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  • Commuters ride under a lit up elevated highway network in Shanghai, China on 04 February 2010. To put on its best face for the upcoming World Expo, the city has been on a massive beautification binge, including lighting, repaving sidewalks and roads, and even painting the exterior of resident's houses.
    QS100204Shanghai028.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway in Shanghai, China. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 046_alamy.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway in Shanghai, China. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 039_alamy.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway in Shanghai, China. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 074_alamy.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 056_1.jpg
  • Elevated views of the annual Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
    SuffolkShow2019-2248.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses South Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_004.jpg
  • Elevated views of the annual Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
    SuffolkShow2019-2246.jpg
  • Elevated views of the annual Suffolk Show at the Suffolk Show Ground on the 29th May 2019 in Ipswich in the United Kingdom. The Suffolk Show is an annual show that takes place in Trinity Park, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It is organised by the Suffolk Agricultural Association.
    SuffolkShow2019-2240.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses Middle Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_009.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses Middle Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_010.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses Middle Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_008.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses Middle Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_007.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses South Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_005.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks pulls past construction of new apartment buildings into the Canary Wharf financial district at South Quay in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_003.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks pulls past construction of new apartment buildings into the Canary Wharf financial district at South Quay in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_002.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks pulls past construction of new apartment buildings into the Canary Wharf financial district at South Quay in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_001.jpg
  • DLR train on elevated tracks crosses Middle Dock into the Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Canary Wharf is a financial area which is still growing as construction of new skyscrapers continues. The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.
    20180625_canary wharf dlr_006.jpg
  • A view over the Grand Bazar and central old Istanbul in the depths of winter, Istanbul, Turkey
    cp_tur_0206_1.jpg
  • Walkway over the road towards Glorietta Shopping Mall in on Palm Drive, Makati, Philippines.
    Makati-Shopping-District-Manila-5972.jpg
  • Walkway over the road towards Glorietta Shopping Mall in on Palm Drive, Makati, Philippines.
    Makati-Shopping-District-Manila-5976.jpg
  • On a Sunday a major through road running through the heart of the city centre of Sao Paulo, the "Minhocao" serves as a improvised football pitch and jogging and cycling surface for city dwellers.
    20130331_football_brazil_0088_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Istanbul city scape, with the Suleymanie Mosque ( built AD: 1550-1560) in foreground, the Golden Horn and modern Istanbul in the background, Turkey.
    cp_tur_0208_1.jpg
  • A view of Bucharest's central Square surrounded by tanks and bombed out buldings after the Romanian revolution ousted the dictator Ceucescu from power over Christmas of 1989.
    cp_rom_0170_1.jpg
  • 800 varieties of plants, roots, bark, peel, leaves, etc. are stored by Chinese Herbalist Chen Yi He, he is able to dispense from his clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Aerial view of Istanbul city scape, with the Blue Mosque ( built AD:1609-1616) in the foreground and thr Hagia Sophie (built AD 537) in the background with a clear view of the Bosphorous river which divides Asia from Europe, Turkey
    cp_tur_0207_1.jpg
  • The marine harbour of Puerto Banús, Marbella, Spain
    cp_spa_0183_1.jpg
  • A flotila of boats take part in the traditional "Traineras'  boat race in San Sebastian, Basque country, Spain.
    cp_spa_0173_1.jpg
  • The Steel mill of Huta Bobrek sits side by side with local residents causing much environmental pollution and health problems in the region, Bytom, Poland
    cp_pol_0167_1.jpg
  • Cattle farmers passing through the village of Anamoros, El Salvador.
    cp_els_0120_1.jpg
  • Cattle ranchers compare notes on the price of their stock, Anamoros village, El Salvador.
    cp_els_0117_1.jpg
  • In the mangroves that surround the village of Palma Real impoverished resident subsist on musseling for Crabs, Ecuador.
    cp_ecu_0113_1.jpg
  • Worker making Pig Iron at a plant in Divinopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    cp_bra_0276_1.jpg
  • Early morning skyline of Rio de Janeiro, the Corcovado, Christ and the Guanabara bay, Brazil
    cp_bra_0100_1.jpg
  • The largest car plant in Latin America,  Volkswagen in Sao Bernardo dos Campos, Brazil
    cp_bra_0097_1.jpg
  • The Cafe Colombo  tea and coffee house, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    cp_bra_0087_1.jpg
  • Cityscape of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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  • Drying fruit peel, leaves, and other remedies as part of the vast array of Chinese medicine potions, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province.
    chiherb_040_1.jpg
  • Chen YiHe, Chinese Herbalist, studying the inventory of his remedies and potions in his clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Chen Yi He, Chinese Herbal doctor, weighing remedies and ingredients, in his clinic , Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
    chiherb_013_1.jpg
  • The Chuxi - Hakka- earth dwellings, Chuxi village, Fujian Province.  Interior circular courtyard and living spaces with central water well, shared by residents and chickens and dogs alike. These are some of the most extraordinary multistory structures in China built exclusively out of earth and timber (they are known as tulou). From the outside they look and protect like fortresses, built principally by the ethnic minority group known as the Hakka. They where built principally in the 17th till the early 20th centuries. In all about 1000 remain standing today mostly centered around the mountainous regions of the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guandong. They where constructed in various shapes from circular, square, oblong,even rhomboid. The Chuxi earth dwellings where built sometime in the Qing Dynasty ( 1644-1912) and still remains well preserved and lived in by a hand full of residents. The single - story inner ring and three -story outer ring are divided into 15 apartments that surround a courtyard  with a water well. Cooking and eating facilities are at ground level and all bedrooms and storage are spread over the upper floors.
    chihakarou_042_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Istanbul city scape, with the Suleymanie Mosque ( built AD: 1550-1560) in foreground, the Golden Horn, modern Istanbul in the background and the Bosphorous river which devides Europe from Asia, Turkey.
    cp_tur_0209_1.jpg
  • Women picking Coffee beans on an estate in Ruiru, Kenya.
    cp_key_0155_1.jpg
  • At dusk a group of men and women dance on the roof top of a building, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
    cp_cuba_0104_1.jpg
  • The Grand  Hyatt Hotel's  Atrium inside the Jin Mao Tower, looking down, Pudong, Shanghi, China
    chijinmao_019_1.jpg
  • Drying fruit peel, leaves, and other remedies as part of the vast array of Chinese medicine potions, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province.
    chiherb_039_1.jpg
  • A white Egret sits on a rock in the middle of an open drain beneath a flyover near Nizamuddin East market, New Delhi, India
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  • On a dark evening in the Welsh countryside eight ventilated hemispherical glasshouses called Solardomes have been 'painted' with gels and with coloured flash strobes while a torch has streaked whiter light in this scientific facility. Replicating climate change and its effects on plant-life, this experiment run by the University of Aberystwyth has run for 20 years, its research being invaluable to our understanding how rising levels of greenhouse gases (CO2) will affect photosynthesis and therefore plant food growth. By increasing the levels of such gasseous pollutants are we now more sure of how the biology in seminatural grasslands alters. Glowing red, the Solardomes sit like futuristic houses on another planet. Surrounding hills are dark on this evening but there is still detail in the fast-fading sky.
    solardomes_1_1.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk near a lit up elevated highway network in Shanghai, China on 04 February 2010. To put on its best face for the upcoming World Expo, the city has been on a massive beautification binge, including lighting, repaving sidewalks and roads, and even painting the exterior of resident's houses.
    QS100204Shanghai014.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk near a lit up elevated highway network in Shanghai, China on 04 February 2010. To put on its best face for the upcoming World Expo, the city has been on a massive beautification binge, including lighting, repaving sidewalks and roads, and even painting the exterior of resident's houses.
    QS100204Shanghai020.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk near a lit up elevated highway network in Shanghai, China on 04 February 2010. To put on its best face for the upcoming World Expo, the city has been on a massive beautification binge, including lighting, repaving sidewalks and roads, and even painting the exterior of resident's houses.
    QS100204Shanghai008.jpg
  • Pedestrians walk near a lit up elevated highway network in Shanghai, China on 04 February 2010. To put on its best face for the upcoming World Expo, the city has been on a massive beautification binge, including lighting, repaving sidewalks and roads, and even painting the exterior of resident's houses.
    QS100204Shanghai003.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 014_alamy.jpg
  • The elevators at the the Grand Hyatt Hotel, inside the Jin Mao Tower building, Pudong - Shanghai city, China
    chijinmao_023_1.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 014_1.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 013_1.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 006_1.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 021_corbis.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel in Hong Kong, China. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 006_alamy.jpg
  • Elevators and balconies in the atrium at Hong Kong’s famous Royal Garden Hotel. Situated on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong Harbour, this architectural classic interior draws many people to the bar and restaurant area just to experience the space or to travel up and down in the elevators. Centrally based in Tsim Sha Sui east shopping district.
    2005-06-27-early morning 018_1.jpg
  • Employees of the former US giant ENRO corporation at the London offices in March 2000, stand at the doors to a lift (elevator) amid glass and polished steel. We are looking up at them from the ground floor as they wait for the lift to bring them down the building’s atrium. This is in the months before the company’s subsequent collapse with the loss of 22,000 people worldwide. Enron Corporation was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in 2001, Enron was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Oblivious to their employer’s troubles, the two men seem relaxed in this workplace which allowed them to work in casually dress, rather than in formal suits, an apparent hallmark of the company’s lax work ethic.
    enron_workers01-08-03-2000_1.jpg
  • Barrier preventing people entering an elevator being repaired by Schindler Lifts Ltd in the Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong.
    17-HongKong-0093.jpg
  • Barrier preventing people entering an elevator being repaired by Schindler Lifts Ltd in the Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong.
    17-HongKong-0086.jpg
  • Salvador da Bahia historic centre, night time skyline, view from the famous elevator, sunset over looking the bay of all saints - bahia de todos santos, orange and purple sky.
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  • Salvador da Bahia historic centre, night time skyline, view from the famous elevator, sunset over looking the bay of all saints - bahia de todos santos, orange and purple sky.
    _MG_3488_1.jpg
  • The rocky coastline is at Dinas Head in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Seen from high up on the cliff top as a late sun plays across the grasses and sandstone headland. At 463 feet in height, the Dinas Head cliffs provide excellent views across Fishguard Bay to the south and Newport Bay to the north. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is the first National Trail in Wales. Opened in 1970, the path is almost entirely contained within the boundaries of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park that takes in 17 Sites of Scientific Interest (SSSI), two nature reserves, and Wales' only marine nature reserve. The cliff tops offer wonderful expanses of wildflowers in Spring (April and May are best). Wide variety of birds nest along the cliffs, and grey seals can often be seen in the water below.
    wales_pembrokeshire13-02-08-2007_1_1.jpg
  • The rocky coastline is at Dinas Head in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Seen from high up on the cliff top as a late sun plays across the grasses and sandstone headland. At 463 feet in height, the Dinas Head cliffs provide excellent views across Fishguard Bay to the south and Newport Bay to the north. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is the first National Trail in Wales. Opened in 1970, the path is almost entirely contained within the boundaries of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park that takes in 17 Sites of Scientific Interest (SSSI), two nature reserves, and Wales' only marine nature reserve. The cliff tops offer wonderful expanses of wildflowers in Spring (April and May are best). Wide variety of birds nest along the cliffs, and grey seals can often be seen in the water below.
    wales_pembrokeshire03-02-08-2007_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur during a tribal war resulting from colonial land-use. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
    sudan233-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur during a tribal war resulting from colonial land-use. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
    sudan231-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • We see the head and shoulders of a man in military uniform who stands motionless beside the American flag.  he is at a graduation ceremony for United States Air Force pilots who have just passed a week-long survival courseheld at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. Its highy-trained personel conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Conducted, in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
    RB-0164.jpg
  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the zig-zag-shape stripes of escalators, beyond which we see the desks of insurance underwriters at the Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located in Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. looking across
    RB-0142.jpg
  • The zoomed lights of Macau's Hotel Lisboa Casino. Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business, especially after this colony reverted from Portuguese to Chinese rule and mainline Chinese flocked here. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. Though many forms of gambling are legal here, the most popular game in the casinos is baccarat, which generates over two thirds of the gaming industry's gross receipts. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese and the Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau (Macao) is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong.
    RB_141-08-07-1994.jpg
  • A lone walker passes by a partially-collapsed broken sign announcing the summit of Rannoch Moor, Scotland UK, 1,350 feet above sea level. He is hunched against a driving wind at this altitude and the country he is walking over is bleak and boggy, a wetland high up in the Scottish Highlands. Thick tufts of grass and moss lie about in this tough terrain, held in great affection for long-distance hikers. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
    RB_128-12-10-1996.jpg
  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives170-13-11-2007.jpg
  • The Mile End Road leading up to the City of London with the Natwest tower on the horizon. The evening exodus is underway, the rush-hour for commuters and car drivers who head east and west along this old road to and from the City of London, through the poorer east end to the wealth and prosperity of the financial district. Light trails from the vehicles's headlights and tail lights register during a time exposure and the pink city skies to the west glow above the tall office complexes on the skyline.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0407-16-1993.jpg
  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0307-16-1993.jpg
  • Set incongruously next to London's old Leadenhall Market we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_building0107-16-1993.jpg
  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Aerial landscape of old Arab Albaicin quarter and surrounding barrios of the Moorish city of Granada. This aerial landscape also shows in the foreground, the old Arab Albaicin quarter and surrounding barrios of Moorish city of Granada. The Albaicin Quarter is the old Moorish quarter across the River Darro from the Alhambra. When the Moors controlled Granada, this area of the city was the most densely populated. The streets are narrow and many of them do not have sidewalks. The houses are not very high and they are very close to each other. Alhambra (in Arabic, Al-Ḥamra) is a palace and fortress complex constructed during the mid 14th century by the Moorish rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus.
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  • Aerial landscape of old Arab Albaicin quarter and surrounding barrios of the Moorish city of Granada. This aerial landscape also shows in the foreground, the old Arab Albaicin quarter and surrounding barrios of Moorish city of Granada. The Albaicin Quarter is the old Moorish quarter across the River Darro from the Alhambra. When the Moors controlled Granada, this area of the city was the most densely populated. The streets are narrow and many of them do not have sidewalks. The houses are not very high and they are very close to each other. Alhambra (in Arabic, Al-Ḥamra) is a palace and fortress complex constructed during the mid 14th century by the Moorish rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus.
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  • With an autumnal sun setting over the hills to the west of the city, we see in the foreground the streets, rooftops and housing of Florence, viewed from an aerial height from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Rooftops of the church of San Sebastian, in Antequera, Andalucia. From the hilltop castle that overlooks the city, we see the Spanish streets, homes and businesses. Antequera is a city and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. It is known as "the heart of Andalusia" (el corazón de Andalucía) because of its central location among Málaga, Granada, Córdoba, and Seville. In the last quarter of the 1st millennium BCE, the Iberian peninsula became part of the Roman Empire but  the year 711 a tribe of Berbers out of North Africa (Moors) invaded Spain and conquered Antikaria around 176, renaming it Medina Antaquira.
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  • An aerial view of central Macau, looking down on high-rise apartments and poorer housing in this ex-Portuguese colony. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER). Taken from a tall apartment block that overloooks the Rua do Almirant e Costa Cabral, we can view the tightly-packed cities of one of the most densely-populated conurbations in the world, this area is a packed warren of houses, businesses and tower blocks, home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese.
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  • D’Anne, one of the AREPP: Theatre for Life actors evaluates the show ‘No Monkey Business’ with the teachers at Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa. ‘No Monkey Business” is an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Kitty, one of the AREPP: Theatre for Life actors evaluates the show ‘No Monkey Business’ with the pupils of Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa. ‘No Monkey Business” is an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Kitty, one of the AREPP: Theatre for Life actors evaluates the show ‘No Monkey Business’ with the pupils of Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa. ‘No Monkey Business” is an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Kitty, one of the AREPP: Theatre for Life actors evaluates the show ‘No Monkey Business’ with the pupils of Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa. ‘No Monkey Business” is an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to schoolchildren through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • Fatboy Slim in a hotel lift with a cleaner during a tour in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007.
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  • London, UK. Wednesday 23rd January 2013. The View from The Shard. This visitor attraction is the highest vantage point from any building in Western Europe and casts stunning views across the capital. The public viewing deck on level 69 and 72 offers a 360 degree view of the city. Staff member operating one of the lifts.
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  • In the twilight, the artificial illumination of Macau's Hotel Lisboa 24-hour a day casino is the only colour (color) of this cityscape. The dominating silhouette of a giant open-mouthed Chinese lion looms from outside the Bank of China building in central Macau. Besides historical Chinese and Portuguese world-heritage relics, Macau's biggest attraction is its gaming business. Its gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. Though many forms of gambling are legal here, the most popular game in the casinos is baccarat, which generates over two thirds of the gaming industry's gross receipts. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese and the Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau - or Macao - is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macau's name is derived from A-Ma-Gau or Place of A-Ma and this temple dedicated to the seafarers' goddess dates from the early 16th century.
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  • An aerial view of Central Macau, looking down on the ex-Portuguese colony including its Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. Macau is now administered by China as a Special Economic Region (SER). Taken from a tall apartment block that overloooks the Rua do Almirant e Costa Cabral, we can view the tightly-packed cities of one of the most densely-populated connurbations in the world, this area is a packed warren of houses, businesses and tower blocks, home to a population of mainland 95% Chinese, primarily Cantonese, Fujianese as well as some Hakka, Shanghainese and overseas Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The remainder are of Portuguese or mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry, the so-called Macanese, as well as several thousand Filipino and Thai nationals. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region, more commonly known as Macau or Macao is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover. Macao's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas.
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  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of an unidentified island community seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, a few miles to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding an island of white coral beach sand, a harbour, holiday apartments and importantly coastal defence barriers that may defend against rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • At night we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
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  • The commercial and shopping street Via de Calzaioli plus rooftops and housing seen in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). In the background is the fortress palace called the Palazzo Vecchio. Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • New rusty steel bridge raised walkway at the London Wall development, City of London, during the coronavirus pandemic on the 2nd May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. It was central to Make’s design that the stubs and relics of the elevated walkways should be celebrated and enhanced.
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  • View looking down at Nanpu Bridge and the circle junction of highways that wrap in a double layer of six lanes up to and over the bridge which crosses Huang Pu River south of the downtown area in Shanghai, China. Taken from a nearby rooftop on the 30th floor, this construction of elevated highways is a symbol of Shanghai’s recent development as it dwarfs the remaining houses below at the average original level of the city, now reaching for the sky. Busy traffic swirls, their lights blurring around in a never-ending stream of cars which is slowly filling Shanghai’s polluted streets.
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  • Unaffordable housing development hoarding in Battersea, south London. We see the utopian ideal of luxury housing of apartments and penthousing alongside the present landscape of dystopia. Homes alongside London's iconic Battersea power station have gone on sale, three years before the first one will be ready to move into. The Circus West development will see 800 homes built around the south London landmark, which is the largest brick building in Europe. The development includes a mixture of flats, townhouses and penthouses together with offices, shops and leisure facilities, and is the first phase of seven. By 2024 there will be more than 3,400 homes. Residents will have access to an elevated garden, and prices are similarly lofty: studio apartments start at £338,000, one-bed flats at £423,000.
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