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Street Photography

Street photography, as I understand it, is more about an approach than having to be strictly shot in the streets.  It's a wonderful combination of hard work, sensitivity, awareness, alertness and plain old good luck.

#87862  Large statue breathing fire at "Showtime", part of the London 2012 Festival of Arts to celebrate the London Olympics....
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#87829  Rufio Summers, singer, performing at "Showtime" (organised by Lyrix Organix), part of the London Festival of Arts to ...
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#87588  Police motorcyclists preceeded the racers and had fun with the crowds.  Olympics 2012.  Women's cycle road race passe...
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#87550  Demonstration of biking skills, Party in the Park, Woking, Surrey, 2012.
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#87423,  Clown on stilts, Party in the Park, Woking, Surrey, 2012.
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#061293  American section of a multi-cultural charity Fashion Show put on by students reflecting the wide cultural diversity ...
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#83510  Glass office block near some very old brick houses in South East London.
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#81253  Young visitor in the Pompidou Centre, Paris, 2004.
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#78672,  'Proverbial Sheep' by James Marsh on the side of a newsagent shop in New Romney, Kent.  These and many other murals ...
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#78665  Falling blossoms cover the garden
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#78605  Ros Davies dancing with "Nellie" while other members of The York Street Band play, York, March 1979.  Sarha Moore and...
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#77126,  The 'Nutters' Dance', Bacup, Lancashire,  1973.  On Easter Saturday every year the 'Coconut Dancers' gather at one b...
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#75998  Elegant bridge in a storm, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979.  John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Educati...
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#75933  Derelict telephone box, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979.  John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education ...
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#75841  Balancing on his "Grifter" bike to get a better view, Education Centre, Festival & Gala Day, Wester Hailes, Scotland,...
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#75821  Little lad joining in with the military band, Festival & Gala Day at the Education Centre, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1...
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#75769  Leaping from a rock.  One of the kids from Wester Hailes on a visit with Youth Workers to the beach near Dunbar, East...
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#75763  Kids from Wester Hailes taken by Youth Workers on a visit to Tantallon Castle North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, ...
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#74560,  Two young kids amazed at a Boston Terrior, Summerhill School 90th Anniversary celebrations, 2011.
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#73958,  Rainbow cloud above southern England.  The rainbow is seen when light reflects off tiny ice crystals inside the body...
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#73734,  "Scallop", a sculpture to celebrate Benjamin Britten by Maggi Hambling.  Made specifically for this site on the Suff...
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#72732  Lighting smokey bonfires in the grounds, Summerhill school, Leiston, Suffolk, UK. 1968.
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#72018  The Town Crier gives his details to a photographer from the local paper, annual carnival to raise money for charity, ...
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#72002  Clouds above southern England on a windy day.
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#71999  Cirrus clouds above southern England on a windy day.
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#71830  Trainers slung up over a telephone wire.
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#71408  Farmer with his working dog, Dunquin (in Gaelic, Dún Chaoin, meaning "Caon's stronghold"), on the tip of the Dingle P...
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#71407   Three kids and their home, Dunquin (in Irish, Dún Chaoin, meaning "Caon's stronghold"), on the tip of the Dingle Pen...
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#70875  The first verse from the poem, 'The Listeners', by Walter De la Mare on a Premier Inn, Guildford, Surrey.
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#70863  "The Surrey Scholar".  Sculpture by Allan Sly FRBS (www.allansly.co.uk) in the High Street, Guildford, Surrey.  Prese...
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#70436  Vanessa Redgrave & Tariq Ali with the letter to the American Ambassador, anti-Vietnam War demonstration from Trafalga...
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#70427  A young Richard Branson at the anti-Vietnam war demonstration march from Trafalgar Sq to Grosvenor Sq Sunday 17th Mar...
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#5619,  Colliery spoil tip above a Welsh village.
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#4825  Gyumri, Armenia,  Taking kids' photos, town Square, Leninakan s(now Gyumri), Armenia, 1990.
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#4619,  Street renamed and shown in Armenian and English close to The Lord Byron School, Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenia.  At...
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#125644,  People with baggage viewing artworks at the 'Falling Walls' exhibition, part of the 'Berliner Zeitgeist' project at...
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#125619.  Brexit: 'People's Vote' march, London, 19th October, 2019.
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#125155  Three-wheeler car with a fibreglass body caught fire while the owner was working on it, Tooting Bec, London.  1972.
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#125047  'Free Angela Davis' grafitti in England.  1971.  Angela Davis was a political activist and academic who was arrested...
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#124926  Hair, hair, everywhere during the 'Summer Eights', a week of rowing races for the Oxford University Colleges on the ...
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#124826  Trainers which have been lobbed up into a tree, Godalming, Surrey.
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#124660  An effigy of the British Prime Minister, Theresa May MP, created by Brexiteers (in favour of Brexit) who demonstrate...
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#124596,  Anti-Brexit march to Parliament Square, London, 23rd March 2019.  A million people of all ages marched demanding a ...
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#124541,  'Bollocks to Brexit' banner at the Pimlico Plumbers building seen by millions as their trains approach Waterloo sta...
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#124540,  Caricature of Theresa May, Prime Minister, at the anti-Brexit march to Parliament Square, London, 23rd March 2019. ...
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#124273  Wedding, Rye Town Hall, East Sussex, UK, 2018
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#122524,  Bicycle stands, designed by EMBT/RMJM to be an integral part of the landscape at the Scottish Parliament building (...
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#122212   Departure board at Woking station in the week before Christmas.  Southwest Trains renamed several stations with Chr...
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#12171,  Steelworks, Ebbw Vale, Wales, 1971
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#121692  Busker as 'Yoda' on the Southbank of the Thames, London, 2016.
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#121376  Tourists imitating, 'Sir John Betjeman' statue by Martin Jennings at St Pancras International railway station, Londo...
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120886  Selfie with the Airbus A380, Farnborough Air Show, 2016.
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#120873  Explosion, part of the Apache helicopter display at the Farnborough Air Show, 2016.
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Downpour immediately before the Warefest Music Festival began,  2016.
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#120147,  Winter footballers, Stoke Park, Guildford, Surrey, 1967
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#120067, One of the Sisters harvesting the grass for silage on the farm at Ladywell Convent, Godalming, the Motherhouse of an...
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#120001  Flooding at the bottom of the High Street,  Guildford, Surrey, 1968.
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#119856  Tourists photographing the very crooked Lombard Street, San Francisco.
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#119467,  The Army Rugby Premiership Cup Final 2016 which was won by  17 Port and Maritime Regiment Royal Logistic Corps who ...
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#115565  Couple of young girls posing for the camera, Dublin, Ireland.
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#115562  Platform erected on the side of church bell tower for renovation work, Dublin, 2014.
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#115383  Isle of Wight ferries pass each other. 2015.
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#115359,  ... and early on Christmas Day, the animals came out to play, Newlands Corner, Guildford, Surrey, 2014.
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#115270  Southbank, London
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#114804  Twins celebrating on one's Graduation Day.
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#114688,  "A Real Birmingham Family", bronze sculpture by Rachel Wearing, outside the new Birmingham Library.
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#071432   Fast car (an Austin Princess) on the Embankment, London, 1968.
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#62070  Old and new engineering.  The London Eye on the Southbank of the River Thames in London seen from Waterloo station at...
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#61936  Sailing boat urgently heading for port to avoid the gathering cumulus storm clouds at sea.
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#61320  Three charity shops and a discount store all in a row.  These shops usually spring up when a neighbourhood's income d...
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#059842  Portrait of two English as a Foreign Language students having fun, Sussex Downs FE College.
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#57727,  Melina Mercouri leading a demonstration in London against the Greek Colonels.  1969.
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#057721   A tour guide and her group visiting St Paul's Cathedral.  It was the days of mini-skirts but showing this much bare...
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#56472,  Enterprising busker inside a litter bin, Cambridge city centre, UK, 2009.
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#56471  Tourists taking photos of themselves at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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#051228,  Scale models behave exactly like full sized ships.  One man is "Captain" and gives orders to the other who controls...
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#50465  Sadie Lee talking to a student about the portrait of Zoe Wendle by Jason Brooks. State Secondary school visit to the ...
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#29179  Trying out the flight simulator on the Royal Navy stand, Surrey Skills Festival, Sandown Park
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#027686,  Outside wall featuring impressions of wood at the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood, Edinburgh.  Designe...
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#27336  Really bright billboard for 'The Economist' at a small local rail station in Surrey
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#26159  Students taking photos and a homeless man begging outside the Tate Modern, London.
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#25923,  Dancing The Tango in Guildford High Street to promote a new dance class in the town.
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#25905  Spoof directions sign made by local people.
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#24788   Very proud father, Graduation Celebrations for Roehampton, University of Surrey, at Guildford Cathedral.
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#024298  Tourists on a windy Wesminster Bridge, London.
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#024294  Live models used to promote Pretty Polly lingerie at Debenhams, Oxford St,
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#012505,  Bryntaf Cemetery, Aberfan, Glamorgan, South Wales, 1975.  The Aberfan disaster happened on 21st October 1966 when a...
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All photographs are © John Walmsley. All Rights reserved. Moral Rights asserted.
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