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Best of 2014

60 images Created 23 Dec 2014

Here are my best 60 images for 2014.

From the most recent then throughout my year including the forthcoming book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' to my street pictures in London and New York and travels in Britain and France.

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  • Bond Street guides holding orange-themed brolleys stand next to two construction site workmen.
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  • Woman pedestrian walks past bent railings in a London street.
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  • A young student protests outside parliament in Westminster, against spending cuts, tuition fees and student debt.
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  • Dancers working for the UK company Hunter, perform a choreographed dance routine to officially launch the brand's flagship new store in London's Regent Street. Twenty Eight dancers stopped shoppers with their production of 'Singin' in the Rain.'
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  • Dancers take a selfie before performing for the UK company Hunter perform a choreographed dance routine to officially launch the brand's flagship new store in London's Regent Street. Twenty Eight dancers stopped shoppers with their production of 'Singin' in the Rain.'
    hunter_event01-19-11-2014.jpg
  • A glam rock David Bowie tribute band perform the entire 'Ziggy Stardust' album at a private party in Wales.
    glam_rock04-25-10-2014.jpg
  • City of London (corporation) anti-butts litter campaign with burn holes from stubbed out cigarattes.
    smoking_campaign03-17-10-2014.jpg
  • Women shoppers carrying matching bags, walk on New Bond Street with a Dior construction hoarding behind.
    bond_st_hoarding02-17-10-2014.jpg
  • Kissing couple and aerial view of bus stop shadows and reflections.
    bus_stop03-17-10-2014.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank.
    fairground_ride28-16-09-2014.jpg
  • Repetition and visual pun of stripes from zebra crossing and number 11 Routemaster bus.
    routemaster_bus04-08-09-2014.jpg
  • Window cleaner abseilers lower themselves down the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    window_cleaners05-08-09-2014.jpg
  • The legs and feet of foreign students standing over Europe on a map of the world at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
    europe_map02-07-09-2014.jpg
  • A 19 year-old girl's hair blows across her face at the beach at Brighton, England.
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  • A businessman childminds in the City of London.
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  • A woman walks past a phone network supplier's ad for the Apple iPhone 5c
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  • 1980s architecture at the Broadgate City of London development and matching design of chequered shirt man.
    broadgate_architecture05-13-08-2014.jpg
  • City of London Griffin looks over Farringdon Road.
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  • Marking the centenary of the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, a blue light beam points up to gathering clouds over London. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations, London saw many such gestures to remember the millions killed in action at the beginning of the 20th century.
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  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Civray-sur-Esves, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers07-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Plaster Catholic idols in a corner of the church at Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France.
    french_church04-09-07-2014.jpg
  • The face of 'Ginevra de Benci' in the gardens of at Chateau de Clos Lucé, home to Leonardo da Vinci for the last 3 years of his life and now a celebration of his life and achievements, Amboise, France.
    da_vinci10-07-07-2014.jpg
  • Faded poster showing Caucasian French adults and children in Pons, Charente-Maritime, France.
    french_family01-04-07-2014.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
    ww2_ruin04-22-06-2014.jpg
  • Boy somersaults onto matt in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
    the_land248-18-06-2014.jpg
  • Girl swings on rope swing in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Playing with Fire' from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    the_land172-18-06-2014.jpg
  • Women consumers walk past a sunglasses shop featuring three hats suspended from the store window ceiling.
    hats_window11-17-06-2014.jpg
  • During the official visit by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese nationals show support to a Beijing-London political and economic relationship, by holding flags in the street outside the Ministry of Defence  on Whitehall, Westminster, London.
    china_protest06-17-06-2014.jpg
  • Black taxi cab drivers protest in Whitehall, central London, objecting to a new online booking and journey fare app called Uber. The app works out the cost of journeys and cab drivers say it is the same as using a taxi meter, which only black cabs are legally entitled to use. The London Taxi Driver Association (LTDA) also said part of the demonstration was about highlighting the length of training - between four and seven years - taxi drivers undergo before being licensed. During the protest roads were gridlocked around Parliament Square, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square in the capital's West End. .
    taxi_protest08-11-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
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FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
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  • Staircase in the Opera Garnier, Paris.
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  • Neon sign outside the Amour Hotel at 8 rue Navarin, 9th Arrondissement, Paris, France.
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  • Aerial view (from control tower) of airport ramp marshal and airliner wing at London Heathrow airport. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Aerial view (through control tower windows) showing expanse of airport land with airliners at London Heathrow.
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Religious edicola (aedicula votiva) shrine dedicated to the Madonna, Naples, Somma-Vesuviana, on the slopes of Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons, in their kitchen in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesuvius which last erupted in 1945. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius311-29-05-2014.jpg
  • American consumers pass the tall doorway of the East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
    manhattan_buildings10-25-05-2014.jpg
  • Visitors wearing identical shirts peer into plate glass window at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, killed at the locations of terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
    9_11_memorial16-25-05-2014.jpg
  • Distorted fish-eye lens view of George Washington statue and classical pillars of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street, Lower Manhattan,.
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  • USA - New York - Investigative Engineer Tim Lynch
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher physio training at the Sports Centre in the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.<br />
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From the chapter entitled 'The Law of Gravity' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    kelly_gallagher190-22-05-2014.jpg
  • Splashed paint over the anti-EU membership 'UK Independence Party's (UKIP) political billboard that shows leader Nigel Farage (with daubed Hitler moustache) and a gagged Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour party leader Ed Milliband - all silent against a bullying European Union, seen in East Dulwich, south London. The ad is displayed before European elections on 22nd May.
    ukip_poster09-17-05-2014.jpg
  • A neon Hello sign in the window of a corporate office entrance in central London.
    hello_sign01-01-05-2014.jpg
  • Roadworks signs below a fashion poster featuring a young woman about to cross a road in a utopian fantasy.
    oasis_poster02-16-04-2014.jpg
  • A leaping young boy walks with guardians past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles on exterior windows in the City of London.
    city_spots05-15-04-2014.jpg
  • A symmetrical scene of London city workers out walking and shopping at lunchtime, with tall office buildings rising above.
    city_symmetry09-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A lady gesticulates with her fingers, echoing the feathered wings of a bronze artwork's wings in the City of London. The ten-metre-tall bronze sculpture is by President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, commissioned by Hammerson in 2009. It is called ‘The City Wing’ and has been cast by Morris Singer Art Founders, reputedly the oldest fine art foundry in the world.
    city_art04-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin.
    nesting_swan30-09-04-2014.jpg
  • Red wedding dress on a mannequin stands in the window of couture retailer Vera Wang on Brook street, Mayfair, London.
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  • Woman cleaner pulling a vacuum hover behind her, walks past a fashion poster in central London.
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  • Two pet dogs wearing red coat stand outside a red-themed business in central London
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  • Silhouettes of Londoners walking through the Broadgate corporate offices development in the City of London. A person carries a shopping bag and others make their way towards a brighter area under the tall steel architecture with the backdrop of the Broadgate development within the ancient boundary of the capital's Square Mile, it's financial district founded by the Romans in AD43.
    broadgate_silhouettes15-04-03-2014.jpg
  • Symmetrical reflections of street people, waiting for a City of London bus.
    woman_symmetry07-26-02-2014.jpg
  • A workman tips broken up concrete on to a growing pile of construction rubble near an skyline illustration of the City of London.
    city_construction02-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A cyclist pedals through green reflected light shining from a City of London office building.
    city_road08-21-02-2014.jpg
  • A welathy man's hand hangs outside his shiny black limousine, holding a cigarette
    limo_cigarette01-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Valentine's Day balloons sold next to bouquets display in London florists.
    valentines_balloons02-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Coincidental timing of a Billy Elliot musical poster while a young skateboarder flies through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps.
    skateboarder_jump24-07-02-2014.jpg
  • Elderly man struggles up steep steps with the shadows of others on nearby wall.
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