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  • Multiple McDonalds arch logos seen through a central London bus shelter. Multiple reflections of the logo is seen through the glass of a central London bus stop where buses frequently pause, again repeating the pattern and design across the scene. McDonalds are again increasing their presence in the capital, this time on a prominent corner of Cambridge Circus in the West End. Two women walk past, their bodies partially obscured by the golden arches.
    mcdonalds_signs10-15-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A theme of repeating coloured squares and the backs of queueing lunchtime customers, on 16th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    squares_people-02-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A bare winter tree with bare branches in front of construction sheeting themed with green leaves. Seen from below, at street level, the tree's branches are like twigs with only the remnants of its seasonal foliage. But green leaves are there in the form of a giant repeating graphic pattern of maple leaf, coloured green to juxtapose against the bleaker form of the tree, an incongruous scene of irony.
    tree_sheeting03-07-01-2011_1_1_1.jpg
  • The cross on the wall of Herne Hill's United Reform Church and the direction sign post (plus its shadow) of Red Post Hill, south London. Echoed by a low winter sun, we see the three repeating crosses as a visual pun, a joke of three same shapes but with different meanings. The exterior of this church is from the 1970s period of architecture but the red post is a recent addition, instigated by locals to return the original landmark for this road junction, a marker for walkers and horses on old byways, paths and tracks going back many hundreds of years. On the post we see that Brixton is one mile away and the neighbouring areas of Herne Hill and Tulse Hill and Sydenham are close too.
    crosses_crucifix03-09-12-2010_1.jpg
  • Multiple McDonalds arch logos seen through a central London bus shelter. Multiple reflections of the logo is seen through the glass of a central London bus stop where buses frequently pause, again repeating the pattern and design across the scene. Macdonalds are again increasing their presence in the capital, this time on a prominent corner of Cambridge Circus in the West End.
    mcdonalds_signs04-15-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A construction hoarding showing London's Shard skyscraper and Give Way triangle at a road junction in south London. As a visual rhyme, we see the echoes of shapes and geometry, a repeating of triangles and diagonals - a geometric shape and a skyscraper with scale and perspective. Standing 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union, by Italian architect Renzo Piano that dominates this borough of Southwark in south London.
    shard_triangles08-27-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A street theme of road marking and another yellow arrow on a central London wall. The urban landscape is seen on a wet day in the capital where arrows are the repeating theme on the road surface and pavement. Yellow lines disappear down a narrow lane, turning around the corner and out of sight. On the otherwise wet and dark day, the colours are vibrant and highly visible.
    street_arrow02-21-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A construction hoarding showing London's Shard skyscraper and Give Way triangle at a road junction in south London. As a visual rhyme, we see the echoes of shapes and geometry, a repeating of triangles and diagonals - a geometric shape and a skyscraper with scale and perspective. Standing 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union, by Italian architect Renzo Piano that dominates this borough of Southwark in south London.
    shard_triangles05-27-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A construction hoarding showing London's Shard skyscraper and Give Way triangle at a road junction in south London. As a visual rhyme, we see the echoes of shapes and geometry, a repeating of triangles and diagonals - a geometric shape and a skyscraper with scale and perspective. Standing 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union, by Italian architect Renzo Piano that dominates this borough of Southwark in south London.
    shard_triangles02-27-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Multiple McDonalds arch logos seen through a central London bus shelter. Multiple reflections of the logo is seen through the glass of a central London bus stop where buses frequently pause, again repeating the pattern and design across the scene. McDonalds are again increasing their presence in the capital, this time on a prominent corner of Cambridge Circus in the West End. A family walk past, their bodies partially obscured by the golden arches.
    mcdonalds_signs07-15-04-2015_1.jpg
  • From inside a large cube, we see Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto's "Metrocubo d’Infinito" mirror installation at Palazzo Strozzi in the Medici Renaissance city of Florence. While the exterior of the cube looks like a gigantic rusty rubix-cube, inside is really a kind of infinity of self-reflection, covered entirely, floor to ceiling, in mirrors. And in the centre of the cube is another smaller cube made of grey stone. Young female visitors engage with the artwork and peer down to the floor where, just like all four walls and the ceiling, the repeating image stretches as far as the eye can focus.
    florence_italy01-21-10-2010_1.jpg
  • Cyclists pedal past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles on exterior windows in the City of London. As the rider passes-by, the spots on the window repeat on the wheels of the bike on a bright day, where contrast is high and shadows deep. Traffic has made its way northwards across London Bridge from the southern bank to the city itself on the north. There is little colour, a scene of monochrome - of greys and blacks.
    city_spots04-15-04-2014.jpg
  • Glass repetition of parked car with blue theme coloured pillars and struts on development opposite the Tate Modern gallery on London's Southbank. Looking into the shadows of a building's foyer, we see the white car being repeated in relation to the number of glass surfaces. The vehicle is parked at the kerbside and its image merges with the architecture of red diagonal blue and vertical.
    lomdon_walk16-02-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A detail of three Girls words repeated in neon, in the doorway of an adult shop in Soho, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    soho_girls-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • The repetition of a sign hanging in a shop's window in south London. We see a detail of the notice on the outside of a local business called carpet Corner which is apparently closed today and its trading statement is repeated four times.
    closed_business01-08-11-2015_1.jpg
  • In the week that Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex renounced his HRH His royal highness title, to become more independent outside the royal family and with wife, Meghan Markle, his repeated face appears in the folded copies of Evening Standard newspapers on Piccadilly, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
    piccadilly-15-20-01-2020.jpg
  • In the week that Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex renounced his HRH His royal highness title, to become more independent outside the royal family and with wife, Meghan Markle, his repeated face appears in the folded copies of Evening Standard newspapers on Piccadilly, on 20th January 2020, in London, England.
    piccadilly-16-20-01-2020.jpg
  • Passengers board a London bus at a bus stop in Kingston, on 7th November 2019, in London, England.
    kingston_journey-32-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A banksman working on a nearby building site, holds his Stop sign under the large circles of a construction hoarding on central London's Oxford Street. Standing against the side of the hoarding, the worker awaits the next truck to exit the site for which he'll again stop traffic and allow a safe passage to the industrial vehicle. We see the curves and concentric circles of circles, as if a target from an unseen enemy.
    circles_workman03-16-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A lady gesticulates with her fingers, echoing the feathered wings of a bronze artwork's wings in the City of London. Spreading her fingers during an animated conversation with an unseen friend, she stands beneath the giant artwork. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_art05-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A young boy plays billiards in Avebury Manor, an early 16th-century manor house in the village of the same name, built within the Neolithic henge site of Avebury, Wiltshire. The house is a living museum, its renovation funded by the BBC as part of a TV series about heritage restoration and now owned by the National Trust. The young boy pauses to think of his next move, holding the cue across the green baized table to make a triangle - echoing the shapes of overhead lamp shades above his head.
    avebury_billiards01-27-10-2015_1.jpg
  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages. The stencilled writing on the ground makes for a humerous landscape in the borough of Westminster. It is a scene about the golden age of steam travel - an era of smoke and soot when the locomotive ruled he country's rail network - and that of the modern era of road transportation. This tourist coach is parked near the famous buildings of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, allowing visitors to disembark and leave again soon after their tour of the area.
    coaches_bus02-09-09-2015.jpg
  • Parked bicycles and couple in cafe window in Soho, central London. From the street outside, we see the people enjoying a lunchtime chat in this cafe in a small side street in the capital. There is a repetition of three-wheeler bikes with the name of the business on its side.
    soho_cafe01-20-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A young woman wearing yellow walks past matching coloured scaffolding on London's Southbank. In a scene of yellows, we see the construction site with stacked scaffold poles with their ends and middles making it a safe material to erect on the sides of buildings.
    yellow_scaffolding03-12-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflection of street woman, waiting for a City of London bus. As others pass-by on their different journeys, they don't see the same perspective as the viewer though a man walking towards us does look in her direction. She listens to MP3 music before her bus arrives to take her northbound. The symmetry doubles the person's presence in the window of an office, on Bishopsgate (street) in what's called the Square Mile, the capital's financial heart, named after its ancient Roman walled past.
    woman_symmetry05-26-02-2014.jpg
  • The symmetrical reflection of a street woman, waiting for a City of London bus. As others pass-by on their different journeys, they don't see the same perspective as the viewer. She listens to MP3 music before her bus arrives to take her northbound. The symmetry doubles the person's presence in the window of an office, on Bishopsgate (street) in what's called the Square Mile, the capital's financial heart, named after its ancient Roman walled past.
    woman_symmetry04-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Angled passer-by reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance. A man walks along this city street with strong sunshine just over the roofs of buildings opposite. He strides along with his shadow forming the bottom of the picture, near the windows of a corporate office foyer whose red seat is seen on the right. The view is angled to let the straight lines become diagonals that cross the photo, in the heart of the capital's financial centre, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_people15-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Giant model in red and white spotted display of artist Yakoi Kusama whose collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Selfridges whose red campaign theme accompanies a life size model of the artist in the department store windows and Oxford Street entrance. Yayoi Kusama (1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern.
    yakoi_kusama05-02-10-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A woman seemingly passes through her own reflection in a humerous scene in plate glass of a pedestrian walking through a shopping complex in the financial City of London. The symmetrical reflection doubles the person's presence in the window of an office, on a corner  in what's called the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past.
    city_landscape14-30-01-2013_1.jpg
  • A Londoner and squares on the glass screens at a bus stop in Kingston, on 7th November 2019, in London, England.
    kingston_journey-28-07-11-2019.jpg
  • Wet Paint signs and a passing workman with a matching yellow  spirit level, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
    wet_paint-10-16-02-2017.jpg
  • A woman consumer carrying a spotty shopping bag passes a window theme of dots in the window of Etro on Old Bond Street, central London. Walking past the display of three mannequins wearing stylish clothing is a coincidental scene, a humerous moment in the life of this exclusive street in the capital known for fine couture and jewellery of luxury brands. The background is a video playing on a continuous loop alternately featuring spots and stripes.
    spotted_display12-15-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A tourist is surrounded by a flock of greedy gulls hovering above on London's Southbank, opposite the Westminster parliament. Smiling to another person who is taking her photo, the young woman smiles as the birds' wings beat overhead, flocking around her as swarm excitedly in the air above. In the background is the expanse of Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament and the tall clock tower containing the Big Ben bell.
    lomdon_walk25-02-02-2016_1.jpg
  • Construction landscape outside the Tate Britain art gallery on London's Southbank. The promise of more space for visitors is proclaimed by gallery owners whose new wing will allow more comfort for those appreciating the Arts. There are two workmen both on top of a walking gantry, their hi-vis jackets making them highty visible. There also a repetition of red and white colours alternating around the corner of the road junction - a curve of industrial building barriers to help control traffic and stop pedestrians entering this work zone.
    lomdon_walk12-02-02-2016_1.jpg
  • Construction landscape outside the Tate Britain art gallery on London's Southbank. The promise of more space for visitors is proclaimed by gallery owners whose new wing will allow more comfort for those appreciating the Arts. There is no-one in this landscape but there is a repetition of red and white colours alternating around the corner of the road junction - a curve of industrial building barriers to help control traffic and stop pedestrians entering this work zone.
    lomdon_walk11-02-02-2016_1.jpg
  • Businessmen and others tow baggage as they cross Fenchurch Street in the City of London. Pulling their identical suitcases across the busy road, the two associates have the same items behind them. In front, we also see others coming the other way, each with hands on handles as they wheel their possessions behind them in the heart of the capital's financial district aka The Square Mile.
    city_people02-09-10-2015.jpg
  • A woman sits with legs crossed in front the Debenhams exterior featuring a male model echoing the same sitting position. Shoppers are on the busy Oxford Street in the capital, a location for many high and low-end shops and stores. Londoners sit on stone benches to rest and gather themselves, to check messages and inspect their purchases. In the background we see the same male model wearing various clothing on sale inside this shop.
    crossed_legs01-15-09-2015.jpg
  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages. The stencilled writing on the ground makes for a humerous landscape in the borough of Westminster. It is a scene about the golden age of steam travel - an era of smoke and soot when the locomotive ruled he country's rail network - and that of the modern era of road transportation. This tourist coach is parked near the famous buildings of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, allowing visitors to disembark and leave again soon after their tour of the area.
    coaches_bus01-09-09-2015.jpg
  • Three black girlfriends walk past odd mannequins in a central London street. Striding in rhythm with the shop window models, the women are enjoying their shopping trip to Oxford Street where the opportunities for retail therapy are far and wide. One smiles at a joke and another carries a pink bag from a nearby store. The mannequins are stylish and in step.
    mannequins_window02-27-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Diagonal angle of Arsenal footballer and trolley, in Carnaby Street, London. In a coincidence of diagonal slants, we see the Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini on the field during a football game. His image appears in the shop window of sports brand Puma. Sharing the slant are a man pulling his luggage and a delivery man who pushes an empty trolley in front of him, the diagonals matching the scene.
    street_diagonal05-20-11-2014_1.jpg
  • King Henry VIII (8th) on a construction hoarding alongside a red standing pedestrian light in central London. Henry is seen in his most famous guise, as an obese middle-aged Tudor monarch, striking his famous pose symbolising power and wealth. He adorns the outer face of the hoarding at 55 St James's in London, a street in Westminster known more for 18th century opulence and style, rather than Tudor culture. His appearance is juxtaposed to a red pedestrian light that mimics the royal pose.
    history_hoarding02-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above. Seen parallel to a large retailer's front window, the world beyond is seen as a mirror image, duplicating left and right halves, to show the capital's financial and oldest district, as a double picture. A man walks along the street in the foreground while a bus passes-by on the background - duplicated as if there are two.
    city_symmetry10-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Angled passer-by reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance. The forms of two Londoners and their shadows pass near the windows of a corporate office foyer whose red seat is seen on the right. The view is angled to let the straight lines become diagonals that cross the photo, in the heart of the capital's financial centre, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
    city_people09-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Members of the royal household's carriage troop process through Ascot during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
    royal_ascot61-19-06-2013_1.jpg
  • Londoners seen reflected in multiple plate glass windows on a busy summer lunchtime, in the Square Mile, the capital's historic financial district. As the two women chat on this street corner, a young man passes-by, admiring one of the girls, a red London  bus continues its journey on its inner-city route past the buildings and a construction site hoarding. The large windows are located on the corner of Cannon Street and Walbrook, both ancient thoroughfares in this ancient city, dating back to before Roman occupation.
    reflected_londoners08-11-07-2013_1.jpg
  • Construction workmen with a 'Stop Go' sign to help traffic flow plus a coincidental 'no lights' sign at a closed crossing. Returning to the building site, the man walks back to the opened gates after stopping traffic, allowing a truck to leave the development and re-join local traffic. This visual pun is complete with a temporary sign that tells drivers that normal traffic lights are inoperative.
    no_lights02-16-05-2013_1.jpg
  • As two women walk away, a City businessman makes a call while reflected in a plate glass window. His double echoes his odd shape as seen in the high-cleaned pane of glass on a wide street called Bishopsgate in the City of London, the capital's financial centre called the Square Mile after its ancient Roman walled past that dates back to the first century.
    city_symmetry02-23-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial viewpoint, office workers come and go from a generic banking company. The symmetrical reflections are reproduced from a dividing line of plate glass in the capital's financial district, known as the City of London - or Square Mile. People come and go from this unidentified building entrance and exit while others stand still to smoke cigarettes under the shelter of the reflective ceiling. Shadows and light diverge towards the bottom. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_reflections18-13-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial viewpoint, office workers come and go from a generic banking company. The symmetrical reflections are reproduced from a dividing line of plate glass in the capital's financial district, known as the City of London - or Square Mile. People come and go from this unidentified building entrance and exit to smoke cigarettes under the shelter of the reflective ceiling. Shadows and light diverge towards the bottom. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_reflections12-13-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Chalk writing warns letter posters of a freshly-painted Royal Mail postal box in Dulwich Village, on 7th January 2019, in Southwark, London, UK.
    wet_postal_box-03-07-01-2019.jpg
  • Seen through the chequered squares of a shop window, a worker on a lunch break waits to be served on 8th September 2016, in the City of London, England UK. With hands on hips he patiently awaits service during a precious time away from his desk in the heart of the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans in the first century.
    city_people-15-08-09-2016.jpg
  • A discarded broken umbrella and a person walking past with a brolley shop bag in Charing Cross Road, central London. Coincidentally, the woman carries a shopping bag for a London branch of Hackett whose logo is a bowler hat and pair of crossed umbrellas, the sign of quality and Britishness. Someone has thrown the item on the ground, partially-collapsed but now forgotten - the remnant of a person's wet day in the capital. Transport continues too and the red London bus edges past in heavy traffic in the borough of Westminster.
    street_umbrella05-09-12-2015_1.jpg
  • An awkward-looking Christmas theme stag legs and shopper sitting on bench. Sitting on a lower bench with the street decoration above her head, the lady toys with her smartphoneas a pigeon flies past her head. The location is Covent Garden Piazza, now a central London landmark for the tourist industry to experience a twee side of the capital although this was once the city's prime veg and flower market going back to the post-Roman Saxon era.
    christmas_covent_garden04-03-12-2015...jpg
  • Matching coloured suitcase and shopping bag in a central London street. We look down to pavement level to see the matching colours of the baggage that coincidentally share the same pavement space on this midsummer afternoon in the capital. One his being held and the other is pulled along.
    city_people21-06-07-2015.jpg
  • Three young tourists boys carry identical tour rucksacks beneath blue banners across Regent Street, central London. From a low angle we look up to the lads making their way beneath the banners that hang across one of the capital's bust shopping streets. Their matching blue packs have perhaps been given to them by Study Tours, an organisation offering cheap student travel, guided student tours, weekend tours and day trips.
    city_people19-06-07-2015.jpg
  • Jogger runs past Nike shop window in central London. It is almost dark on this evening in the city and a runner passes the Nike shop in London's Covent Garden. Echoing the shop mannequin that has been placed carefully in a classic athlete's position, they both stride from left to right in the darkening street. Nike is one of the world's largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012). As of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide. In 2014 the brand alone was valued at $19 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses.
    nike_window03-19-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Yellow hosepipe streched across road with coincidental double-yellow lines. Watering an unseen feature in this urban landscape, we see the repetition of colour across the road and into the distance. The picture suggests a quirky urban humour - a coincidence of lines and color.
    yellow_hose02-18-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Red wedding dress on a mannequin stands in the window of couture retailer Vera Wang on Brook street, Mayfair, London. From the outside, we see a red pedestrian light echoing the theme of red and the name of the garment's designer at the top of the window. Vera Wang is a well-known contemporary bridal designer.
    red_dress09-03-04-2014.jpg
  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above. Seen parallel to a large retailer's front window, the world beyond is seen as a mirror image, duplicating left and right halves, to show the capital's financial and oldest district, as a double picture. A woman walks along the sreet carrying shopping bags before returning to her office desk, a funny comment on urban lives.
    city_symmetry08-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above. Seen parallel to a large retailer's front window, the world beyond is seen as a mirror image, duplicating left and right halves, to show the capital's financial and oldest district, as a double picture. A woman's legs are seen as disjointed limbs, a funny comment on urban lives.
    city_symmetry07-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Red and white spotted window display theme in Selfridges, a collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Yakoi Kusama whose red campaign theme accompanies a life size model of the artist. Yayoi Kusama (1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern.
    yakoi_kusama02-02-10-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Friends sheltering from April rains under a spotted umbrella walk past a hoarding featuring a leopard for a reopening Cartier shop in New Bond Street, one of two centres for the jewellery industry in the capital. The coincidental patterns on the leopard and the brolley seem comical. Cartier S.A., commonly known as Cartier is a French jeweller and watch manufacturer. The corporation carries the name of the Cartier family of jewellers whose control ended in 1964. Pierre Camille Cartier opened and managed the London Cartier store in 1902.
    leopard_spots03-27-04-2012.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial viewpoint, office workers come and go from a generic banking company. The symmetrical reflections are reproduced from a dividing line of plate glass in the capital's financial district, known as the City of London - or Square Mile. People come and go from this unidentified building entrance and exit while others stand still to smoke cigarettes under the shelter of the reflective ceiling. Shadows and light diverge towards the bottom. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_reflections04-13-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Londoners and squares on the glass screens at a bus stop in Kingston, on 7th November 2019, in London, England.
    kingston_journey-30-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A woman in blue walks past blue shutters and a broken National Lottery ticket dispenser on the Walworth Road, on 23rd March 2019, in London, England.
    walworth_road-02-23-03-2019.jpg
  • The symmetrical reflections of a womans legs who sits on a ledge next to shop windows, on 9th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
    symmetry_street-01-09-02-2017.jpg
  • A tourist is surrounded by a flock of greedy gulls hovering above on London's Southbank, opposite the Westminster parliament. Echoing the birds' wings, the young lady has an arm outstretched and she entices the birds to flock around her head and the avian creatures swarm excitedly in the air above. In the background is the expanse of Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament and the tall clock tower containing the Big Ben bell.
    lomdon_walk24-02-02-2016_1.jpg
  • A stripes theme of a London bus promoting the Philippines as a travel destination and reflective designs on the outside a Threadneedle Street building in the City of London. A Londoner walks along the street, passing the bus that's stopped at lights. The scene is at a slant and we see the Filipino countryside of rice terraces with striped rugs, products of that Asian country wanting to attract more foreign tourism from Europe.
    city_people22-02-11-2015_1.jpg
  • The texture of wall plaster echoed in the skin of a theatrical character in the San Marco shopping district of Venice, Italy. The unknown character appearing in a part during July 2015 is a disturbing, ugly old hag of a woman with bad teeth and an empty eye socket. Her loose skin is pallid and is echoed in the taut, crumbling nature of the plaster render.
    venice_108-23-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A street poster for an arts event echoes the lace texture of an umbrella being used against the sun in the San Marco district of Venice, Italy. We see the repetition of shapes and texture in the poster and the real brolly, a coincidence of pattern and points.
    venice_106-23-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A bus advert for the musical Billy Elliott drives past a construction hoarding featuring giant birds in flight spreading wings. As the bus swings right, turning away from this street corner near Leicester Square, we see the character Billy leaping in the air as, in the story of a working class boy during the 1980s minor's strike, becomes a student of ballet, he dances his way to a different future. The large birds behind echo his flight and outstretched arms.
    billy_elliott01-04-06-2015.jpg
  • Two small children sleep in their respective buggies as unseen parents prepare to cross a street in the City of London. We see the repetition of yellow bars and parallel lines from the childrens' boots and parking restriction lines on the kerb and road. The street is in the City of London, the capital's financial heart and the kids' parents have been walking along Cannon Street, stopping to wait for a green pedestrian light to cross the road.
    yellow_boots01-18-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Family eating in restaurant and and sleeping homeless man in central London doorway. With a theme of stripes that appear on the window and the walls of the doorway, we see the wealth of a modern society where a father can feed his family at the table - versus the poverty of the unfortunate, a man so desperate he has to sleep in the open air on a hot Spring day, his hand outstretched asking for passers-by to offer loose change in a crushed pot. The latest annual figures show that 6,437 people were seen rough sleeping in London in 2012-13, compared with 5,768 the previous year, a 13% rise year on year and an increase of 62% since 2010-11.
    homeless_stripes03-09-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Seen from the rear, an anonymous red-haired woman walks towards a business using red as its theme of frontage in north London. Dyed as bright as a prime colour to make her own personal fashion and style statement, she has made a choice to show her individuality and uniqueness.
    red_hair01-01-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Bird theme construction theme hoarding in central London. During the renovation of this large building on the western end of Leicester Square, developers have designed the hoarding to reflect pigeon population long residing in this quarter of inner London. Although the feeding of birds is nowadays discouraged, tourists still drop crumbs and so pigeons still thrive, though not in the previous numbers of years ago.
    bird_hoarding08-18-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Piles of rubbish bags awaiting collection by council refuse collectors in central London. As a mimic to the retail design in the background, we see the bags as a pile of contained shapes in Long Acre in London's Covent Garden. The refuse of emptied local litter bins by street sweepers, they are destined for recycling or landfill - the waste of modern city and developed western society, happy to offload its waste to unknown places.
    rubbish_bags02-10-12-2014_1.jpg
  • Woman pedestrian walks past bent railings in a London street. In a perfectly-timed picture, the lady strides past the damaged railings, twisted by a vehicle, perhaps - or by someone with strong tools. Her legs are perfectly aligned with the angle of bent steel uprights - now reshaped into diagonals. The street is underoing massive change due to the capital's Crossrail project where pedestrian disruption actually encourages people to walk a shorter route in the road, rather than the safer pavement.
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  • City street corner plate glass reflection of new generation red double-decker Routemaster London bus. A man walks with the bus behind, driving the other way. <br />
The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
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  • Fashion poster of a woman model with a riomantic rocky environment and nearby roadworks mess in a central London street. The scene is a dystopian myth, the reality of the ever-changing city and the fantasy of the fashion industry - an incongruous juxtaposition of beauty and industry.
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  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above. Seen parallel to a large retailer's front window, the world beyond is seen as a mirror image, duplicating left and right halves, to show the capital's financial and oldest district, as a double picture. Company mates walk along the street full of male bravado and testosterone, a funny comment on urban lives.
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  • Symmetrical reflections of a street woman, waiting for a City of London bus. Two men wearing matching purple tops approach, one looking in her direction, but they don't see the same perspective as the viewer. She listens to MP3 music before her bus arrives to take her northbound. The symmetry doubles the person's presence in the window of an office, on Bishopsgate (street) in what's called the Square Mile, the capital's financial heart, named after its ancient Roman walled past.
    woman_symmetry07-26-02-2014.jpg
  • A theme of locked and pedalled bikes on reflected lit street corner in the City of London. In a bright area of reflected sunlight, we see a wide section of a road junction near the 1980s Broadgate development where pedestrians and cyclists share the urban landscape. A bike is locked up against a tree; another at a distant pole while a third is being ridden towards the T-junction.
    bike_landscape02-26-02-2014.jpg
  • Angled smoker stands talking plus angled reflections in sheet glass of City office entrance. The man stands talking to an unseen associate, a cigarette held in the fingers of his right hand, near the windows of a corporate office foyer whose red seat is seen on the right. The view is angled to let the straight lines become diagonals that cross the photo, in the heart of the capital's financial centre, founded by the Romans in 43AD.
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  • A lady wearing a red dress with black polka dots locks her bike near a red public telephone kiosk. Bending over to attach the lock that might prevent a bike thief - common in the capital and other cities in the UK - she echoes the red of the phone box in Russel Street, the heart of London's theatreland. The red kiosk stands as an iconic piece of architecture that has graced Britain's towns and villages for 70-odd years. These K-series kiosks were largely designed in 1936 by the renowned designer Giles Gilbert Scott. With the increasing use of mobile phones the static phone boxes are still used in remote areas of the UK where mobile service is still patchy and in major towns and cities, their presence is becoming rarer.
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  • A man with a Union Jack rusksack walks past a matching discarded covered box left on the corner of construction hoarding plyboard in Trafalgar Square, London. With the backdrop of plyboard composite that acts as a construction screen on this busy pavement, the landscape is a juxtaposition of an incongruous feature in central London - a statement of coincidence and national quirkiness.
    plyboard_union_jack03-20-09-2013_1.jpg
  • Young woman of mixed race on walkway with the new Olympic kinetic artwork called the Shoal at Stratford. 'The Shoal' at the Stratford Centre, east London, is made up of around 100 titanium clad 'leaves' mounted between 15 and 19 metres high on metal posts. Worth £13.5m, the Shoal is part of The Stratford Town Centre Public Realm Project, designed and manufacturered using 3D technology.
    olympic_stratford35-22-05-2012.jpg
  • A young woman poses for a friend's camera outside the spotted shop window of Urban Outfitters in Oxford Street, central London, England. To contrast the spotty theme in the window we see instead a sign looming large in the scene that tells drivers on the road that the traffic lights on this junction are inoperative - but they also seem to tell us that spots are forbidden, disallowed in this urban landscape.
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  • A woman consumer carrying a spotty shopping bag passes a window theme of dots in the window of Etro on Old Bond Street, central London. Walking past the display of three mannequins wearing stylish clothing is a coincidental scene, a humerous moment in the life of this exclusive street in the capital known for fine couture and jewellery of luxury brands. The background is a video playing on a continuous loop alternately featuring spots and stripes.
    spotted_display01-15-02-2016_1.jpg
  • The coincidental relationship between a direct marketing company poster and a man checking messages outside in the rain on a central london street. While the man on the poster seemingly enjoys the thrill of receiving a package we also see an outsider on a rainy pavement also looking down, this time at his smartphone. It is a scene of repetition and similarities of posture and body language.
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  • White painted letter Ps on blue gates warning of constant parking in south London. The DIY Do-it-Yourself effort is effective and noticeable so that motorists don't leave their vehicles outside blocking the entrance to the urban property. In the very middle of the landscape is a padlock, securing steel doors together.
    PP_gates01-30-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Women with matching coloured pink possessions in a City of London street. In a scene of pinks, a tall, elegant young woman strides past carrying spotted bags in the crook of her elbow, with Ugg boots on her feet. To her left is s smaller, fatter woman in a pink winter coat who is about to struggle with another pink wheelie suitcase up some steps  near Liverpool Street station in the City of London.
    pink_theme02-30-11-2014_1.jpg
  • Workmen in hi-visibility clothing carry a blue wiring reel, coincidentally the same colour as a construction container. Walking along the street in the City of London, the capital's financial heart, they have turned a corner, around the deep blue-painted container on their works site, a construction site on the huge Crossrail project that is transforming London's deep underground rail system.
    city_workmen02-13-08-2014.jpg
  • City street corner plate glass reflection of red double-decker London bus. A double image of the bus, appears as a repetition as it passes the reflective glass, its deep red paintwork reproduced against the darker corners of more office buildings in the background. The British-made film The Inbetweeners is being advertised on its side during the week of the moviels opening in cinemas.
    city_windows04-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Young City businessmen in matching clothing use smartphones in warm sunshine outside an office building. The young professional on the left wears only a white shirt, minus his jacket, listening to his caller, enjoying the warmth from the sun while holding a small espresso. The male on the right is dressed in identical office clothing, walking while examining messages on his own phone. Away from their office indoors, they take the opportunity for a moment's privacy.
    city_people07-13-08-2014.jpg
  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
    city_spots02-15-04-2014.jpg
  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles (and shadows) on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
    window_spots13-10-04-2014.jpg
  • Woman cleaner pulling a vacuum hover behind her, walks past a fashion poster in central London. Roksanda Ilincic—the British designer known for her colourful, feminine wares with a sculptural twist—revealed today that, early next year, she’ll bow her first store at 9 Mount Street. Having studied Architecture and Applied Arts at university in Belgrade, her designs are soon to fill finished windows in Mayfair, central London.
    ilincic_women06-03-04-2014.jpg
  • A moment of reflected symmetry as a young man in a striped shirt makes a smartphone call in a busy London street. As other shopping pedestrians pass-by in late-afternoon sunshine on London's Long Acre (Street) the young man holds the phone with his right hand while holding himself around the chest with the left. Above his head is the London Underground sign of the Covent Garden station.
    symmetrical_people5-29-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Young couple eat outside the spotted shop window of Urban Outfitters in central London. To contrast the spotty theme in the window we see instead a sign looming large in the scene that tells drivers on the road that the traffic lights on this junction are inoperative - but they also seem to tell us that spots are forbidden, disallowed in this urban landscape.
    circles_window13-01-04-2011_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial viewpoint, office workers come and go from a generic banking company. The symmetrical reflections are reproduced from a dividing line of plate glass in the capital's financial district, known as the City of London - or Square Mile. People come and go from this unidentified building entrance and exit while others stand still to smoke cigarettes under the shelter of the reflective ceiling. Shadows and light diverge towards the bottom. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    city_reflections16-13-03-2013_1.jpg
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