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  • A detail display of heaps of smiley face happiness cushions which are piled up in the window of a general store shop in Brixton, south London borough of Lambeth, England on 6th June 2016.
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  • At a Hindu wedding the newly wed bride, Shweta Singhal,  looks out of the car window in a mixture of sadness and happiness as she departs with her husband, Rohit, to begin a new life, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • A Hindu bride, Shweta Singhal has three garlands of flowers placed around her neck by her newly wed husband in a ceremony known as Jaimaal, as guests and family of the couple look on in happiness, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan India.
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  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 1st May 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200503_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction which is virtually deserted under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 29th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200430_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction which is virtually deserted under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 29th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200430_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Life is too short to be wasted on the pursuit of happiness, a piece of poetic street art graffiti in the canal underpass at Gravelly Hill Interchange, aka Spaghetti Junction which is virtually deserted under Coronavirus lockdown, while far fewer vehicles pass overhead on 29th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The term Spaghetti Junction was originally used to refer to Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has put in place more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
    20200430_coronavirus spaghetti junct...jpg
  • Young European couple at friends' wedding reception in Blantyre, Malawi in the mid-1960s. The woman holds two glasses of perhaps champagne and laughs out loud at a joke or quip that her male friend has told. There are bridesmaids behind them on the patio terrace where other guests enjoy the happy at the happy reception for ex-pat Europeans living in this central African state.
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  • Shop shutters in Aldgate, London are painted with the letters forming the word HAPPY. This kind of inspirational street art is commonplace around the outskirts of the city.
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  • Young European couple at their engagement party in Blantyre, Malawi in the mid-1960s.  Standing together against a plain wall in a small house or bungalow, they look happy with the prospect of married life - both smiling broadly next to a patterned curtains (drapes).
    john_and_ann02-19-07-1966.jpg
  • Woman walks past shop shutters in Aldgate, London are painted with the letters forming the word HAPPY. This kind of inspirational street art is commonplace around the outskirts of the city.
    happy sign20111214_0587.jpg
  • A happy logo for Miami and the Sunshine State with Palm trees in the background, on 15th May 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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  • A young boy creates ripples as he plays with his radio-controlled boat in the River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. The sun is hidden behind a line of trees and the boy who is backlit stands in the shallow part of the river up to his ankles, wearing his swimming costume. The small boat is only a few feet from the antenna that controls its movement. It is a scene of idyllic tranquility, a childhood of happy summer days. Here the Thames is at its most serene, where visitors enjoy its shallows with the fear of strong currents, tides or large boating activity.
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  • The fathers, mothers and sisters of a Hindu bride and groom pose for wedding photographs, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • Spectators on the bank of the River Thames at Hammersmith during the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. London, UK.
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  • Spectators on the bank of the River Thames at Hammersmith during the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. London, UK.
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  • Two market traders relax and embrace. Rangoon, Burma.1997
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  • Spectators on the bank of the River Thames at Hammersmith during the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. London, UK.
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  • Spectators on the bank of the River Thames at Hammersmith during the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. London, UK.
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  • Spectators on the bank of the River Thames at Hammersmith during the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. London, UK.
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  • A couple enjoy the shopping experience in central London, on 21st September 1999, near Old Bond Street, london, England.
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  • A couple enjoy an intimate moment at an outdoor cafe in central London, on 21st September 1999, near Old Bond Street, london, England.
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  • Forming a circle which then everyone rushes into, in an explosion of joyous dancing on Monday 28th August 2016 at the 50th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europes largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. It is led by members of the West Indian / Caribbean community, particularly the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past and centres around a parade of floats, dancers and sound systems.
    20160829_notting hill carnival_C_390.jpg
  • Forming a circle which then everyone rushes into, in an explosion of joyous dancing on Monday 28th August 2016 at the 50th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europes largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. It is led by members of the West Indian / Caribbean community, particularly the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past and centres around a parade of floats, dancers and sound systems.
    20160829_notting hill carnival_B_016.jpg
  • Forming a circle which then everyone rushes into, in an explosion of joyous dancing on Monday 28th August 2016 at the 50th Notting Hill Carnival in West London. A celebration of West Indian / Caribbean culture and Europes largest street party, festival and parade. Revellers come in their hundreds of thousands to have fun, dance, drink and let go in the brilliant atmosphere. It is led by members of the West Indian / Caribbean community, particularly the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past and centres around a parade of floats, dancers and sound systems.
    20160829_notting hill carnival_A_021.jpg
  • A Brokpa family prepares to migrate to their summer pastures with their 'zhomo' (male yak and female cow cross), Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs.
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  • London, UK. Saturday 7th March 2015. Miilion Women Rise march. Million Women Rise (MWR) is a women-only march and rally against male violence against women, held annually in London close to International Women's Day. Thousands of woman from all over the World united together to end all forms of violence, abuse and sexual exploitation.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
    IMG_9579_1.jpg
  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, pictured here with his daughter, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
    IMG_2798_1.jpg
  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his swede, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
    IMG_2416_0394-2_1.jpg
  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his carrots, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
    IMG_2326_1.jpg
  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
    IMG_1834_0237_1.jpg
  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
    IMG_1464_1.jpg
  • A 19 year-old girl's hair blows across her face at the beach at Brighton, England. Wearing glasses to rectify her short-sightedness (myopia) the young lady can see little as her long hair sweeps over her eyes. It is a sunny day on the southern English coastal town, with a shingle beach stretching down to the sea.
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  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
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  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Kids choir, made from schools from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival kids choir_...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop under the instruction of a choral conductor. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform to a gathered audience at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Afterwards Adrian Evans (Director of Totally Thames) speaks. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Adults choir, made from choirs from all over the region, perform at The Scoop. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival adults choi...jpg
  • Commuters seen through the scratched glass of the stairway leading to the bridge across the River Thames. London, UK.
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  • London, UK. Thursday 12th June 2014. Dancing and singing in joy underneath a giant Brazilian flag. Brazilians gather for the Brazil Day celebrations in Trafalgar Sq. A gathering to celebrate the beginning of the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup. Revellers sing and dance and play football games and all in the yellow green and blue of the Brazilian flag.
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  • London, UK. Thursday 12th June 2014. Dancing and singing in joy underneath a giant Brazilian flag. Brazilians gather for the Brazil Day celebrations in Trafalgar Sq. A gathering to celebrate the beginning of the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup. Revellers sing and dance and play football games and all in the yellow green and blue of the Brazilian flag.
    20140612_brazil day under giant flag...jpg
  • London, UK. Thursday 12th June 2014. Dancing and singing in joy underneath a giant Brazilian flag. Brazilians gather for the Brazil Day celebrations in Trafalgar Sq. A gathering to celebrate the beginning of the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup. Revellers sing and dance and play football games and all in the yellow green and blue of the Brazilian flag.
    20140612_brazil day under giant flag...jpg
  • The mock wedding between Laura Dickie and Charles Kenyon as part of the festivities of their small rural community in Vermont, USA
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  • The "Cunha Poranga' Carnival Queen, dances inside the stadium during the three day event which celebrates the native Amazon indian myths and legends of the " Boi Bumba" carnival, Parintins, Brazil
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  • Mu Ze Latso with a friend, also from the Mo Suo minority visit a Buddhist temple in Yongning town, north west Yunnan Province, close to Tibetan and Sichuan border.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Mu Ze Latso, 22, shares a joke and an intimate moment with her mother Mu Ze Namu, they belong to the Mo Suo minority / tribe from Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room
    chilugu_048_1.jpg
  • Liang Xiu Fen has suffered a stroke causing partial paralysis. She is being administered with Acupuncture and Cupping to attempt to reverse the symptoms of the paralysis,  Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Annual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada part of the summer festivities around the country, Nicaragua
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  • Young school girl, Jasbir Kaur, runs along a yellow mustard field in Chita Kalaan village, Punjab, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding the newly wed bride, Shweta Singhal  (centre) supports her sobbing mother on one side and brother on the other as she and her husband, Rohit, leave the wedding ceremony after its climatic conclusion  to begin a new life, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
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  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony groom Rohit has an auspicious red mark called a tilak, made of sandlewood, placed on his forehead as a blessing, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071128_india_0303_1.jpg
  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony, bride Shweta Singhal has groom Rohit dip his wedding ring into  a red powder known as sindoor and marks  his newly wed wife forehead as a sign of their marriage, they are surrounded vy most of their most immediate families, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony, bride Shweta Singhal and groom Rohit clasp each others hands with a handful of puffed rice which is then thrown into a fire as an offering to the god of fire, Agni. Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
    20071128_india_0248_1.jpg
  • The climax of a Hindu wedding. Shweta Singhal, sits on her father's lap whilst a priest together with the bride's mother and closest family members look on as the groom Rohit, places around his newly wed wife a necklace with a gold locket, which is sign of a married women. The guests sprinkle  the newly weds in a shower of pink rose petals, Neemrana Fort, Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • A Hindu bride groom  places on his fiancé's finger the wedding ring which signifies their engagement, overlooked by both their respective families, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
    20071127_india_0241_1.jpg
  • Young women from Lilongwe whom have made the 45 hour journey to Chinteche to enjoy the Lake of Stars Music festival, Malawi.
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  • Locals talking to foreign tourists at the Lake of Stars Music festival, Chinteche, Malawi.
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  • Three friends in their thirties are hugging each other tightly at Coates Wine Bar on London Wall in the City of London, England. We see their three heads as close as possible accompanied by three wall-mounted lights that are glowing a warm red tone making this a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. The man and one of the girls are chubby with round cheeks and chins and so enjoy the good life.
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  • A girl laughs whilst laying on the wall on Tower Bridge, London. A tourist having her photo taken, she was overcome with laughter.
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  • An Indian man on top of a mountain showing joy, 20th October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, masked Londoners walk past a large construction hoarding showing jolly catering kitchen workers at Elephant & Castle, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-41-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a masked Londoner walk past a large construction hoarding showing jolly catering kitchen workers at Elephant & Castle, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-44-22-04-2020.jpg
  • As the number of people dying with Covid-19 in hospitals in England rises by another 665 to 16,272, and the UK experiences further lockdown by the UK government due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a masked Londoner walk past a large construction hoarding showing jolly catering kitchen workers at Elephant & Castle, on 22nd April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lockdown-45-22-04-2020.jpg
  • A young woman wearing a red theme of beret and scarf, walks down Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus in Soho, carrying some Valentines Day roses, and photographs herself with a beaming smile, on 14th February 2020, in London, England.
    valentines_lady-04-14-02-2020.jpg
  • Children pose for a photo at a swimming pool in Germany, on 13th July 1970, in Bielefeld, Germany.
    60s_germany04-13-07-1970.jpg
  • Sheltering under a shopping bag, two women hurry through Londons streets during unseasonal June showers, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
    west_end_people-21-14-06-2019.jpg
  • View from the top deck of a London bus, of outdoor drinkers siting on benches and raising theor glasses for a toast, outside a bar near Oval in south London, on 23rd May 2019, in London, England.
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  • A couple hold hands while enjoying a tea and a beer at an outdoor cafe, on 11th June 1999, in Seville, Andalucia, Spain.
    happy_couple-21-09-1999_2.jpg
  • Two women hug while greeting each other beneath a retail poster for a new Jigsaw clothing shop, on 29th September 2016, in central London. Warmly hugging in a spontaneous moment of friendship, the women hold on tight before entering the new store premises.
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