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Best of 2021

40 images Created 6 Dec 2021

My year of pictures has been as rewarding visually as any I can remember. Affected and influenced by the long tail of Covid, of course, I've enjoyed so much more away from that continuing, sinister story but I've again picked up on how the pandemic has played out on Londoners' everyday.

Street pictures are how I explore and report, joke and rhyme - and although this final forty is merely a smattering of what 2021 has thrown my way, it does say a lot about this Englishman in his sixty-something year.

My only vewing advice is to scroll from start to finish because I've sequenced them with great mischief.

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  • Contractors with the hospitality furniture supplier 'Well Dressed Tables', load tall stacks of event chairs into the company lorry after a function at Lloyds of London in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 24th September 2021, in London, England.
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  • In the week that many more Londoners returned to their office workplaces after the Covid pandemic, the faces of women are seen around a junction in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th September 2021, in London, England.
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  • Seen reflected in the windscreen of a passing bus, a government NHS (National Heath Service) ad displays the face of a Covid patient, urging Londoners to stay at home and not to take risks or bend the rules during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, at Piccadilly Circus in the capital's West End, on 3rd February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A poster for musician and comedy entertainer Bill Bailey alongside an ad campaign urging drivers to slow down for the sake of the public's safety, on 24th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A Pomeranian toy dog is carried in its owner's day-pack and next to a furry coat hood while walking through a London street, on 8th April 2021, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrians pass-by the sculpture by J. Seward Johnson Jr, entitled 'Taxi' (1993) on John Carpenter Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 23rd November 2021, in London, England. 'Taxi' shows a city worker with a hand, hailing a cab. It’s one of 6 casts made by the American Artist and heir to Johnson & Johnson.
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  • As members of the public look with curiosity, a disorientated young red fox which runs in broad daylight through the churchyard at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 16th November 2021, in London, England. There are estimated to be 10,000 urban foxes in London but sightings in broad daylight are rare around the concrete office complexes of the capital's Square Mile.
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  • Park users feed the very common green Parakeets by hand, in Kensington Park, on 2nd April 2021, in London, England. According to the RSPB, the ring-necked, or rose-ringed, parakeet is the UK's most abundant naturalised parrot. It became established in the wild in the 1970s after captive birds escaped or were released. It is a well-known resident of the greater London area, roosting communally in large flocks. The population has been increasing steadily, though it remains concentrated in south-east England. The ring-necked parakeet's native range is a broad belt of arid tropical countryside stretching from west Africa across lowland India south of the Himalayas, where it is a common bird.
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  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, passengers walk through the concourse of Westminster station where social distance sign urge transport users to stay distanced as the country experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • A landscape of anachronism with modern-era chairs and a sign for a nearby antiques business in a rural English town, on 30th June 2021, in Aylsham, Norfolk, England.
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  • National Health Service (NHS) staff hand out information outside Marble Arch tube station, to encourage the public to go and get vaccinated at a nearby vaccination centre, on 11th August 2021, in London, England.
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  • A contractor struggles with unstable office locker furniture being removed from from a nearby building during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 10th February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city10-10-02-2021.jpg
  • A male doorman, an employee of a Regent Street retailer who is wearing a blowler hat and red cloak on his shoulders, flattens a doorway carpet before an event for special guests later the same day, on 16th November 2021, in London, England.
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  • On the day that it opens to the general public, Londoners experience the area outside 'Battersea Power Station' station, a new 3km twin-tunnel railway service extension on the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea via Nine Elms and which finished on schedule during the Covid pandemic, on 20th September 2021, in London, England. Battersea Power Station is a fast-growing residential development of new apartment complexes where Gilbert Scott's coal-fired power station fuelled the capital from 1929-1975.
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  • Members of the public are the first to use 'Battersea Power Station' station, a new 3km twin-tunnel railway service extension on the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea via Nine Elms and which finished on schedule during the Covid pandemic, on 20th September 2021, in London, England. Battersea Power Station is a fast-growing residential development of new apartment complexes where Gilbert Scott's coal-fired power station fuelled the capital from 1929-1975.
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  • British Asians ready themselves before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's financial and historic district, on 13th November 2021, in London, England. Alderman Vincent Keaveny has been elected as the 693rd Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Show dates back to the 13th century, when King John allowed the ancient City of London to appoint its own Mayor and each newly-elected mayor has been making the same annual journey through the streets for over 800 years.
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  • Waiting for a green light to cross the road, an adult man guides a young boy on his bike, alongsiode a construction industry warning sign, erected to warn pedestrians, but damaged so that it is seemingly bending over at the waist, on 8th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • In the week that many more Londoners returned to their office workplaces after the Covid pandemic, a construction worker carries materials next to a 'Man at Work' sign in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th September 2021, in London, England.
    city_people-23-08-09-2021.jpg
  • Days before the third Coronavirus lockdown ends, and non-essential retailers and shops re-open again, a man carries retail merchandising that features the face of Kloe Kardashian along Oxford Street, on 9th April 2021, in London, England.
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  • Two contractors with the PressOn company use teamwork expertise to attach an adhesive poster to the exterior of premises on Rathbone Place, on 12th July 2021, in London, England.
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  • The morning after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his government's Plan-B, a new set of Covid restrictions directed at slowing down the spread of the Omicron variant, city workers walk through the City of London, the capital's financial district, which has in recent months become much busier as workers returned to their offices after working from home, on 9th December 2021, in London, England. Plan-B includes the rule that workers should once again work from home if possible, effective from next Monday, 13th December.
    city_people-25-09-12-2021.jpg
  • In harsh reflected light, reflected from the glass of corporate office windows opposite the street, commuting Londoners make their way across the road towards the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 20th October 2021, in London, England.
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  • Pedestrians and sunlight of nearby architecture outside the Tate Modern art gallery at Bankside in Southwark, on 2nd December 2021, in London, England.
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  • An urban landscape of cycle lane, pavement and the security docks of Santander rental bikes on the Farringdon Road in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 24th June 2021, in London, England. The vertical line of a lamp post has merged with the trunk of a street tree. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images) CREDIT RICHARD BAKER.
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  • Tons of wasted slate is seen above the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
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  • As the number of Omicron Covid variant cases increase in the UK, and the government's Plan B restrictions continue which includes asking workers to work from home again, a terrace of empty chairs remain empty in the City, the capital's financial district, remains quieter than normal, on 14th December 2021, in London, England.
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  • A wild swimmer dives off a beach sea defence groyne into the cold tidal waters of the Thames Estuary, on 25th July 2021, in Whitstable, England.
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  • Seen from the ground, swimmers enjoy the waters of the Sky Pool, a 25 metres-long transparent water pool bridging two 10-storey residential towers 35 metres above the ground, the largest freestanding acrylic pool structure in the world at EcoWorld Ballymore’s new Embassy Gardens development in Nine Elms, on 3rd June 2021, in London, England.
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  • Londoners stand on the Thames river foreshore and admire the British Antarctic Survey's new polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough which is moored on the Thames at the Prime Meridian, Greenwich, during its short stay on show to the public, during the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow, on 28th October 2021, in London, England. The  £200m Attenborough is a Polar Class 4 icebreaker with state of the art  research equipment, a helipad, cranes, onboard laboratories, and other ocean-survey and sampling equipment.
    RSS_David_Attenborough-38-28-10-2021.jpg
  • Children wearing red tops experience the outdoors on coastal rocks and other members of the public roam the beach that overlooks the estuary, on 7th October 2021, in Portmadoc, Gwynedd, Wales.
    portmadoc_estuary-02-07-10-2021.jpg
  • The hads of female mannequins peer over the wrapped products that have been imported from China, sen in a clothing business on the Commercial Road in the East End, on 21st October 2021, in London, England.
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  • A shopkeeper fits and adjusts the hats on female mannequin heads in the window of his  hat business on the Commercial Road in the East End, on 21st October 2021, in London, England.
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  • A shiny used car bought and ordered from the Cinch app, is delivered to an address in south London, on 21st November 2021, in London, England.
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  • The puppet known as Little Amal continues her 8,000km journey from Turkey, across Europe, through Deptford market in South London and on to other UK cities, on 22nd October 2021, in London, England. 'Little Amal' is a 3.5 metre high character who represents a refugee girl fleeing conflict.
    little_amal-10-22-10-2021.jpg
  • Hours before the England football team play an historic game against Italy the first time since 1966 that the English national team have played in a major mens' international football final, thousands of mainly young supporters crowd without face coverings nor social distancing outside Leicester Square tube station, on 11th July 2021, in London, England.
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  • Scotland football supporters gather in the rain near London's Leicester Square before tonight's match between England and Scotland at Wembley, during the European Championships (postponed for a year because of the Covid pandemic), on 18th June 2021, in London, England. The two nations have traditionally been fierce sporting rivals and this is the first time that Scotland has qualified for the 'Euros' for 23 years.
    scotland_fans22-18-06-2021.jpg
  • Members of the 'Guild of Young Freemen' (in red) walk past The Worshipful Company of Plasterers' (in blue) along London Wall before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's financial and historic district, on 13th November 2021, in London, England. Alderman Vincent Keaveny has been elected as the 693rd Lord Mayor of the City of London. The Show dates back to the 13th century, when King John allowed the ancient City of London to appoint its own Mayor and each newly-elected mayor has been making the same annual journey through the streets for over 800 years.
    lord_mayors_show-25-13-11-2021.jpg
  • A last-minute photo for a young visitor before passing Extinction Rebellion Climate Change activists get too near, staff from the National Gallery cover copies of selected paintings, a temporary display of historical art placed outside the National Gallery to show passers-by what can be seen in their galleries, on 1st September 2021, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.
    trafalgar_art-18-01-09-2021.jpg
  • As the new Covid-19 variant called Omicron becomes evermore prevalent in the UK, Londoners and visitors to the capital walk past an image of Santa Claus in Trafalgar Square where German sausages are being cooked and sold three weeks before Christmas, on 29th November 2021, in London, England.
    west_end_chistmas-02-29-11-2021.jpg
  • A Christian man who frequents the West End carrying religious messages from the Bible, stands in front of a poster for Daniel Craig's last appearance as James Bond in the film 'Not a Day to Die', which has finally opened around the country, delayed after the Covid pandemic, on 12th October 2021, in London, England.
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