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  • A low-tide landscape of poetry and sentences forming Graveyard of Lost Species, an boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the Souvenir, a 39-foot Thames bawley 1933 which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-16-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
    thames_beach01-25-11-2009_1_1.jpg
  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
    thames_beach02-25-11-2009_1_1.jpg
  • An elderly man sunbathes on a summer beach in the seaside resort of Paignton, England. The gentleman looks out across the stretch of sandy coast at low-tide and a square pool made by flooding high-tide sea water provides a natural place to swim when the sea is far out. The male in the foreground is seen in close-up and we see the expanse of his back covered in freckles. After many sunny hours beneath solar rays he is tanned but not burned. Nevertheless, he is at risk of the pigment in those freckles turning into melanomas, the cause of skin cancer. More than 10,000 people a year are developing the deadliest form of skin cancer as a result of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds. Cases of malignant melanoma rose by 650 (6.5 per cent) in a single year as a result of binge-tanning at home and abroad, according to Cancer Research UK.
    beach_freckles-31-08-2010_1.jpg
  • An abandoned coastal fishing boat lies askew in waters of Inverscaddle Bay, Ardgour, Scotland. On a bleak and grey summer evening, with low clouds descending on surrounding hills and mountains, we see the still waters of this Scottish lake lapping against the hull of this vessel that appears to have ended its days washed up on the beach. It is low-tide because this waterway connects to the wider sea of the Western Isles. Fisheries have always been an important sector of Scottish communities' lives so when there is an economic recession for example, the livelihoods of those employed on-board trawlers and boats like these are first hit.
    ardgour01-06-08-2010-1_1.jpg
  • Luzriminda T. Abello (42) collecting sea snails whilst walking through the mangrove forest at low-tide, Obo-ob, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Fishing communities in Bantayan reported severe damage to mangrove forests after typhon Haiyan but the government has yet to conduct an assessment of the impact.  Mangroves forests are critical in ensuring the sustainability of fish production. They serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for fish and are a habitat for a wide array of organisms. The salt-hardy trees also protect coastal areas from wave action and can prevent some of the inland damage associated with storm surges. Oxfam is working on various projects to support mangrove protection in Obo-ob.
    A0023796cc_1_1.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-07-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Storm damaged mangrove forests at low-tide, Obo-ob, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Fishing communities in Bantayan reported severe damage to mangrove forests after typhon Haiyan but the government has yet to conduct an assessment of the impact.  Mangroves forests are critical in ensuring the sustainability of fish production. They serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for fish and are a habitat for a wide array of organisms. The salt-hardy trees also protect coastal areas from wave action and can prevent some of the inland damage associated with storm surges. Oxfam is working on various projects to support mangrove protection in Obo-ob.
    A0023763cc_1_1.jpg
  • A city landscape showing looking westwards towards Tower Bridge and the river Thames at low-tide with the background of the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 22nd November 1991, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-22-11-1991.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The land to the right is Two tree Island, a marshland nature reservebetween Leigh and Canvey Island.
    estuary_walk-19-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of assorted boats and estuary vessels at low-tide at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-08-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Two elderly ladies walk along the promenade where a single yacht sits upright in low-tide estuary mud at Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-02-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Mangrove forests at low-tide, Obo-ob, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Fishing communities in Bantayan reported severe damage to mangrove forests after typhon Haiyan but the government has yet to conduct an assessment of the impact.  Mangroves forests are critical in ensuring the sustainability of fish production. They serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for fish and are a habitat for a wide array of organisms. The salt-hardy trees also protect coastal areas from wave action and can prevent some of the inland damage associated with storm surges. Oxfam is working on various projects to support mangrove protection in Obo-ob.
    A0023761cc_1_1.jpg
  • On a bright summer afternoon, a young spoiled girl shows-off by riding her favourite motorized Barbie trike along The Parade, the main promenade in the north Welsh seaside town of Llandudno, Wales. Wearing a bright pink helmet and travelling on the matching pink toy bike, she trundles along with the low-tide coast over her left shoulder. Barbie is a best-selling fashion doll launched in 1959 and produced by Mattel, Inc. The brand's merchandising reaches far and wide to countries and cultures around the world and this little girl seems to be the happiest on the beach, enjoying a generous present perhaps from a parent. She is the exact age that Mattel are targeting when they market these toys to accompany their dolls and accessories though the industry has come under fire for its controversial stereotyping of gender and subtle sexuality.
    barbie_girl05-18-1992_1.jpg
  • A detail of poetry and sentences forming Graveyard of Lost Species, a boat artwork created by by artists and commissioned by Arts Catalyst, at low-tide on the Thames estuary, at Leigh creek, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. The project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh, its decaying memory of what has changed or passed. The boat is the Souvenir, a 39-foot Thames bawley 1933 which once served the local fish trade in nearby Southend-on-Sea.
    estuary_walk-14-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Laden with loaves of bread, crusts and slices in supermarket bags, three local people are involved in a feeding frenzy for a herd or ‘eyrar’ (the collective noun)  of swans who gather impatiently for their turn under the pier at Southport, Cheshire. Dozens of these beautiful birds are also surrounded by a flocks of geese, ducks and pigeons in this wintry scene alongside the chilly low-tide waters of Marine Lake, under the ironwork of Marine Parade.
    southport_swans-19-12-1997_1.jpg
  • A young man sits on a sandbank beneath a sun brolley. With legs and feet protruding the man is in the middle of a sand maze constructed for the London Thames Festival, the annual celebration of all things related to London life and culture. The maze has been trodden by pairs of feet to create concentric circles that ultimately lead to the centre. Seen only at low-tide on the river's foreshore near Gabriel's Wharf, the stretch of fine, natural sandy beach is used by Londoners to sample a touch of seaside on fine summer days and was popular with Victorians before the arrivals of railways taking them to the coast. Nowadays the Thames is much cleaner after more stringent environment policies and the sand in some places is pure.
    beach_maze01-11-09-2010_1.jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. 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_corbis11-25-05-1997_1.jpg
  • Low tide mud and silt with old wharves on the River Neckinger that once flowed from south London into the Thames at Bermindsey and once the inspiration for the end scenes of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, on 19th June 1994, in Bermindsey, London, England. During subsequent redevelopment, the warves became expensive riverside apartments, the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    butlers_wharf-19-06-1994_1.jpg
  • A mudlarker looks for historical items lying in the mud and silt of the river Thames at low tide, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe, the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the Queens Dock, or Queens Quay, which was probably a Roman dock or small harbour. The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
    thames_landscape-01-30-10-2017.jpg
  • One of the warning signs alerting motorists of tidal dangers on the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-53-27-09-2017_1.jpg
  • A couple hug while looking out across the estuary of the River Dovey at low-tide, on 12th September 2018, in Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.
    aberdovey_couple-03-12-09-2018.jpg
  • With the dome of St Pauls Cathedral the south suspension chains of Tower Bridge in the distance, privately-owned boats of many kinds sit in the low-tide mud on the Thames river at the a river community Tower Bridge Moorings, on 14th September 2017, in London, England.
    tower_bridge-08-13-09-2017.jpg
  • A wide landscape of mudflats at low-tide at Leigh-on-sea, Essex. Mudflats and silted channels are seen in winter under a grey sky, looking towards the power station chimney on the Isle of Grain in Kent, several miles across the Thames where it opens out into the the English Channel after its journey from rural Gloucestershire and through the capital.
    leigh_on_sea05-06-12-2015_1.jpg
  • An early morning empty landscape showing Loch Scridain landscape near the Old Smithy, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Loch Scridain is a long sea loch, with a west-south west aspect, on the western, or Atlantic coastline of the island of Mull.
    isle_of_mull179-20-11-2011_1.jpg
  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
    england_beach05-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • A party of schoolchildren make their way along the foreshore on the southern bank of the Thames at Rotherhithe, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-28-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Disused wooden piles at Salen Pier, Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The mailboat service from Oban to Mull traditionally called at Salen pier en route to Tobermory and many people still have fond memories of the Lochinvar.  From 1964 the new ferries required bigger piers and Craignure was established as the main ferry terminus. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
    isle_of_mull308-21-11-2011_1.jpg
  • The blurred lights of Blackpool's south pier register as a circle in this time exposure. Reflected on the puddles in beach sand, we see the colours of this iron structure on England's north west coast. Work began to build the pier in 1892. It was constructed, at a total cost of £50,000. <br />
South Pier (originally known as Victoria Pier) is one of three piers in Blackpool, England. Located on South Promenade on the South Shore, the pier contains a number of amusement and adrenalin rides. It opens each year from March to November and is owned by Six Piers Limited.
    blackpool_pier-08-08-1992_1.jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Boats at low tide in Folkestone, England, United Kingdom. Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs and was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
    20190629_folkestone_004.jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Man walking along the riverfront beach at low tide on the River Thames with his metal detector, searching for artifacts. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank metal detector_A.jpg
  • A boy looking for shells in the water at low tide on Kizimkaze beach in the south of the island. Many locals sell shells as a way of supplementing their poor incomes. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_07_kizimkaze sunset_g.jpg
  • A boy looking for shells in the water at low tide on Kizimkaze beach in the south of the island. Many locals sell shells as a way of supplementing their poor incomes. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_07_kizimkaze sunset_f.jpg
  • A boy looking for shells in the water at low tide on Kizimkaze beach in the south of the island. Many locals sell shells as a way of supplementing their poor incomes. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_07_kizimkaze sunset_d.jpg
  • A boy looking for shells in the water at low tide on Kizimkaze beach in the south of the island. Many locals sell shells as a way of supplementing their poor incomes. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_07_kizimkaze sunset_b.jpg
  • An unrecognisable bather wearing a stripy costume bends over awkwardly to adjust his towel on the promenade pavement (sidewalk) at Minehead, Devon. The man's reddened posterior is pointed towards the viewer and his dachshund (sausage) pet dog stands still looking away to the right, towards unseen interest. A family of four stroll along the sandy beach during low tide. It is a hot afternoon but we only see a quiet scene at this busy resort.
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  • Low tide on the River Thames at Nine Elms Pier in Battersea on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Nine Elms is an area within Battersea in South West London. The area was formerly mainly industrial but is now becoming more residential and commercial in character.
    20200201_nine elms pier_001.jpg
  • Low tide on the River Thames at Nine Elms Pier in Battersea on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Nine Elms is an area within Battersea in South West London. The area was formerly mainly industrial but is now becoming more residential and commercial in character.
    20200201_nine elms pier_002.jpg
  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
    20200201_battersea bridge boats_001.jpg
  • Thick fog obscures an old section of a large ship which sits in the muddy banks at low tide in London making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as structures appear and disappear over the River Thames. Modern and old industrial and commercial architecture is releaved through a mist which lasted tthrough the entire day.
    fog ship river thames20111120_0115.jpg
  • Thick fog obscures an old section of a large ship which sits in the muddy banks at low tide in London making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as structures appear and disappear over the River Thames. Modern and old industrial and commercial architecture is releaved through a mist which lasted tthrough the entire day.
    fog ship river thames20111120_0113.jpg
  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_13_matemwe seaweed_c.jpg
  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_13_matemwe seaweed_b.jpg
  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_12_matemwe dawn seaweed_b.jpg
  • House boats and barges moored at low tide on the River Thames underneath Battersea Bridge on 1st February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Battersea Bridge is a five-span arch bridge with cast-iron girders and granite piers crossing the River Thames in London, England. It is situated on a sharp bend in the river, and links Battersea south of the river with Chelsea to the north.
    20200201_battersea bridge boats_002.jpg
  • A young boy stands at the edge of the River Thames on the beach at the Southbank, London, UK. At low tide the sand is revealed and people come to play in the sand or just laze about as if on a beach. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20130706_south bank boy on beach_A.jpg
  • Union Jack flag flies over the River Thames on a bright spring day looking towards St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London. Below the sandy beach is revealed as people enjoy the sand at low tide. London, UK.
    20130527union jack southbank beachB.jpg
  • Union Jack flag flies over the River Thames on a bright spring day looking towards St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London. Below the sandy beach is revealed as people enjoy the sand at low tide. London, UK.
    20130527union jack southbank beachA.jpg
  • Thick fog obscures an old section of a large ship which sits in the muddy banks at low tide in London making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as structures appear and disappear over the River Thames. Modern and old industrial and commercial architecture is releaved through a mist which lasted tthrough the entire day.
    fog ship river thames20111120_0114.jpg
  • Thick fog obscures an old section of a large ship which sits in the muddy banks at low tide in London making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as structures appear and disappear over the River Thames. Modern and old industrial and commercial architecture is releaved through a mist which lasted tthrough the entire day.
    fog ship river thames20111120_0112.jpg
  • Thick fog obscures an old section of a large ship which sits in the muddy banks at low tide in London making a peaceful yet eerie landscape atmosphere as structures appear and disappear over the River Thames. Modern and old industrial and commercial architecture is releaved through a mist which lasted tthrough the entire day.
    fog ship river thames20111120_0111.jpg
  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_12_matemwe dawn seaweed_h.jpg
  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
    2008_12_12_matemwe dawn seaweed_a.jpg
  • Opportunity FE 6 a Folkestone registered Fishing boats sit on the sand in a dry harbour entrance  due to the tide being out, waiting for the tide to come back in. Folkestone Harbour, Kent, United Kingdom.
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  • Fishing boats sit on the sand in a dry harbour due to the tide being out. Folkestone Harbour, Kent, United Kingdom.
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  • The village of Plockton on the 4th November 2018 in western Scotland in the United Kingdom. Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron.
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  • The village of Plockton on the 4th November 2018 in western Scotland in the United Kingdom. Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron.
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  • The village of Plockton on the 4th November 2018 in western Scotland in the United Kingdom. Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron.
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  • Fishing boats in the village of Plockton on the 4th November 2018 in western Scotland in the United Kingdom. Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron.
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  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A pleasure boat passes old riverside wharf timbers and the bank of the river Thames, before continuing under pedestrians on the Millennium Bridge, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe in the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the Queens Dock, or Queens Quay, which was probably a Roman dock or small harbour. The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
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  • A beachcomber trips on a rock while exploring the northern shore of Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Visitors to Weston-super-Mare walk over the causeway on the seaside resort's seafront. Two people below dip their feet in the warm water on the pool side of the walkway while others make their way along the long diagonal of the path that takes them across the beach towards hotels on the other side. Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in Somerset, England located on the Bristol Channel coast, 18 miles (29 km) south west of Bristol.
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  • Visitors to Weston-super-Mare walk over the causeway on the seaside resort's seafront. Two people below dip their feet in the warm water on the pool side of the walkway while others make their way along the long diagonal of the path that takes them across the beach towards hotels on the other side. Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in Somerset, England located on the Bristol Channel coast, 18 miles (29 km) south west of Bristol.
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  • The village of Plockton on the 4th November 2018 in western Scotland in the United Kingdom. Plockton is a village in the Highlands of Scotland in Lochalsh, Wester Ross with a population of 378. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron.
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  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, gulls sit on one of the river litter cages on the Thames flowing beneath the Millennium Bridge, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • In late afternoon Autumn sunshine and with the tall point of the Shard skyscraper in the distance, pedestrians walk over the Millennium Bridge on the River Thames, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A rather eccentric-looking man is seated on a bench on Blackpool's North Pier. This northern seaside resort in the north-west of England is diverse in its transient holiday population whose behaviour can be routinely odd. The pier has intricate cast ironwork seat backs dating from 1863 and the man sits with ankles crossed, wearing a suit and trilby hat on a warm summer's day. In the background we see families - parents and children - playing and walking on the beach at low-tide - the golden sands a much-visited aspect of Blackpool, the largest resort in the north of England and visited traditionally by working people from industrial towns and cities during the industrial revolution.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of the Thames estuary mud.<br />
During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, the jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their Corkscrew manoeuvre, a fly-past 100 feet (30m) off the ground. Children playing on the low-tide mud pause from digging holes with a bucket and spade as the aircraft make their way over boating and mudflats. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • On a wooden boardwalk that stretches across a sandy beach landscape, a young girl runs at full speed away from her mother and younger brother who walk along this walkway on the beach at Calais, France. It is low-tide, hazy winter sunshine makes soft shadows on the sand but there are few people out in the cold beyond except for a family in the surf approximately 200 yards away in the distance. Half-way back to the shore is a lone lifebelt attached to its pole in case of emergency. This near-deserted beach is an idyllic and tranquil place, allowing children to let off steam. Ffrom a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, two jets called the Synchro Pair of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their most dynamic manoeuvres, a high-speed  crossover called the ‘Cubans to Opposition Barrel Roll’ 100 feet (30m) off the ground at a combined closing speed of 700 knots airspeed. Spectators gather on a coastal groyne for a better view on the low-tide mud. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, two jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their Corkscrew manoeuvre, a fly-past 100 feet (30m) off the ground. Children playing on the low-tide mud pause from digging holes with a bucket and spade as the aircraft make their way over boating and mudflats. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Low tide at Eilean Donan castle on the 1st September 2016 in Dornie in Scotland in the United Kingdom. Eilean Donan castle is situated on Eilean Donan, a small tidal island where three lochs meet, Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh, in the western Highlands of Scotland.
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  • Plymouth City Council employees clean Devil's Point Pool at low tide, a man-made tidal pool on Plymouth Sound, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Gentle waves break on exposed volcanic rock at low tide on 23rd November 2020, on Playa Del Salado on La Graciosa island off Lanzarote, Spain. .
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  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
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  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
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  • La Corbiere Lighthouse, undergoing renovations, on 2nd September 2017 in Jersey on the Channel Islands, United Kingdom. La Corbière lighthouse is situated on a tidal island at the extreme south-westerly point of Jersey in St. Brelade. The name means a place where crows gather, deriving from the word corbîn meaning crow. Although seagulls are more common nowadays. Accessible at low tide.
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  • La Corbiere Lighthouse, undergoing renovations, on 2nd September 2017 in Jersey on the Channel Islands, United Kingdom. La Corbière lighthouse is situated on a tidal island at the extreme south-westerly point of Jersey in St. Brelade. The name means a place where crows gather, deriving from the word corbîn meaning crow. Although seagulls are more common nowadays. Accessible at low tide.
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  • Overlooking Portelet Bay, and Portelet Tower, on 2nd September 2017 in Jersey on the Channel Islands, United Kingdom. Portelet Tower is a British Martello tower built in 1808, on the tidal island of LÎle au Guerdain. Portelet Bay is in the parish of Saint Brélade, Jersey. The tower is often referred to as Janvrins tower or Janvrins Tomb. The site is only accessible at low tide.
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  • Dumped bicycles revealed at low tide on Ipswich Docks, Suffolk.
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  • Union Jack flag flies over the River Thames beach on the Southbank, London, UK. At low tide this sandy area becomes almost like a coastal gathering spot with people using the water's edge as if the seaside. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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