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  • From a high viewpoint on Snow Hill, we see the green  'Long Walk' in the Royal Estate's Windsor Great Park. We look down the 3-mile straight road into the distance towards Windsor Castle in the summer shinshine during the equestrian 3-Day Event held annually on Her Majesty the Queens's property. Half-way down the lush avenue of Elm trees there are some horses and their riders either warming up before competition, or galloping across the landscape on a round against the clock. A few spectators have stopped to watch this part of the course but others are elsewhere at the dramatic water jumps. The Long Walk was commenced by Charles II from 1680-1685 by planting a double avenue of elm trees. The central carriage road was added by Queen Anne in 1710. Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. A vast area of Windsor Forest to the south of the castle became reserved by the King for personal hunting and also to supply the castle with wood, deer, boar and fish. Windsor Great Park (locally referred to simply as the Great Park) is a large deer park and Crown Estate of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. The park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century. Now largely open to the public, the parkland is a popular recreation area for residents of the western London suburbs.
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  • Badge of a 1927 Leyland Straight Eight car. The Heritage Motor Centre is home to the world’s largest collection of British Cars; it boasts nearly 300 cars in its collection which span the classic, vintage and veteran eras and is a must for car enthusiasts. Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, UK.
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  • An artwork showing a background of forest is seen in a London urban street. Tall, straight pine trees in rural woodland, the epitome of freshly scent appear to be an idyllic scene of empty, unsopilt nature. But in the bottom right corner we see the grey slabs of paving stones along with the shodows of anonymous people - passers-by who are walking past this incongruous landscape.
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  • Young Nepali boys adjust their spacing during a camp parade after recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need 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. 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.
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  • Seen from the roof of a Federal building, an aerial view of Broadway in New York City. The straightness of the road with traffic consisting of yellow taxi cabs, trucks and tour buses make their way southwards in Lower Manhattan. The Stars and Stripes flag is seen hanging on the side of a skyscraper and pedestrians walk along pavements (sidewalks) on the right. The lighter shade building in the middle is the Woolworth Building whose address is 233 Broadway. Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. The road now runs 13 mi (21 km) through Manhattan and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 18 mi (29 km) through other municipalities.
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  • Seen from the roof of a Federal building, an aerial view of Broadway in New York City. The straightness of the road with traffic consisting of yellow taxi cabs, trucks and tour buses make their way southwards in Lower Manhattan. The Stars and Stripes flag is seen hanging on the side of a skyscraper and pedestrians walk along pavements (sidewalks) on the right. The lighter shade building in the middle is the Woolworth Building whose address is 233 Broadway. Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. The road now runs 13 mi (21 km) through Manhattan and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 18 mi (29 km) through other municipalities.
    ariel_broadway01-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Empty Road with views of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, United States of America.
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  • The field of stelae of the outdoor Holocaust Memorial, a reminder of Jewish persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe during the second world war. U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's controversial design was chosen as a fitting tribute to the Jews that died before and during World War II as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate them. Eisenman's design is quite unique and has drawn both praise and criticism. Occupying about 205,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) of space near the Brandenburg Gate and just a short distance from where the ruins of Hitler's bunker is buried, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial is made up of 2,711 gray stone slabs that bear no markings, such as names or dates. It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill an estimated 11 million people.
    holocaust_memorial01-05-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Viewed from the top of the Arc de triumph in the centre of Paris, the French capital, we see tiny human figures going about their daily business, a hurried frenzy of activity at street level far below. This street is the Avenue des Champs Elysees, one of the most famous of European boulevards and the multi-lane road that stretches away into the distance – from l’Etoile to Place de la Concorde – is dissected with zebra crossings over which more pedestrians negotiate the Parisian traffic that has stopped on a red light. Otherwise small figures walk along the pavement (sidewalk) and some disappear into an underground Metro entrance.
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  • Near the end of the military runway at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk England, a road sign warns of low-flying aircraft near the base which is populated by the United States Air Force Refuelling Wing. Beneath the triangular sign is a locally made makeshift advertisement for CJ's, a nearby cafe. It is summer and the shrubs are green with white flowers to the side. The sign itself has become discoloured with green algae after being rained on over successive wet weather days. In the UK, the Highway Code for road-users lists this warning sign (always triangular) as "Low-flying aircraft or sudden aircraft noise." Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Traditional Nepalese painting in a gallery off the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. A painting can take up to 3 months to finish and often depicts religious symbols , gods and iconography, either Buddhist or Hindu.
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  • Traditional Nepalese painting in a gallery off the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. A painting can take up to 3 months to finish and often depicts religious symbols , gods and iconography, either Buddhist or Hindu.
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  • Traditional Nepalese mandala painting in a gallery off the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. A painting can take up to 3 months to finish and often depicts religious symbols , gods and iconography, either Buddhist or Hindu.
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  • Two motorcyclists ride down red dirt road through the forest interior with palms, Principe, Sao Tome and Principe<br />
Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
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  • Wallers from the South West England Dry Stone Walling Association (SWEDSWA) demonstrate dry stone wallers in Priddy, Somerset. Across the UK, there are over 150,000 miles of wall in a state of disrepair. The members of SWEDSWA try to do their bit to rebuild some of those across the South West of England, demonstrating and educating their trade skills to the general public at country events such as this - a sheep fair held annually since 1348.
    priddy_fair04-21-08-2013_1.jpg
  • Two construction workmen manhandle a new post on Bishopsgate (Street) in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Heaving a new electric cable traffic light pole into position, they work in an area of disruption in the capital's financial centre, known as the Square Mile. Blue wrappers protect new traffic light posts and barriers stop pedestrians from wandering into hazardous places.
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  • An American Airlines male flight attendant stands with his crew baggage against a window at Dallas Fort Worth airport, Texas. Dressed in the corporate airline uniform he stands erect with a hand in his pocket, his ID badge clipped to his jacket and a pin conveying his command of the Japanese language. A mesh screen partially obscures drab concrete buildings outside which can be seen through the glass. Dallas Fort Worth is the sixth busiest airport in the world transporting 59,064,360 passengers in 2005. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis48-10-11-2000_1.jpg
  • Traditional Nepalese mandala painting in a gallery off the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. A painting can take up to 3 months to finish and often depicts religious symbols , gods and iconography, either Buddhist or Hindu. Here the painter is painting with gold.
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  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
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  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
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  • Tourists standing on the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-2854.jpg
  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-0438.jpg
  • Tourists standing on the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-2850.jpg
  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-2840.jpg
  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-2838.jpg
  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
    UK-White-Cliffs-Dover-0443.jpg
  • The White Cliffs of Dover, Kent. One of the most famous and iconic landmarks of Britain. They face the straights of Dover between England and France. They are part of the North Downs formation and are mostly made up of chalk.
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  • From the top of The White Cliffs of Dover, looking down over Eastern Dock of the Port of Dover, where the cross channel port is situated with ferries departing here to go to Calais in France. Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.  Dover is the nearest port to France with just 34 kilometres 21 miles between them. It is one of the busiest ports in the world. As well as freight container ships it is also the main port for P&O and DFDS Seaways ferries.
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  • A 15 year-old boy blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset. The young lad keeps his legs straight to avoid scraping them along the woodland floor and stopping him before the end of the short ride. In the background are members of his family of varying ages, encouraging and laughing as he sweeps past on this bright summer afternoon.
    zip_wire01-21-08-2013_1_1.jpg
  • 180 degree distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
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  • Repetition and visual pun of stripes from zebra crossing and number 11 Routemaster bus. As a visual pun of stripes and straight parallel lines, the eleven and white bars of the zebra crossing can be seen as a coincidence, a street trick. 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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  • Flight Lieutenant Dan Simmons of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, zips up his g-pants before climbing into his Hawk jet. G-pants counteract the effects of high gravity stresses that jet-fighters impose on the human body, automatically inflating and squeezing blood back to the thorax and head when blood drains towards the legs. As he attaches the zipper, he rests his straight right leg on a retractable step which helps him and his ground crew engineers to gain access to the cockpit, high above the ground. Hanging from another part of his airplane is his life-vest which he will wear around his neck, whilst in flight. Flight Lieutenant Simmons wears heavy-duty black boots which are regulation footwear for flying personnel and dressed in his red flying suit that is famous around the world.
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  • Two employees of the Japanese aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi sit in a full-scale model of their MRJ at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated in different rows of this stylish small regional jet, they awkwardly stare expressionless, straight ahead and although the seats are real, the mock-up fuselage is in the middle of an exhibition hall. The MRJ is a next generation jetliner with 70 or 90 seat economy class configurations, the first regional jet to adopt composite materials for its wings and vertical fins on significant scale. The Paris Air Show expo is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry who demonstrate military and civilian aircraft equipment to interested customers.
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  • 180 degree distorted fish-eye lens cityscape on Broadway, Lower Manhattan, New York City. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show a skyline of the city of NYC, blue sky surrounded by tall skyscrapers in this modern metropolis. New York City, with a Census-estimated population of over 8.4 million in 2013, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York State.
    manhattan_fisheye01-24-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-02-22-07-2019.jpg
  • A family risk their safety near a larger cruiser while passing-by in a tiny motorised boat on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. The father and children float past the larger vessel that could badly damage their boat in a collision. The river is busy on Regatta weekend and vessels of all shapes and sizes occupy an otherwise narrow stretch of water in rural Oxfordshire. Parties and good-humour on-board the cruisers still means that river laws and good behaviour must be followed to avoid accidents. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi.
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  • A pensioner blurs across woodland during a home-made zip wire ride on private land in Somerset. The old but sprightly and active gentleman keeps his legs straight to avoid scraping them along the woodland floor and stopping him before the end of the short ride. In the background are members of his family of varying ages, encouraging and laughing as he sweeps past on this bright summer afternoon.
    zip_wire04-21-08-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street11-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street06-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street04-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan. The extreme nature of this specialist lens bends straight lines and translates them into curves to show this famous street symbolises the US economy. Wall Street is a 0.7 miles (1.1 km), eight-block-long, street running west to east from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan in the financial district of New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector or signifying New York-based financial interests. The NYSE is world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013. Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
    wall_street02-25-05-2014-2_1.jpg
  • An entire rank of Grenadier Guardsmen musicians are playing clarinets as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, one event in a series to mark her 50th year on the throne. The soldiers have formed a marching band guard that is making its way along the Mall, that broad avenue from Buckingham Palace. Focus is on one guardsman whose bearskin is slightly higher than his of his comrades. Their music sheets are pinned on specially adapted stands on the ends on their instruments making the job of marching in absolutely straight, regimented lines the more easier. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
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  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
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  • Wealthy friends enjoy bubbly and fizz during the annual Henley Regatta on a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers and English jackets and dresses, they are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    regatta_toffs01-03-07-1993.jpg
  • A young woman chats with a tall, athletic rower at the annual Henley Regatta, England. Fondling the man's rear, the girl smiles happily during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the upper-classes.
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  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team relaxes in hotel after their Bastille Day flypast over Paris. After arriving back on the ground and their Paris hotel, the British officer and his team has ended France's Bastille Day parade. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team gather in hotel after their Bastille Day flypast over Paris. After arriving back on the ground and their Paris hotel, the British officers meet wives and girlfriends after ending France's Bastille Day parade. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it.
    Red_Arrows463_RBA.jpg
  • Corporal Andrew Haynes and Senior Aircraftman Michael Owen load boxes packed with the possessions and kit belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows' pilots, Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, before travelling for winter training at Akrotiri in Cyprus. In the team's hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the two Suppliers lift the reinforced cardboard 'tri-pack' struggling to lift the weight from the ground. Corporal Haynes lifts with the correct technique: knees bent, straight back. The man on the right, has a bent back risking spinal injury. Some 80-plus members of the team will spend six weeks away from home. 23 tons of spares and personal effects travel ahead by ship with another 10 tons travelling on-board a C-130 transport aircraft. The Suppliers ensure possessions and spares are stored taking many weeks of meticulous planning.
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  • We see three friends close-up enjoying a festive party at Hamiltons pub in the City of London only a week before Christmas. It is a busy evening in the public house which is located near Liverpool Street mainline Station and they are in a humerous spirit just having fired off party streamers that have stuck to their clothes and faces. Two are wearing red and white santa claus hats but are stil in their work clothes. One is about to drink some of his pint of beer from a long, straight glass. The three look comical because of the streamers draped over their bodies and they are laughing and giggling at a joke that one has cracked. In the background a man is looking quizzically at the decorations.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • An elderly patient undergoes Hemodialysis (a blood purifying treatment.) in the Renal unit at St Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in Smithfield, The City of London, England. The woman is laying back in a comfortable armchair with her right arm flat on a cushion and the tubes that feeds her blood by vascular access from her body into the the dialyzer, a machine that filters the unpurified blood due to the patient's renal (kidney) failure. It is a bright room and many other machines are operating in this manner. Three quarters of the UK's 19,000 dialysis patients receive haemodialysis rather than Peritoneal dialysis, where a sterile solution containing minerals and glucose is run through a tube straight into the intestine.
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  • A curator hangs an unknown art canvas painting on a gallery wall in the Royal Academy (RA) for its 'The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century' exhibition, a collection of important works of art by Italian artists such as Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi. In the privacy of the closed gallery, the official from the RA is carefully aligning the artwork and ensuring it is straight and presentable days before the general public is allowed to see these renaissance art treasures. Polished wooden parquet flooring is protected by blocks that support the weight of each work of priceless art and crates containing other paintings imported from their Italian owners await opening and hanging themselves.
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  • An elderly patient recovers after Hemodialysis blood purifying treatment in the Renal unit at St Bartholomews (Barts) Hospital in the City of London, England. The woman is laying back in an NHS bed being attended to by a nurse after spending some hours  with her right arm flat on a cushion and the tubes that feeds her blood by vascular access from her body into the dialyzer, a machine that filters the unpurified blood due to the patient's renal (kidney) failure. It is a bright room and many other machines are operating in this manner. Three quarters of the UK's 19,000 dialysis patients receive haemodialysis rather than Peritoneal dialysis, where a sterile solution containing minerals and glucose is run through a tube straight into the intestine.
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  • The Chinese words Kung Hei Fat Choi or Happy New Year with cartoon characters outside Bank of China building, Hong Kong. A local businessman stops to seemingly talk with one of the boy characters that appear to be looking straight at the man, while pointing a wand to wish him well. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions.
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  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
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  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-26-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-24-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-20-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-22-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-23-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Beneath the sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger entitled The World Turned Upside Down, new graduates straight after their graduation ceremonies meet family and friends outside the London School of Economics LSE, on 22nd July 2019, in London, England. The World Turned Upside Down is a large political globe, four metres in diameter, with nation states and borders outlined but with the simple and revolutionary twist of being inverted. Most of the landmasses now lie in the ‘bottom’ hemisphere with the countries and cities re-labelled for this new orientation.
    LSE_graduates-03-22-07-2019.jpg
  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post07-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post05-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Girl runs past a leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    leaning_post02-13-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Messing about on a pedal water craft, a member of a local rowing club looks up to see where the cork to his opened champagne bottle will land on the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. During this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the wealthy upper-classes.
    henley_regatta03-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A couple mess about in a small rowing boat on the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Waving to friends on the nearest riverbank, they say a merry hello! during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the wealthy upper-classes.
    henley_regatta02b-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Crowds fill the River Thames during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. People on all kinds of water craft enjoy the summer's afternoon during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the wealthy upper-classes.
    henley_regatta01b-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Well-dressed and well-appointed English people pass-by on the River Thames during the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. In the foreground is a smart and highly-polished launch filled with a party of friends who motor past while to their port (left) a rowing boat with three men in blazers pass them going downstream. On the riverbank a garden marquee hosts another social gathering. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    henley_regatta01-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A group of four friends drink Champagne from glasses and plastic cups from beneath welcome shade during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers that denote their university and boat club, the four are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
    henley_blazer_men-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • A slightly comical scene of modern air travel as two lady passengers haul matching suitcases at the British Airways self-check-in kiosk at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A slightly comical scene of modern air travel as two lady passengers haul matching suitcases at the British Airways self-check-in kiosk at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. The self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
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  • A close-up detail of one of the British Airways' self-check-in kiosks in international check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. A welcome message reads 'Hello, please check in here' and to the right is a guide for cabin baggage size allowance. The self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1260-16-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A close-up detail of one of the British Airways' self-check-in kiosks in international check-in at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. A welcome message reads 'Hello, please check in here' and to the right is a guide for cabin baggage size allowance. The self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport1260-16-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • A scene of busy modern air travel as international passengers check-in at the British Airways Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Under the gaze of a giant eye that seems to be peering from out of a massive TV screen, the self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport626-15-07-2009_1.jpg
  • A scene of busy modern air travel as international passengers check-in at the British Airways Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Under the gaze of a giant eye that seems to be peering from out of a massive TV screen, the self-service kiosks that have been developed to allow customers to process their own ticketing on arrival at this aviation hub for British Airways. Once they've chosen their seat and printed a boarding pass, they can go straight to the Fast Bag Drop desk at the airport. There, baggage will be tagged by an agent and sent to the aircraft. At a cost of £4.3 billion, Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ...
    heathrow_airport626-15-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • Reflected and distorted vertical city landscape of a road junction with pedestrians seen through Frankfurt office building windows. Straight lines and verticals have been bent and distorted and street lines look weirdly confusing. Some pedestrians cross the roads, a car makes its way over a zebra crossing while other vehicles stop at a red light. There is also a sense of vertigo as we look way downwards to see daily life below at street level]
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  • A passer-by stands next to a menu from a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England. The words Dim Sum Daily are displayed in neon lights above the person's head, its translated message is written on the top in Chinese characters. In the clear window we can see rows of Peking duck. It is early evening and the street is full of colour from the artificial lighting that creates an inviting mood for those browsing the menus on offer in this lively part of London's West End. The pedestrian is partly silhouetted and she stands in profile looking straight ahead as if ignoring what is on offer.
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  • "Flight to Portugal." An eleven month-old child stands on a restaurant  table and is held by her mother whilst holidaying on the Algarve, southern Portugal. Caught with side-lit flash and ambient Mediterranean evening light, her with arms and fingers are outstretched and the balancing infant girl who is learning to stand on her own before attempting to walk, pretends to fly in mid-air, relishing a sense of space and freedom. We see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
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  • "Garden ballet." With hands outstretched, a ten month-old infant supports her weight on some garden chairs as she learns to stand on her own two feet. Without the strength in her legs, she loses her balance and her mother stands behind holding her daughter by the waist preventing her from falling over. It is a warm summer afternoon with both mother and child barefoot on the back garden patio and we see the experience of an adult encouraging a developing human being with the confidence to stand erect with back straight. This is from a documentary series of pictures about the first year of the photographer's first child Ella. Accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes, this work describes his wife Lynda's journey from expectant to actual motherhood and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
    corbis_ella18-20-04-1995_1.jpg
  • A walking couple rest on a bench at Morte Point on the North Devon Coast. Gazing out to see in the direction of South Wales straight ahead or out to the Atlantic to the right, they sit in peace on a calm summers day. Green grasses carpet the rocks on this clifftop location, a favourite of coastal trekkers and outdoor enthusiasts. Owned by the National Trust, Morte Point is a spectacular headland on the North Devon coast behind the village of Mortehoe near Woolacombe. The treacherous reefs and strong currents at the point, have caused numerous shipwrecks.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
    city_people11-13-02-2014.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
  • Leaning post and its own shadow on a brick wall in south London. In an urban landscape of angles and diagonals, we see the bent nature of vertical upright lines against the straight parallels of corugated wall sheeting, showing the random, off-true setting of the lamppost, in a side street in Southwark, south London.
    bent_lamppost01-30-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A US Navy electrician looks straight into the camera wearing a brown colour-coded uniform and beneath the cockpit of an EA-6B Prowler, a communications and intelligence-gathering patrol aircraft on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman, on patrol off Kuwait in the Persian Gulf enforcing the coalition's no-fly zone over Iraq. Behind him are the signs and emblems of the US Navy aircraft that is parked on the deck of this carrier so named after the US President who was in office from 1945 to 1953. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A very smart young man of afro-Caribbean descent wears a quintessentially English summer straw hat, cravat and pinstriped blazer during a hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. He stands with the hat shading his dark-skinned face from a sun, while chatting to unseen friends. He appears to be a student at an English university – Oxford or Cambridge – and is here to take in the social scene at this famous boating event on the River Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi.
    afro_society-03-07-1993_1.jpg
  • Collection of test and prototype racing cars belonging to ‘F1 In Schools’  National champions ‘Team Momentus’ from Gryphon school in Dorset.  The cars are pocket rockets, gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to  0.532m. per second.<br />
<br />
 Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools UK national champions including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta helicopters for aerodynamics  mentoring and  earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Nathan Riley, 17,  holding  the Team Momentus test car.<br />
The cars are pocket rockets: gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined  balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to 0.532m. per second.<br />
Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools  Uk national champions, including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta Helicopters for aerodynamics, mentoring and earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Qudsia Zohab, member of the Ethnography Department at the Afghan National Museum is single and a student studying literature at Kabul University. In the background is Shirazeden Saifi, Director of Restoration. <br />
<br />
Qudsia says: “The Taliban time was the black period of Afghanistan. It was a jail. I remember the burkha, it was heavy and suffocating. You can only see straight ahead and wearing it made you feel ashamed. One of our relatives didn’t wear the burkha, she was consequently beaten so badly (by the Taliban) that two days later she died - a young woman of only thirty-two. Many women wear burkhas because they are still under the control of their husbands but some because they don’t have to think about what clothes or make-up to wear!
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  • Urban bee keeping in Stockwell. Keeping bees is a growing hobby in London and the hives and apiaries can be found in back gardens and roof tops across the capital. Here trainee beekeers May-lynn and Chris are with their bee mentor Sebastian checking on the bees behind a green mesh fence. The fence will make the bees fly up and high over which keeps them from flying straight into the neighboring.
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  • The ferry from Landskrona arrives into Ven, Sweden,23rd of August 2016.Ven is a small island in the straight between Sweden and Denmark. It was the home of the astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century, given to him by the Dansih king of the time, Fredrik ll.
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  • Rows of rental bikes parked up for the night on Ven Hven, Sweden, 23rd of August. Ven is a popular tourist destination and push bikes are the prefered means of travel around the small island. Ven is a small island in the straight between Sweden and Denmark. It was the home of the astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century, given to him by the Dansih king of the time, Fredrik ll.
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  • The ferry arrives into Bäckviken on Ven from Lanskrona, Sweden, 23rd of August 2016. Ven is a small island in the straight between Sweden and Denmark. It was the home of the astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century, given to him by the Dansih king of the time, Fredrik ll.
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9576_1.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9572_1.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9569_1.jpg
  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
<br />
The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
    _MG_9567_1.jpg
  • Once the first net emptied it is put straight back into the water to continue trawling. Luke is a Folkestone based fisherman out trawling for a 12 hour night shift on a fishing trip in his boat Valentine FE20, Hythe Bay, the English Channel, United Kingdom.
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  • Once the first net emptied it is put straight back into the water to continue trawling. Luke is a Folkestone based fisherman out trawling for a 12 hour night shift on a fishing trip in his boat Valentine FE20, Hythe Bay, the English Channel, United Kingdom.
    UK-Fishing-Trawling-English-Channel-...jpg
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