20th May 2019, in London, England. Rob Pointon (b1982) has been painting since he was a child under the tutelage of his artist Grandmother, and graduated in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University before studying at The Royal Drawing School in London. Rob is an Associate member of the ROI, a member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
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  • Landscape painter Rob Pointon RBSA, MAFA who calls himself a 'Plein Air Artist' in Trafalgar Square, on 20th May 2019, in London, England. Rob Pointon (b1982) has been painting since he was a child under the tutelage of his artist Grandmother, and graduated in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University before studying at The Royal Drawing School in London. Rob is an Associate member of the ROI, a member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
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  • Landscape painter Rob Pointon RBSA, MAFA who calls himself a 'Plein Air Artist' in Trafalgar Square, on 20th May 2019, in London, England. Rob Pointon (b1982) has been painting since he was a child under the tutelage of his artist Grandmother, and graduated in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University before studying at The Royal Drawing School in London. Rob is an Associate member of the ROI, a member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).
    trafalgar_square-04-20-05-2019.jpg
  • Abseiling painters put a fresh coat of colour on the exterior of the Laneborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner, on 8th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • Abseiling painters put a fresh coat of colour on the exterior of the Laneborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner, on 8th June 2018, in London, England.
    abseiling_painters-05-07-06-2018.jpg
  • An female acrobat spontaneously stands on the shoulders of a friend at a coffee kiosk, on 2nd March 2017, in The Cut, London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • butcher preparing organic meat for sale on a wooden table, Devon, UK food industry
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  • Window cleaner abseilers lower themselves down the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London. Making their way steadily down the western face of one of London's newest city buildings, the team of window cleaners attending to the plate glass surfaces which already require attention high above London's streets. With equipment hanging below their feet, they edge slowly and safely to the ground using a system of ropes, harnesses and carabiners. 20 Fenchurch Street is a 37-storey building 160 m (525 ft) tall, commercial skyscraper taking its nickname because of its distinctive shape.
    window_cleaners05-08-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Window cleaner abseilers lower themselves down the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London. Making their way steadily down the western face of one of London's newest city buildings, the team of window cleaners attending to the plate glass surfaces which already require attention high above London's streets. With equipment hanging below their feet, they edge slowly and safely to the ground using a system of ropes, harnesses and carabiners. 20 Fenchurch Street is a 37-storey building 160 m (525 ft) tall, commercial skyscraper taking its nickname because of its distinctive shape.
    window_cleaners04-08-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Seamstress working in a village in the Dawei area of Tenasserim region of Burma.<br />
1998
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  • Using techniques developed over thousands of years, traditional thatcher lays straw on a barn roof in Suffolk, England. Balancing across the width of the roof’s surface, the man uses a Shearing Hook to lay the straw into the outer weathering coat of the roof’s slope. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
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  • Playing "soapy football" on an inflatable pitch, Recife, Brazil.
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  • Two Silversmith etch their many years experience into the making of elaborate Silver tableware objects from Buenos Aires' most famous Silversmith family, the Pallarols originally from Catalunya, Spain.
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  • A Silversmith etches his many years experience into the making of a Silver gourde from which to drink "Mate" tea (Yerba Mate) in Buenos Aires' most famous Silversmith family, the Pallarols originally from Catalunya, Spain.
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  • Details of traditional Uighur instruments in a Kashgar city shop, China
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 is a Uighur of Turkic origin, he has been making over 40 varieties of  traditional instruments in his workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  his own creation for five generations.  These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to Chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region he inhabits.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an in their institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Soldiers  of the Presidential Bodyguard begin the  Changing of the Guard ceremony as they march past the Central Secretariat towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan Palace. They march in formation for the 40 minute Saturday  ceremony where they will take up their posts in guarding the palace. They march from the grounds of the Palace up the Rajpath to the Central Secretariat, or Ministry of Defence and back to the palace grounds where they will hand the ceremonial keys to their replacement soldiers. The PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir.
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  • Using a system of ropes and cables, a team of window cleaners wipe plate-glass and lower themselves from a City of London office block in the heart of the capital's financial district otherwise known as the Square Mile, after its circling Roman wall. Reaching across the window glass that is reflecting background blue sky and white clouds. Looking from beneath them, we see the top of the office building as the duo work their way down towards the ground, their buckets of water used to dip the squeegees.
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  • Half-way across the thin taut wire of a tightrope, an tightwire walker acrobat riding a monocycle pauses and wobbles to compensate his balance before continuing his journey across to safety at the other end of two supporting poles The act forms part of the Canadian circus troupe Cirque de Soleil during a show in Battersea, London. Blue and red spotlights illuminate this daredevil and we see his tights, his wide-sleeved theatrical shirt and the concentration and grim determination on his face - the look of a professional trickster at work. He may be showing a seemingly dangerous and unpredictable stunt though in truth, he will have rehearsed this simple balancing act for many years but must still keep up the illusion of danger for the sake of a gasping, gullible audience.
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  • Layering water reed on to the roof of a Suffolk cottage, traditional thatchers work together in afternoon sun. While in the background new straw is brought up onto the roof while in the foreground another thatcher leans into the ladder and the roof’s slope. Using a thatching tool called a Leggett, Legate, bat or dresser to position the thatch on the roof. Typically one end is treated so as to catch the ends of the reed used. This tool is used by the thatcher to dress the reed into place and ensure an even finish. Using techniques developed over thousands of years, good thatch will not require frequent maintenance. In England a ridge will normally last 10–15 years. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
    thatchers02-16-08-1993_1_1.jpg
  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
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  • Young apprentices climb ladders to the top of a tall chimney during a steeplejack course in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Climbing together, the youths haul themselves up a series of ladders to reach the top. Sponsored training is offered through the Steeplejack Industry Training Group Association and CITB-ConstructionSkills for young people aged 16. Applicants for this scheme will have to pass aptitude tests, literary and Maths assessments, and problem solving. Each year, the Steeplejack Industry Training Group and CITB-ConstructionSkills offer 12 places on training courses for trainee steeplejacks and 12 places for trainee Lightning Conductor Engineers.
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  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle22-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen squinting down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle14-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted ‘suppressor’ minimises the signature normally compromising snipers’ position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
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