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Best Friends

50 images Created 25 Apr 2011

A young collection of dogs, their companions and the canine world they inhabit.

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  • 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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  • Two friends of Hispanic-descent have stopped on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida to talk with associates while sitting in their SUV 4x4 pick-up-style truck. Each have hold of two Dogo Argentino mastiff puppies, one of which is hanging his chin over through the open window of the vehicle, its long claws also very clearly seen and its freckly nose pointing towards the viewer. The other young animal is being propped up by the car's driver, its belly visible to anyone leaning inside the car. Both dogs are albino-coloured with floppy ears and pink eyes while the two healthy men are dark-skinned and in good-humour, one wearing a singlet vest and prominent silver necklace and the other topless so warm is this summer day.
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  • A pet Dogue de Bordeaux dog sits leaning out of the front passenger seat of a white courier van in central London. The Dogue de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Mastiff, French Mastiff or Bordeauxdog is a large Mastiff and one of the most ancient of French dog breeds.
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  • A rather rotund man wearing a flat cap, a checked shirt under braces that keep his ample trousers up above his fat tummy, affectionately tickled his pet dog, a Whippet ,who stands still with two paws on his master's large leg. It is a bright day on the beach at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Bathers are running on the sand in the background and the man and his dog are content to watch the world go by from their promenade bench. Their is a great deal of trust and love these two have for each other - the gentleman having brought his dog on holiday to the seaside with him, rather than leave him with friends or in kennels. The dog is healthy, lithe and obviously has great speed in those muscular legs, vastly different to the man, whose frame is heavy and slow.
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  • A middle-aged man, possibly in his late-fifties, holds the lead of his pet dog on a park bench in London England. Afternoon sun filters through nearby trees and the man is wearing a simple, plain white shirt. He sits crossed-legs on this warm afternoon gazing to a point in the distance looking lonely and hopeful of meeting someone else, or maybe of events in a long life. His dog is the man's best friend and companion and he guards him with a strong hand as a master should.
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  • Early morning lady jogger runs up start of Penine Way in Vale of Edale, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. .Edale is a valley in North Derbyshire, situated about 15 miles west of Sheffield, in the heart of the Peak District National Park. Edale valley is a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepards when tending their sheep on the hillsides. There are 5 main ones in Edale valley, Nether Booth, Ollerbooth, Upper Booth, Barber booth and Grindsbrook Booth of which the village called Edale is part. Edale village is in a lovely setting below Kinder Scout and is the start of the Pennine way, the first and longest footpath in England, opened in 1965.
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  • Shop owner's pet dog and bright furniture on sale in a London street.
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  • A Big Issue seller spreads out a blanket for her pet dog on pavement outside clothing shop Hobbs in central London.
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  • A pet Dalmatian dog stands near stony ground near Morte Point on the north Devon coast.
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  • Two Catholic nuns from the Asia region have walked from St Peter's Square in Vatican City, though Piazza Pio XII and are continuing down the wide street called Via della Conciliazione. Dressed in fine religious gowns complete with beautiful sashes around the waste they walk in step past a shop called Galleria Savelli that sells religious trinkets and other tourist ephemera. Sat basking in the sun is a dalmatian dog with its coat of dark spots and white skin as clean as the nuns' long dresses. Near the centre of the picture are the postcards of the Cisteen chapel and of Pope John Paul II who is seen waving at various Papal events. Also spotless is the Roman pavement which has been swept and cleaned very recently. In the distance is the magnificant Basilica di San Pietro from where the Pope addresses the weekly crowds. .
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  • Someone's pet spaniel is enjoying the smell of another dog's faeces that has been deposited on the pavement at Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland, northern England. Using its wet nose to test its acute sense of smell, the spaniel shows great curiosity in another animals crap that has been left by the other animal's owner, rather than be collected and placed in a dog poo receptacle. The irony is that there is graffiti on the sea wall of this seaside town. The mis-spelled words 'England For Ever' have been sprayed in aerosol on the wall and we see someone's idea of a utopian England and another's lowered standards where the fouling of a public pavement is seen as acceptable.
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  • Pet dog in house window.
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  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
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  • Yorkshire Terrier pet dog looks backwards as its young owners walk away both covered in square-patterned beach blanket.
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  • A pet poodle looks towards us in the same way that an RSPCA charity box does outside a seaside shop tourist.
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  • Half-price sign and terrier pet dog who looks up to the viewer, awaiting its owner who is inside shopping in a local supermarket.
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  • A pet dog is tied-up and waits for its owner who is inside a sandwich business during the lunchtime rush on Watling Street, the former Roman thoroughfare, in the City of London, (aka The Square Mile) the capital's financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Dog and owner pause near construction netting during walk near Piazza Michelangelo to view Florence skyline
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  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
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  • On its regular morning walk and wearing a matching red coat as its owner, a small dog exercises in Holmead Road in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. As the mutt looks at the camera, the man waits for him to stop sniffing around before moving on. The pair stand on crunchy gravel, a deterrent for would-be thieves who might be tempted to this small town where middle-class residents live. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European..
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  • A pet dog pees on the street corner on 4th May 2017, in London, England.
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  • Pet dogs wait with their owners to cross the street in front of a 4x4 Range Rover and near a Don't Dump sign. Turning to look at the viewer, the lighter shaded brown dog on unknown breed, is held on its leash as a woman pauses to check passing traffic outside the Royal Academy in London's Westminster. The sign actually refers to the dropping of litter in the capital's streets but echoes both the habit of owners to sometimes allowing their animals to foul the pavements - but also rhyming with the yellow number plate on the car top left.
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  • A Springer Spaniel and one other unknown breed of dog, use their senses of smell on a Brighton street corner.
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  • Cyclist precariously pedals with his running pet dog on lead in London street.
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  • A customer tries on a jacket with pet dog at British couturier Margaret Howell's flagship Wigmore Street London shop
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  • Seen from ground-level, a pair of feet in white trainers are seen large in the foreground on lush grass, one standing on a foot pump as it inflates a camping lilo air bed on a summer afternoon at the Trewethett Farm Caravan Club Site, Tintagel, Cornwall. Seen through the man's bare legs, the man's wife sits in front of the caravan's awning on a sun chair, cuddling the family pet dog. Caravanning is one the favourite leisure pastimes in Britain, its association, the elite Caravan Club, was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly 1 million members (caravanners, motor caravanners and trailer tenters) and has an  annual turnover of £86 million. On the open road, the caravan is as ridiculed and despised for its slowness and the width it occupies on narrow country lanes.
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  • A pet Chihuahua dog looks up to its owner whilest walking along the promenade of Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast.
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  • A young woman pauses on the street to wait for her young labrador puppy to carry on its walk through a Krakow suburb, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A dog owner and her small puppy walks through a south London street.
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  • A dog owner and her two pet pugs with coloured leads who refuse to go any further while crossing a small bridge over a narrow canal in Dorsoduro, a district in Venice, Italy.
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  • An elderly and eccentric couple sit on a park bench in the French Mediterranean resort of Juan-les-Pins near Antibes, with their own pet dog on a lead while watching an Afghan Hound which struts past in a showy manner. The shaggy Afghan's coat resembles the colour of the lady's own pet and the texture of her own coat. It is around mid-day and looks warm but the couple are dressed for deepest winter, oblivious to the warm sunshine. The hairy Afghan strides ceremoniously and with great style, while the small pooch on the peoples' lead looks nervous and uncomfortable. Juan-les-Pins is a town in the commune of Antibes, in the Alpes-Maritimes, in southeastern France, on the French Riviera (Côte d'Azur). .
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  • In a grass-covered car park, two ladies sit on garden chairs adorned with white table cloth. One pours champagne into a glass flute while her girlfriend reaches down to her beloved pet spaniel dog that eagerly licks at a fresh strawberry. The ladies are attending an international polo match between Great Britain and the USA in Windsor Great Park, near Windsor Castle, one of the Queen's official residences. There is a wicker picnic hamper on the grass too, probably containing the couples' lunch. The day is overcast, with threatening clouds behind the party but despite this, they are in a bubbly and excitable mood. Polo at Windsor is held annually and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • Children experiencing pre-holiday excitement in check-in areas at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.
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  • We see a male passenger from the waste down with a laptop computer in one hand and a Retriever puppy peering out from his owner's bag in the other, both human and pet are about to board a domestic flight from Chicago O'Hare airport. According to the American Transport Security Administration, taking pets into the aircraft cabin is permissable but the animal is required to be presented to the Security Officers at the checkpoint. it may also walk with its owner through the metal detector but not through the x-ray scanner. 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 dog owner carries his pet over a countryside stile, on 10th September 2018, near Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
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  • Dog stope to pee with owner looking on near purple construction hoarding and green taxi drivers' shelter.
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  • A family out in the snow enjoy a winter's day with their pet dog in a snowbound south London park.
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  • Commuters, jogger and and passers-by at the griffin boundary of the City of London limits on London Bridge.
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  • A small dog pees in the foorway of a religious shop in La Herradura on the Costa del Sol.
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  • A pet owner waits for her dog to finish peeing against a large ash  100 year-old mature tree in south London's Ruskin Park, Lambeth/Southwark.
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  • While on a leash, a pet dog wees against the base of a city tree in central London.
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  • A pet terrier dog walks in the gutter past the shadowy Ritz words on a street pillar.
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  • A small dogs pauses to pee against a pile of rubbish on a central London street.
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  • Street sweeper echoes Venice gondoleer on hoarding of  Credit Suisse-sponsored Canaletto exhibition, National Gallery..
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  • Back garden in an estate at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork,  Ireland, near the local Pfizer factory that manufactures Viagra.
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  • Wood pile, holly branch and disappearing pet dog in English woodland during wintry snows in north Somerset.
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  • In the foreground a local dog lies down in the afternoon heat on rutted ancient Roman flag stones while in the background tourists walk down the old highway in Pompeii, Italy. Next to his exhausted body, the grooved ruts carved by wooden wheels can still be seen next to a large stepping stone which let chariots ride over the stone yet allowed pedestrians to step over the road. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. It was completely buried during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. The volcano covered Pompeii under many metres of ash, and it was lost for over 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is a main tourist attraction of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pompeii has become a popular tourist destination; with approximately 2.5 million visitors a year, it is the most popular tourist attraction in Italy.
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  • A dog owner walks his pet in a wide landscape of late winter light of south London's Ruskin Park.
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  • Looking down from a person's height, we see two Pitbull dogs standing quietly on a south London street pavement. The two animals seem docile but are attached to leads held by an unknown owner. AT the dogs' feet in a stencilled sign that Lambeth, the local council has left at many locations of its streets where dog owners neglect to collect their pets' mess. Their idea was to paint the words "Bag it. Bin it" to help educate this unhygienic practice. Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act bans the breeding and sale or exchange of four kinds of dog - pit bull terriers, Japanese Tosas, the Dogo Argentinos, and the Fila Brasileiros. Under the act, a dog classed as being "dangerously out of control in a public place" can be destroyed. The owner can be fined and imprisoned for up to six months. If a dog injures someone, the owner can be jailed for up to two years.
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  • White emulsion paint has been smeared over the word Formerly in the window of a former Christian CD, books and software shop in central London, a victim of the UK recession.
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