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Paris?Roubaix cycle race, France - Apr 2014
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Paris?Roubaix cycle race, France - Apr 2014
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'London in Puddles' photography series by Gavin Hammond, London, Britain - Jun 2012
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The Blue Posts pub, Soho
'London in Puddles' Photography Series by Gavin Hammond
What better way to view London - than as a reflection in its puddles!
An artist has taken the stereotypical idea that the capital is always wet and turned it into a stunning photographic art project.
Gavin Hammond has captured the city's landmarks by training his camera lens on the pavement.
The result is a quirky - and unsurprisingly watery - look at familiar sights.
The London resident got the good idea following some bad luck.
He explains: "I stumbled upon my first puddles image by accident. My bicycle had been stolen so I was walking into town along the Southbank for once rather than pedalling past it in a hurry.
"It began to rain as I approached the London Eye and a large flock of tourists were blocking my way. I hate to be in a crowd so I stared at my feet as I waited for them to pass. And lo! a beautiful reflection of one of the gondolas emerged from a puddle, like a vision from another world, a view of a parallel universe.
"Instantly, I was hooked. I am no longer rushing through London but appreciating every location I reach."
Gavin has had ample opportunity to shoot subjects for the project thanks to a particularly damp Spring.
"I have been taking these images for about two months - pretty much every day throughout this year's lovely wet spring," says Gavin. "So every morning, lunchtime and early evening I've been cycling all over London scouting out locations and lying, crouching, kneeling and standing upside down in the rain."
But lurking low down on pavements and in roads doesn't come without its own risks.
"I have been shouted at by white van drivers, swerved past by bus drivers, run down by bicycles, threatened by a drug dealer, moved on by a security guard, stared at by tourists, barked at by a...
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A cobbled street with shopfronts illuminated at twilight in the historic cathedral city of Lincoln (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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A Yeoman Warder taking an early morning walk around the White Tower at the Tower of London (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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Bevan and Shinwell miners .
Scenes at the Durham Miners Gala. Three men enjoying a bottle of beer in the street after the parade .
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Bevan and Shinwell miners .
Scenes at the Durham Miners Gala . Men and women chatting in the street
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Bevan and Shinwell miners .
Scenes at the Durham Miners Gala .A woman wearing a mask enjoying the festivities
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Bevan and Shinwell miners .
Scenes at the Durham Miners Gala . A couple enjoying the festivities
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USS William R. Rush (DD-714)
US Gearing-class Destroyer
1 February 1950 (FOTO:DUKAS/TOPFOTO)
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