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  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist14-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist09-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist01-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist13-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist15-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist03-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist08-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist10-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist05-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • The location in central London where the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company is the scene of one London's most notorious valuables heist in recent years. Over the Easter weekend, jewellery and other items belonging to people from all walks of life and to the value of tens of millions, were ransacked and stolen. The police believe insider knowledge helped the thieves disable security.
    hatton_garden_heist04-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A construction hoarding showing a future estate, on offer for just a 5% deposit, on 28th November 2016, in Camberwell, south London borough of Southwark, England.
    camberwell_development-02-28-11-2016.jpg
  • A construction hoarding showing a future estate, on offer for just a 5% deposit, on 28th November 2016, in Camberwell, south London borough of Southwark, England.
    camberwell_development-01-28-11-2016.jpg
  • Children playing inside the Miami post office with safety deposit boxes, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
    miami_beach-15-05-1996_2.jpg
  • A woman sitting in Miami Beach Post Office a famous landmark built during the great depression as a way of getting people into work. She sits infront of a wall of PO Boxes
    20100110_miami_southbeach-0103_1.jpg
  • Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, at the northern entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The main attraction at Mammoth Hot Springs is the terraces. Heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture combine to create the them. Travertine is deposited as white rock. The Mammoth Hot springs are constantly changing. As formations grow, water is forced to flow in different directions. The constant changes in water and mineral deposits create a living sculpture. Mammoth Hot Springs is divided into two sections, the lower terraces, and the Upper terrace Loop
    2007_08_07_Mammoth Hot Springs_C.jpg
  • As blue light fades on a bitterly cold winter's evening, the barrier of an Austrian level-crossing has been lowered to stop traffic and allow a high-speed ICE-T train to continue on its route through, near Salzburg, Austria, Europe. OBB, the Austrian Federal Railways operate a network of 5,683 km makes them the by far largest railway-company in this country. Heavy snow has fallen in this region of the Alps and deposits have settled on the fences and the glowing red stop traffic light, signalling for motorists to halt at this dangerous road-crossing location. So fast is this mode of transport, it blurs past this cold, desolate spot where only one nearby house is next to the trackside. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
    RB_048-23-12-1994.jpg
  • Tourists relax and swim at Hierve el agua - a natual geological formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of very few in the World where mineral deposits from the water have formed the shape of a waterfall made out of rock.
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  • Hierve el agua is a natual geological formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of very few in the World where mineral deposits from the water have formed the shape of a waterfall made out of rock.
    Oaxaca109_1.jpg
  • Hierve el agua is a natual geological formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of very few in the World where mineral deposits from the water have formed the shape of a waterfall made out of rock.
    Oaxaca108_1.jpg
  • Hierve el agua is a natual geological formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of very few in the World where mineral deposits from the water have formed the shape of a waterfall made out of rock.
    Oaxaca018_2.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-38-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-02-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The flag of the Russian Federation, a metaphor for Russian money and investment in the UK capital, hangs above Cornhill in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 14th March 2018, in London England.
    russians_city-01-14-03-2018.jpg
  • At the height of financial uncertainty, we see from a low pavement angle investors queueing outside the Maddox Street branch of the troubled Northern Rock Bank, off Regent Street, Mayfair, in September 2007. Their hard-earned savings appear to be in jeopardy after the bank announced an emergency loan from the Bank of England. Despite reassurances from officials who insisted that the Bank which has £113bn in assets, was not in danger of going bust, concerned men and women wait in line, some with their faces on view and reading newspapers or more commonly, wishing to remain anonymous and keeping their backs to reporters and cameras. The rush of customers demanding their investments almost spelled the demise of the bank with over £2bn removed from accounts in a few days. Northern Rock struggled since money markets seized up over the summer.
    northern_rock01-17-09-2007.jpg
  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
    maldives212-13-11-2007.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-37-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-26-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The statue of civil engineer James Henry Greathead (1844 – 1896), renowned for his work on the London Underground railway beneath the flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England. VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-24-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-08-26-03-2018.jpg
  • The flags of the Russian Federation and Russian investment Bank VTB Capital hang over banks and other financial institutions in the City of London, the capital's financial district (aka The Square Mile), on 26th March, 2018, in London, England.  VTB Capital operates in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sofia, New York, Zug and Frankfurt, with headquarters in Moscow.
    city_finance-03-26-03-2018.jpg
  • Llama next to the laguna roja red lagoon with a snow capped volcano in the background. Salar Uyuni salt flats and Eduardo Avaroa national park, south western Bolivia
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  • Llamas two 2 next to the laguna roja red lagoon with a snow capped volcano in the background. Salar Uyuni salt flats and Eduardo Avaroa national park, south western Bolivia
    _MG_3644_1.jpg
  • Llamas two 2 next to the laguna roja red lagoon with a snow capped volcano in the background. Salar Uyuni salt flats and Eduardo Avaroa national park, south western Bolivia
    _MG_3643_1.jpg
  • Llamas two 2 next to the laguna roja red lagoon with a snow capped volcano in the background. Salar Uyuni salt flats and Eduardo Avaroa national park, south western Bolivia
    _MG_3641_1.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street in a housing estate in Highgate close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_007.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street in Highgate close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_002.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street in a housing estate in Highgate close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_008.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street on an industrial estate in Deritend close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_006.jpg
  • Old armchair dumped at a main road junction in Bordesley on 21st November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201121_dumped armchair_001.jpg
  • Old sofa dumped at a main road in Kings Heath on 16th November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201116_fly tipping_001.jpg
  • Old sofa dumped at a main road junction in Bordesley on 3rd August 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.  Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200803_dumped sofa_001.jpg
  • In a far corner of a caravan site is a dog exercise area, strictly for where pets can be walked on their leads, sniff and meet other animals and allowed to foul the grass as long as owners clear up their mess and deposit it in the dustbin provided on the path. A sign saying Dog Walk has been staked into the ground and clearly indicates the grassy location, avoiding confusion and argument. The countryside is green at this location in Looe in Devon, England, run by the prestigious Caravan Club of Great Britain whose membership stands around 1 million members. People are allowed to bring pets to only certain sites where areas like this are provided and families prefer to bring their dogs on holiday with them rather than pay for kennels.
    dog_area-13-08-2000_1.jpg
  • An elderly man watches younger males as they prepare to ride off on newly-rented 'Boris bikes' in Westminster, Central London. The sponsored bicycles have been provided for Londoners and visitors by Barclays Bank and is the brainchild of Mayor of London, Boris Johnson whose aim is to cut down on heavy traffic and increase cycling journeys. These Polish tourists have paid their deposit and are now about to ride off round central London.
    boris_bikes02-07-04-2011-2_1.jpg
  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20170110_fly tipping_005.jpg
  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20170110_fly tipping_004.jpg
  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20170110_fly tipping_003.jpg
  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20170110_fly tipping_001.jpg
  • Resprayed post office Royal Mail letter box in Birmingham, United Kingdom. A post box, also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intended for collection by the agents of a countrys postal service.
    20190320_post box_001.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street in Highgate close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_001.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street on an industrial estate in Deritend close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_005.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street on an industrial estate in Deritend close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_003.jpg
  • Old armchair dumped at a main road junction in Bordesley on 21st November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201121_dumped armchair_002.jpg
  • Old sofa dumped at a main road in Kings Heath on 16th November 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201116_fly tipping_002.jpg
  • Old sofa dumped at a main road junction in Bordesley on 3rd August 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.  Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200803_dumped sofa_002.jpg
  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200415_fly tipping_004.jpg
  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200415_fly tipping_003.jpg
  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200415_fly tipping_002.jpg
  • Fly tipping rubbish on an industrial estate in Ladywood on 15th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200415_fly tipping_001.jpg
  • Fly tipping rubbish site just off The Highway beside a construction site for new stunning offices in East London on 24th February 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20200224_fly tipping_001.jpg
  • Fly tipping site under railway arches in East London, England, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20170110_fly tipping_002.jpg
  • Fly tipped waste on the street on an industrial estate in Deritend close to the city centre on 14th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.
    20201214_fly tipping birmingham_004.jpg
  • A street sweeper with contractor Amey brushes round a leaning automatic traffic control bollard in St . Swithins Lane, City of London. The workman wears a high-vis jacket and trousers with a bright red hat and he reaches awkwardly behind the damaged pole that leans at an odd angle, seemingly hit by a vehicle. Behind him is swept litter that he will deposit into his bin trolley. It is an odd scene of irregularity in otherwise regimented urban streets of the capital's financial centre aka The Square Mile, founded by the Romans in the 1st century.
    city_people32-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • An inspection by the Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team looks closely at Victorian-era brick wall linings of the Fleet Rivers Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London, on 19th June 1994, in London, England. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles 720 km of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles 21,000 km of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_inspection-19-06-1994.jpg
  • A view of densely built residential apartment developments near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos119.jpg
  • A view of densely built residential apartment developments near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos114.jpg
  • A man walks past at the site of a new luxury housing development being built in the middle of the dessert near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos110.jpg
  • A woman and her child walks down a newly built road  near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos104.jpg
  • A man works at the site of a new luxury housing development being built in the middle of the dessert near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos109.jpg
  • A view of the slick Ordos Museum seen in the night in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 92 July, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos095.jpg
  • A child peeks out a parked car in the night in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 92 July, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos094.jpg
  • Visitors, mostly curious tourists and migrant workers, watch a grand lights and fountain show near the artificial lake in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos075.jpg
  • Flowers and young saplins planted in a garden in the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos069.jpg
  • A man waters the flowers decorating a bridge leading into Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • A long stall offers snacks to visitors near the artificial lake in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • Visitors, mostly curious tourists and migrant workers, watch a grand lights and fountain show near the artificial lake in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos062.jpg
  • Visitors, mostly curious tourists, walk down a flight of neon lit stairs near the artificial lake in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • Visitors, mostly curious tourists, walk down a flight of neon lit stairs near the artificial lake in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • A man sweeps a newly built road leading towards a luxury housing develpment near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • Empty electric buggies wait for customers in Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
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  • Workers walk by piles of iron ore at a transfer and storage center operated by the Shanghai International Port Group in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • A conveyer belts dumps iron ore onto a pile at a transfer and storage center operated by the Shanghai International Port Group in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • A conveyer belts dumps iron ore onto a pile at a transfer and storage center operated by the Shanghai International Port Group in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • Smoke stacks of local steel plants billow out exhaust behind a large storage facility for iron ore in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • Dock workers keep maintenance on a mechanical scoop at an iron-ore transfer and storage center operated by the Shanghai International Port Group in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • Snow capped volcanoes and moss deposits. Salar Uyuni salt flats and Eduardo Avaroa national park, south western Bolivia
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  • A exterior of the now ruined Shildon Engine House, on 29th September 2017, in Blanchland, Northumberland, England. Built around 1805 to house a Cornish pumping engine which kept the network of lead mines operating underneath from flooding. The North Pennines is known for its deposits of lead ore etc., a large part of the areas economy. In the 1840s an enormous steam engine was installed in an attempt to keep the mines dry enough to work. Following decommissioning, the engine house was converted to a series of flats for mining families. It was finally abandoned around 100 years ago and has been derelict ever since. The Engine House is a dramatic reminder of a once thriving lead mining community of 170 people. The population declined after the mid-1800s when cheaper lead began to be imported from abroad, and young Shildon families emigrated to the goldmining areas of Australia and America.
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  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
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  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovelling the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
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  • Sprayed marks on the outside wall of an industrial estate, marked for redevelopment in Loughborough Junction, a site for regeneration and gentrification of luxury flats in the south London borough of Lambeth. Criss-crossed over the brick wall are the aerosol markings to show a future demolition crew where to cut through this outer boundary. The gentrification process is spreading across many London boroughs, erasing industrial property, the home of small businesses and trades like carpentry - in favour of exclusive homes that command large deposits and rents that local Londoners cannot afford.
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  • Rocky boulders that have fallen from cliffs above are seen in front of Tigh SgeirGael - built in 2005 – a self catering cottage sitting just 50 metres from the sea under the magnificent Gribun cliffs at Gribun, Isle of Mull, Scotland. (http://www.accommodationsmull.co.uk/gribun/). The rocky shore nearby are sandstones deposited in a desert region at the same sort of latitude and rather like the Persian Gulf today.
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  • Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides during company presentation at Farnborough airshow. Virgin Galactic has developed the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo vehicles, based on the X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne. In his role, Whitesides is responsible for guiding all aspects of the company to commercial operation at Spaceport America in New Mexico. This includes oversight of The Spaceship Company, a joint venture with Scaled to manufacture additional vehicle sets. The company currently has deposits from over 455 individuals for its spaceflight experience. Prior to Virgin Galactic, Whitesides served as Chief of Staff for NASA, where he provided policy and staff support to the agency’s Administrator. Upon departure from the agency he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award the agency confers.
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  • Someone’s pet spaniel is enjoying the smell of another dog’s faeces that has been deposited on the pavement at Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland, northern England. Using its wet nose to test its acute sense of smell, the spaniel shows great curiosity in another animals crap that has been left by the other animal’s owner, rather than be collected and placed in a dog poo receptacle. The irony is that there is graffiti on the sea wall of this seaside town. The mis-spelled words ‘England For Ever’ have been sprayed in aerosol on the wall and we see someone’s idea of a utopian England and another’s lowered standards where the fouling of a public pavement is seen as acceptable.
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  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • Charity shop donations strewn in the gutter outside a local thrifty shop in south London. Among autumn leaves are someone's old possessions strewn across the gutter outside the thrift shop in East Dulwich in south London. Childrens's toys and a young person's treasured items seen opposite a green bin where Shoes and Textiles can be deposited. But a common problem is that charity donors leave unwanted things outside in the street, for others to come and rifle through, leaving a mess that's difficult for volunteers to clean up.
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  • A dog owner bends down to pick up his dog's mess in an Autumnal park. Surrounded by autumn leaves, brown and yellow in afternoon sunlight, the man stoops to collect the dog's crap on the grass in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth. In the background are Edwardian period homes on Finsen Road, SE24. If in contact with such organic material, it's known to cause Toxocariasis - especially in children - a condition caused by bacteria that travels to the human eye so it is expected that pet owners take the faeces away, wrapped in plastic bags and deposited in specially-provided bins at various entrance and exit gates.
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  • A view of densely built residential apartment developments near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos140.jpg
  • A view of densely built residential apartment developments near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos144.jpg
  • Workers uproot indigenous desert plants to make room for a new flower bed close to a densely built residential apartment development near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos131.jpg
  • Workers uproot indigenous desert plants to make room for a new flower bed close to a densely built residential apartment development near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos132.jpg
  • A view of densely built residential apartment developments near the Kangbashi New District of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China on 16 August, 2011. With an investment of over 161billion USD from the local government and revenue from the region's rich coal deposits, enough buildings have risen on the site of an old desert village to hold at least 300,000 residents, complete with ultra modern facilities and grand plazas. The district however is less than 10% occupied, dubbed the "ghost city", Kangbashi epitomizes China's real estate bubble and dangers in mindless investment fueled economic  growth. In 2011, the real estate price of Ordos city has dropped over 70%.
    QS110816Ordos128.jpg
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