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  • A woman pretends to grope the bottom of a TV cameraman as Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building87-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building86-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building38-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building30-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building24-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building21-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building20-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building17-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building16-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building14-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building85-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building77-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building67-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building56-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building44-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building43-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building40-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building26-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building17-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building15-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building11-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building08-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building05-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building04-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building03-04-09-201...jpg
  • An unknown official measures heat in a pavement hotspot as Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street in the City of London. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building02-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building65-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building53-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners film themometers with smartphones and experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building50-05-09-201...jpg
  • A passer-by and an ad for London's skyline featuring the new Walkie-Talkie building as Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building49-05-09-201...jpg
  • A parked car endures intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building31-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building28-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building27-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building19-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building12-05-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building10-04-09-201...jpg
  • Londoners experience the unexpected intensity of localised solar rays, reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car and left soft street fittings smouldering in Eastcheap Street, City of London, the capital's financial district. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to winess the strange phenomena of intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building07-05-09-201...jpg
  • A Londoner experiences the unexpected intensity of solar rays, reflected off one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers in poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building07-04-09-201...jpg
  • The sun rises on a red sky in London's Docklands during a period of regeneration. The solar power gathers in strength and intensity as it climbs from below the horizon and behind buildings, its circular disc a flaming yellow which is soon to turn a deeper hue over the capital's red skies. A crane from a nearby construction project tells about the regeneration of London's East End during the early 1990s when the Thatcherite heyday in house and office building accelerated the demand for homes and headquarters during the economic boom.
    sunrise_buildings-13-06-1991_1.jpg
  • Having just disembarked from a Carnival Cruise ship at the port of Miami, Florida, two tourists carry and pull their baggage along to a waiting coaches that will transport them for onward journeys. Comically they also wear wide sombrero hats bought in Cancun during their vacation around the Gulf of Mexico, the destination of this popular cruise line whose base is Miami. Stitched with garish colours the souvenirs provide shelter from the overhead tropical sun though the woman of this couple chooses to hang hers over a shoulder and keeps her original hat on her head. This may be the couples' honeymoon or just a special annual holiday away from the kids or a humdrum lifestyle where the weather is far from the intensity of Florida, a favourite resort for Americans not liking foreign travel.
    sombrero_tourists_1_1.jpg
  • The intensive glare of solar rays reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building78-05-09-201...jpg
  • The intensive glare of solar rays reflected off the concave plate glass windows of one of the capital's newest skyscrapers known as the Walkie Talkie. The hotspot has surprised developers and passers-by below and which has already melted a parked car in Eastcheap Street. Thermometers placed in the street reached 144F (62 celcius) and city workers poured out of their offices at lunchtime to experience the intense light and heat.
    eastcheap_light_building01-05-09-201...jpg
  • Hidden in a wooden hut, a group of bird-spotting ornithologists peer through binoculars at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) rreserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex England. Watching dozens of wintering birds, the group are intensely looking through their optical equipment in anticipation of seeing rare breeds at this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a wetland alongside the River Thames, 20 miles from Central London. A narrow slit is open to keep them hidden from sight so leaning on elbows and with a guide sheet in front to identify particular species, they concentrate on their hobby. The RSPB has 200 nature reserves covering almost 130,000 hectares, home to 80% of Britain's rarest or most threatened bird species. Its role is to speak out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten the environment.
    electricity385-03-02-2008 _1.jpg
  • Tourists look at a London map and information about renting a TFL 'Boris' bike. The visitors to the UK capital have stopped to read rental and payment instructions at this post that are located throughout London at strategic points, for tourists and Londoners too. The Barclays bank-sponsored bikes (aka 'Boris bikes' after the cycling hire initiative introduced by London Mayor Boris Johnson) are lined up in the background and a map showing the immediate area of this loaction in the City of London, the heart of the capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    eastcheap_light_building84-05-09-201...jpg
  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    sandhurst_cadet04-12-1996.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0116-01_1997_1.jpg
  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
    RB_090-21-04-1991.jpg
  • Grinning from ear to ear, young volunteers throw themselves over a fallen tree during a strenuous activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo, one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It has been a life-changing experience for them and their new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
    raleigh_climbers09-28-1992.jpg
  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_p_company-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A British army Parachute Regiment recruit is suffering from exhaustion on a rigorous assault course conducted over rough terrain and into water. He emerges dripping from the water jump and back into the forest accompanied by instructors who shout encouragement and abuse to get the candidate to a successful stage of this test. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_course-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is straining in his last sit-ups during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0416-01_1997_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_recruitment08-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • A mother holds her baby staying in intensive care, in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 23rd June 1993, in London, England.
    nhs_hospital-23-06-1993_2.jpg
  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2620-07_1970_1.jpg
  • Farmer Gary Castanares polishes his hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares holds a bamboo basket of hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares holds a bamboo basket of hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares hand mills SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares hand mills SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares prepares to hand mill SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Preparing to hand mill SRI rice in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Farmer Gary Castanares attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares prepares to hand mill SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Rwanda. Landscape near Butaré showing intense cultivation of vegetable crops in the valley with forested slopes
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  • An elderly woman spins lotus plant fibre at In Paw Khone, a village of stilt houses on Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). The thread will be used for making woven textiles out of a combination of lotus plant fibres and silk.  Lotus textiles are one of the most expensive textiles in the world. After picking, the fibres are extracted by pulling out, twisting and handrolling together with water and then spun, washed and woven into fabric, an extremely labour intensive process.
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  • With great care, two surgeons work intensely during an open heart procedure at the private Health Care International hospital, They wear hygienic face masks and do their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population world-wide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • Surgeons perform an operation during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital. With great care, two surgeons work intensely wearing hygienic facemasks and perform their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population worldwide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • Greeting visitors to Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarters is a lady employee, one of a small team of 4 receptionists seated in front of a shining art work sculpture by MCM Architecture Limited. This is a scene of understated efficiency of a modern office environment. The female stares intensely into her Dell PC computer monitor before looking to help newcomers. She looks presentable and well-dressed to reflect the casual sincerity that E & Y portray to the world of accountancy and auditing whose 114,000 employees are in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world. They have currently invested in approximately 500,000 Pounds of office art.
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  • A young couple sit at a bench for an intense and intimate talk in the London Science Museum's Deep Blue Cafe. With illumination coming from overhead strip lighting and from below, inside the tables, people sit at the long seating to enjoy the food and drink sold by the Science Museum. The family restaurant, located on the ground floor at the back of the museum serves meals prepared on the premises using fresh, carefully sourced ingredients. A great place to relax and refresh with great views of the high-tech Wellcome Wing.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares polishes his hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • With a large hand from her worried mother gently caressing her head, a tiny premature new-born born baby sleeps on its side with an oxygen tube in its nose, while gathering strength in her incubator at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, England. In her warm cot, a toy bear looks on in the corner and a poem writen on a card from the baby's parents has been attached to the plastic wall. It is a tender moment of hope, that this precious young human life can continue to grow into adulthood and be loved by all. The Royal London Hospital is one of London's oldest, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London.
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  • Crop of runner beans being grown in huge numbers under plastic on a farm near Hartlebury, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Crop of runner beans being grown in huge numbers under plastic on a farm near Hartlebury, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Crop of runner beans being grown in huge numbers under plastic on a farm near Hartlebury, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Crop of runner beans being grown in huge numbers under plastic on a farm near Hartlebury, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Summer rose in Lagrasse garden, 19th July 2015, Lagrasse France.
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  • Surgeons performs open heart surgery during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital in 1994, Glasgow, Scotland. Forceps and scissors and other various implements necessary for efficient medical practice as the masked and gowned doctors, consultants and assisting nurses concentrate on the work in hand, the saving of a human life.
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  • Dr Safaa Elagib Adam reads documents on the journey by air to the firstever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Seated in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves her a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
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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.
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  • An ostrich chick stands alone in a private pen, beneath a heat lamp at the ostrich farm belonging to Robert and Nina Bailey near Chepstow, Wales. The reddish glow from the heat source concentrates life-giving energy into the young bird, helping it survive the first three months after hatching. Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
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  • An analyst for the Enron Corporation, the American energy company based in Houston, Texas, stares transfixed into two computer monitors in the London office at Grosvenor Place, opposite the Queen's official residence, Buckingham Palace. Two Cross of St George flags perch to the tops of the screens. Informal dress was practised in this Enron company building before its eventual bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed around 21,000 people  and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of $111 billion in 2000. Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" but has since become a popular symbol of willful corporate fraud and corruption.
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  • British-born Flight Nurse Barbara Thompson listens to a Native American patient’s breathing in the ER at the San Carlos Apache reservation hospital. British-born Barbara has worked as a nurse in the UK and US for 20 years and listens to her patient’s lungs with a stethoscope as they poor lady lays back on a gurney with an oxygen line to help her difficulties. San Carlos is a 1.8m acre area of scrub and tiny settlements 100 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona with an 11,000 population, its hospital attracting patients from a radius of 20 miles. By flying her she can have far better specialist care at the Indian Medical Center in Phoenix than can be provided in San Carlos who have only a few doctors and four beds. Native American Air Ambulance (NAAA) is the brainchild of Okalahoma native Cherokee Rick Heape Williams.
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  • London Alternative Fashion Week 2012 held at Spitafields Market, showing original and creative collections by a fresh crop of new designers with  innovative ideas and an emphasis on recycling. Model wears recyled jewelry.
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  • A satirical Margaret Thatcher Spitting Image puppet by Fluck and Law wears a blue Conservative rosette and For Hire sticker. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Multi-screen TV images of Margaret Thatcher's last speech as PM at Tory Party conference before being deposed weeks later.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seen on TV wagging a finger during exchanges at the dispatch box with Labour opposition. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher gives her last speech as Prime Minister at the Tory conference, Blackpool before being deposed weeks later. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher gives her last speech as Prime Minister at the Tory conference, Blackpool before being deposed weeks later.Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrives with her late-husband Dennis at the formal 1990 Tory Party conference ball. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher plays up to the media at a North London school in her own constituency of Finchley during the 1992 general election. Although Thatcher had already resigned as Prime Minister in November 1990, John Major won the ensuing leadership election later that year. Photographers and cameramen surround the former-Prime Minister who is wearing a purple suit and matching broach. She is mid-sentence and has found something amusing to respond to the chants of the media. We see cameras, sound booms and flashes all prepared to photograph this famous statesman including Tom Stoddart who is making eye-contact with the viewer.
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  • An NHS surgeon performs an operation in a London hospital using endoscopy. Watching the progress of the instrument as it makes its way along a part of the stomach, the surgeon uses his skill to make minute adjustments using great care and hand-eye co-ordination. Endoscopy means ‘looking inside’ and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope, an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ. Endoscopy can also refer to using a borescope in technical situations where direct line-of-sight observation is not feasible.
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  • As child visitors negotiate their way through a hole, a musician plays the tuba within the art installation sculpture known as Colourscape on Clapham Common, South London, England. Created by an outside overhead sun shining through a collection of large, inflatable PVC domes, the man and other visitors wear coloured capes and walk slowly through tunnels, enticing customers to ecperience vivid colour while emitting eerie sound from voices, brass and string instruments. Designed by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley, Colourscape celebrated its 10th year of installation in Clapham in 2004. Colourscape's charitable Trust, Nettlefold Arts, was founded in 1988, with the purpose of presenting contemporary music, related arts and educational events, in innovative ways.
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama)
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama)
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for 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-0163.jpg
  • Margaret Thatcher returns to the Conservative conference a year after being deposed by her own party colleagues, Blackpool. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
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  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • A lone musician kneels to play the tuba within an oval aperture in the art installation sculpture known as Colourscape on Clapham Common, South London, England. Created by an outside overhead sun shining through a collection of large, inflatable PVC domes, the man walks slowly through tunnels, enticing customers to ecperience vivid colour while emitting eerie sound from voices, brass and string instruments. Designed by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley, Colourscape celebrated its 10th year of installation in Clapham in 2004. Colourscape's charitable Trust, Nettlefold Arts, was founded in 1988, with the purpose of presenting contemporary music, related arts and educational events, in innovative ways.
    colourscape03-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
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