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Photograph of a wire fence with a handmade sign saying 'Trees belong to the planet not you' with children's paintings of a tree, the planet, a bee, a dog and a rainbow on it, and a large wooden post to the left. Behind is an area with plants and trees and there is a paved area in front.

Trees belong to the planet not you
Photograph of an area of tarmac with soil and greenery behind. On the tarmac is a piece of brocolli and some chunks of watermelon are visible in the greenery.

Kitchen waste
Photograph of a green metal bin with a large branch of a tree poking out the top. The bin is on a grassy area, with hedges, a tree and large houses visible in the background.

Litter?
Photograph of a brick wall with rectangles of paint over the top in pale pink, peachy pink and purple, with a band of felted roof at the top and moss and weeds along the ground at the bottom.

Coverup
Photograph looking up at two hollyhocks with peach flowers, with blue sky with small clouds above it and a bit of wooden fence visible to the right of the frame.

Reaching for sunshine
Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, a single red rose above that, and double yellow painted lines above.

A single red rose
Photograph looking down on the top of a bin in a street, with an ashtray filled with cigarettes in the centre, and the black surround is covered in stickers from vape packets. The paved floor is visible around the edges behind.

Sign of the times
Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, a metal spoon face down to the left above that, and double yellow painted lines above.

A metal spoon
Photograph looking down at the curb at the side of a road, with pavement at the lower part of the frame, road above that and a wooden child's toy with a lower case letter 'a' in green on it, and road filling the top portion of the frame.

a
Photograph of a painted white wall with an old-fashioned white lantern on the wall to the left, with a warm lightbulb on. The lantern is tilted to the right and a long shadow from it extends to the right. At the bottom right are handwritten letters partially rubbed out, 'Kevin... a cu...

Wonky outside the pub
Photograph of a box wrapped in red wrapping paper with ornate gold plant pattern, cellotaped toether. It is teal-coloured upholstered armchair.

An unexpected delivery
Photograph of a Pokémon Card on the floor in front of a brick step. The card is upside down, green and has 'Basic Engergy, ENERGY, Basic Energy' written on it and a graphic of a leaf in the centre.

Basic Energy
Selective focus photograph of a dying piece of blossom caught in cobwebs, top right of the image, with out of focus shapes behind, and another piece of blossom lower down to the left.

Suspended
Photograph of a handwritten message on a page in a book, which says 'To Paul, 30.6.78, with love from Lisbet', behind to the left and out of focus is more of the book, with the title 'PICTURES ON A PAGE' just visible.

Dedication
Photograph looking down at a Queen of spades playing card on the floor, with a drain at the bottom of the frame, and paving and paint elements to the right.

The Queen of Clubs
Photograph of a brown, dead Christmas tree on a pavement, with a blue car to the right, houses with walls and hedges to the left and a pole with '20' on a sign and the white trunk of a silver birch behind.

Evicted
Photograph of a brick wall with a white recessed area cemented in at the top, with a scene of small mice and a large blue character having a tea party, and BRICKFLATS written underneath.

A small scene in a wall
Photograph of a blonde Barbie-style doll in a pink dress with a blue-haired and blue-tailed mermaid doll. Both are face down on a pavement, which has moss growing in long lines of cracks and the bottom of a metal pole visible at the top of the frame.

I’m pleased to say these were gone when I came back – hopefully found by the owner.
Photograph looking down at a pavement made from bricks in a pattern arrangement, with colourful pieces of large rectangular confetti scattered across it.

Supermarket celebration
Photograph of a white ceramic bowl filled with nuts with a flavoured coating on them. The peanut in the centre of the frame has 2 dots on the top half and the line across the middle makes it look a little like a small smiling face.

A face
Photograph of a child's plastic toy microscope on a brick wall with black railings and a bush to the right.

Closer inspection
Photograph looking down at a white painted metal radiator with white metro tiles above and part of an 'airforce' hand dryer at the top. The radiator is rusty and has a hole in it, presumably where the water has been blown onto it.

The hand dryer effect
Photograph of an empty poster-sized frame leaning against bags of rubbish, in front of a red post box with stickers on, on a pavement with road to the right, shops and a red plastic barrier in the distance, and shops and scaffolding with yellow protective covering on it to the left.

Empty
Photograph looking down at a paved pavement with a ripped blue Lilo and Stitch gift bag to the left, smashed brown glass bottle and a head of a white rose strewn across. Along the top of the frame a brick wall can be seen.

Valentine
Photograph of a bright green painted chest of drawers on a piece of grass in front of the brick wall at the side of a block of flats, with a yellow fire hydrant 'H' sign and a strip of white above it, in front is a wide pavement and painted double yellow lines on a corner section of road and behind to the right is a carpark with a white car and more flats.

Upcycled
Photograph of a thick security vest in dark blue with reflective tape and a badge saying 'SECURITY', on the floor in a paved passageway between two houses, leaning on a short fence. Part of a house can be seen to the right and there's a brick wall and hedge to the left.

Security
Photograph of an old wall and pavement with a piece of old pipe sticking up to the left with an old, worn 6 of spades card caught on it.

6 of spades
Photograph of a souvenir shop in london with two people browsing in front of displays of things such as fridge magnets. Above the canopy of the shop an old sign saying 'florist' is visible in old-fashioned writing. The paved floor is wet from rain, there's a sign indicating that bikes are not permitted to the left and to the right is a freestanding map and information board, above which can be seen the word 'VAPE' in yellow on the shop behind.

florist
Photograph of the side of a carpark with broken bits of a dismantled bed with lift-up and drawer storage dumped against a low brick wall. Behind are windows and doors in a brick building and in the foreground are painted lines.

Not so hidden storage
Photograph of a single black chair and small black table in a paved area with glass screening behind. In the background is a large glass contemporary building with 'PRET A MANGER' in illunminated white writing and a wall covered in plants behind. Part of a pine tree can be seen in the top left corner.

Table for one
Photograph of a brick building with green and blue bins with '67' in large white numbers on the front, dismantled office furniture and equipment including a PC tower neatly lined up on the pavement next to them, in front of a window with white painted metal bars on the front. To the left is black door with a metal '67', door knocker and letter box,

Office refit
Photograph of some sort of folded up wooden screen with a piece of A4 paper taped to it with 'FREE' hand written in large letters. It is leaning against a cream wall, in front of a red brick wall and with pavind slabs below.

FREE
Photograph of a column of steam coming from a rice cooker that is out of frame below. The steam is caught in sunlight coming through a window to the left, highlighting the column and cut off at angles to the top and bottom. In the background is a dark room, you can just about make out the wall and a door set back to the right.

A Sunday scene whilst cooking rice
Photograph of a vintage display cabinet made from wood and glass, with an ornate background interior, at the side of a street with a brick wall behind upon which is a sign that says 'ATTENTION,NO DUMPING or FLY TIPPING, OFFENDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED' with a sticker over the top saying 'DESTROY CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ESTROYS YOU'. To the right a noticeboard can be seen from the side with a white curtain rail leaning against it. Behind the wall there are houses and a tower block just visible and there is paved floor in the foreground with fallen leaves around the edges.

NO DUMPING or FLY TIPPING
Photograph looking down into a plant pot filled with frozen water, with lots of tiny air bubbles, mostly visible to the left where the light is hitting it, the right is more in shadow.

Microcosm
Photograph of a pink rose in bloom against a wire fence with blurred plants behind.

Winter bloom on a cold grey day
Photograph of a wide concrete path with a black bollard/sign in the centre, knocked off centre so the top leans to the left. Along the path is grass and bare trees as it is winter. The path leads off into the distance up a sligh hill.

Off-centre
Photograph of a white splatter of bird poo on a window, with a blurry green plant in the background.

A quiet act of revenge
Photograph of snowflakes falling, with selective focus on a single flake, other flakes out of focus around them and trees blurred behind.

Trying to catch snowflakes again
Photograph looking down on the edge of a pavement, with double yellow lines on the road to the right and the pavement and curb to the left. Part of the curb is missing and filled with bright green moss.

Green space
Photograph of a red tarmac pavement that has been patched up with a darker red colour and bright red tape-like areas that resemeble the shape of a ghost with square eyes. Sand is visible across the surface as it is by the beach.

A ghost
Photograph of a white door with a metal shutter closed over it, with an art deco-style tiled border around it, on a cream wall that has a black object wired above it to the left, a tiled area in front with broken tiles to the front right, a bit of lawn and buildings visible to the right of the frame.

A door I’d passed many times and only noticed this time.
Photograph looking down on a pavement upon which red cut flowers are lying discarded to the left and a toilet roll is to the right.

Love and waste
Photograph of a road through a forest, with a road sign warning of deer in the foreground to the left. Towards the centre of the frame, at the far end of the road, a white car is stopped as deer run across the road in front of it.

The warning sign comes to life
Photograph looking down on a public waste bin, the edges of which are covered in stickers from Vape packaging. In the centre is a metal grid for disposing of cigarettes, and the brick pavement can be seen below, around the edges of the frame.

So close yet so far
Photograph of a brick house with a tall chimney, surrounded by a wooden fence with trimmed trees. Above the trees, mounted on the low roof of a part of the house is a large deer-shaped Christmas light decoration, with its head missing.

Headless
Photograph of a red strip light on a black wall

Hello darkness my old friend
Photograph of a bricked-in window in a brick wall with contrasting coloured bricks, with brick ground in front and another brick wall with a recessed window and wall-mounted light to the right.

Bricked in
Photograph of an area at the bottom of som stairs, with a sign on the wall, a black office chair, a wooden chair and an upright piano with two comic eyes stuck on it.

An art school scene
Photograph looking down on a pink silicone muffin case in the shape of a heart, on a pavement that is lighter in colour where the heart is, and darker at the bottom of the frame. A brick wall with some sort of green lichen on it is visible in the top portion of the frame.

A silicone heart
Photograph taken through an upstairs window (the window frame is slightly visible out of focus at the bottom and right of the frame) of a wooden fence with concrete poles, steam coming up from the left-hand side. Behind the fence to the left is a garden with a lawn, part of a brick wall and another fence out of focus in the distance. On the right hand side of the fence is a leafy climbing plant.

The sun heats the frost on the fence and it floats away on the breeze
Photograph looking down at the ground at a very small plastic confetti 'E'. It's on wet ground, on some textured paving slabs, with fallen brown leaves around.

E
Photograph of a single shoe on the floor, on a diagonal yellow painted line, with a brick wall behind that has a drainpipe to the left and 2 partly visible signs to the top right.

Left behind
Photograph looking down at a long-stemmed pink rose on a wet pavement, with pink petals beneath and fallen brown leaves all around.

Lost love
Photograph looking down at the ground, the curb to the centre left of the frame has a piece missing and has been filled with grass. To the left is the road with a yellow painted line and to the right is a paved pavement.

Broken / Fixed
Photograph of a tiny lime green feather on a black woolen sleeve, with a hand in a fist holding the end of the sleeve out of focus behind.

I have no idea where this tiny green feather came from
Photograph of a droplet of water hanging off the end of a deep red acer leaf, with just the droplet in focus and the rest of the plant blurred around it.

Autumn rain
Photograph of a brick wall and filled-in doorway, all painted with light blue, with some rectangles painted in two shades of grey in the centre. At the bottom of the frame is a pavement with weeds and rubbish on it.

Miss-match
Photograph of a row of perfume bottles (including Eternity Moment and Tommy Girl) on a white sink-edge, with patterned tiles (floral on the top row) behind and yellow painted wall above.

A very fragrant pub loo
Photograph of a wooden post with a branch/large stick poked into a hole, with field, trees and cloudy sky behind.

Stuck
Photograph of an empty bottle with a pink label saying 'Lambrini' on a window ledge, next to a screwed up paper bag next to it and a window with shutters behind, in a brick wall.

A soho scene
Photograph of a scrap of paper with 'CENTRAL LINE TO BANK, NORTHER LINE TO EALING BROADWAY' on Elizabeth Line patterned seat fabric.

Found on the Elizabeth Line
Photograph of a flattened diary in a road with a grate with a puddle and Pret paper bag in the centre, with curb and pavement visible in the lower portion of the frame.

Diary
'Live, Laugh, Love' graffiti on the Battery Observation Post, nicknamed 'the Doll's House', Beacon Hill Fort, Harwich, Essex, UK

Live, Laugh, Love
A metal pole with light blue paint at the top, in front of a concrete wall with small square windows and corrugated texture, Harwich, Essex, UK

Blue
Photograph of grafitti saying 'SHADOWS SCREAM' on a whitewashed brick wall, lit by a torch, Harwich, Essex, UK

Shadows Scream
A broken tiled mantelpiece in a bare bricked wall, with bark on the floor and bookshelves with a few books to the left. Harwich, Essex, UK

Cracked
Photograph of a laminated sign saying 'The password is- COURAGE', on a concrete floor, attached to a metal railing. Harwich, Essex, UK

The password is-
Photograph of Pieseas Chippy, Harwich, Essex, UK with a yellow canopy in front of the shop with door and a wide window beneath, cars in the road in front and window and 'Fish & Chips' sign above.

Chuckle
Photograph looking down a deflated unicorn-shaped foil balloon in the gutter at the side of the road with the curb at the lower part of the frame.

A unicorn
Photograph in an underpass with steps leading up to the right in the centre, tiled walls either side and lights along the top of each.

No sure why but the scene appealed
Photograph of an old fashioned lantern on a pillar, with a broken orange cone on the top, with people walking past to the left, fence to the right and blue sky and clouds above.

Crowned
Photograph looking down on a bench (wooden seat and back with metal armrest), with two hardback books on it, 'How to Paint & Draw' and 'Book of British Birds'. Pavement is visible in the lower part of the frame and folidage behind.

More treasures on the bench
Photograph of an empty noticeboard on a wall with a street name 'MILL LANE' to the right, '...umental Masons, R. GWINNELL & SONS' on a sign above and windows and brick wall above that, with pavement and double yellow lines at the bottom of the frame.

Mill Lane
Photograph of a plastic garden chair embedded in mud with footprints to it, surrounded by grass and sailing yacht visible in the background. Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

Take a seat
Lost glasses on a fence, The Naze, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

Lost
Photograph of a plastic sign showing a black hand shape on a white background, within a red circle with a red line across it, with a yellow border around it. All on a dusty path with grass to the top left of the frame. Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

Don’t touch
Photograph looking up at a long, thin, bending roof with beams all painted white, with old fashioned lanterns hanging at intervals.

A pleasing roof
Photograph of a tarmac path with lawn either side, with bright pink liquid/paint spilt on two small grates in the foreground.

An attempt to minimise the mess
Photograph looking up at the ceiling in the Chinese Pagoda in Victoria Park, with green squares separated by pink lines around the edge, a geometric pattern metal barrier within that and red and pink lines of the roof within that.

Symmetry
Photograph of a quarter of a watermelon wrapped in cling film, left on a concrete wall with ivy and reddish pillars behind.

Forgotten
Photograph of a tiled pavement with a yellow rubber duck to the left and shadows of people walking by in the centre of the image.

Ducky
Photograph looking up a staircase with yellow tiled walls with metal handrails either side and glass top and side above, with metal structures and blue sky in the distance.

Colour Theory
Photograph of a broken fitness tracker watch on top of a bin (marked where people have extinguished cigarettes), with foliage in the background.

Unfit
Photograph looking down at a worn wooden bench with metal arm rest, upon which is a plastic bag with a book in it, and ‘Dangerous Boys’ in yellow text on a red background visible through the plastic.

Dangerous Boys on a bench
Photograph of black rectangles painted onto rusty metl fencing, with road to the lower left and blue sky and clouds above, with lampposts in the distance.

Redacted
Photograph of a white van parked at the side of a windy road with buildings behind. The van is decorated with colourful artificial flowers around the registration plate and inside on the dashboard.

All dressed up
Photograph of the seafront at Walton on the Naze, with wet sand in the foreground, a concrete slope to the left, a buoy on a chain in front of the rough sea, a seagull in the cloudy to the left and te pier visible in the distance to the right.

A seaside scene
Photograph of the front of a building across a wet road, with 'KINO AMUSEMENTS, WELCOME TO KINO AMUSEMENTS, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN' in yellow text on red backgrounds, with arcade games visible in the entrance. There's a grey sky above.

A bright scene on a grey day
Photograph of a green telephone connection box in front of a brick walled-building, with greasy hand smears on the side.

Smears
Photograph looking up at a former Debenhams building, a concrete building with the word 'DEBENHAMS' visible as dirt from around the signage that was there before, with a large window below, showing an open doorway in the right-hand pane, with a cloudy sky above.

A ghost
Photograph looking down at a wooden box filled with wooden chips, with plastic lettuces and carrots on top, with paving slabs visible at the top portion of the frame.

Remnants of a display
Photograph of two chairs, one upside down on top of the other, in front of a building with red door to the left, boarded up bag window to the left and paving slabs in the foreground.

Chair sculpture
Photograph of a pavement with a planter in the shape of a cactus to the right, in front of a wall and cars parked along the road to the left and into the distance.

Plant Planter
Photograph of a wasp at the edge of a hole by the entrance hatch to a green plastic compost bin.

Tiny but mighty
Photograph of red curly ribbon in a gutter at the side of the road, with pavement in the lower portion, a drain and yellow painted line towards the centre.

From a celebration
Photograph of a food pot with a pepper plant growing from it, labelled 'DEVIL'S BREATH', on top of a dustbin with plants behind.

Devil’s Breath
Photograph of a light blue wall with patches of another blue and peeled of plaster in the centre and a broken drainpipe to the right.

Blue on blue
Photograph of an adidas slide shoe on a pavement, with grass to the top right of the frame.

Slid
Photograph of a street with road in the foreground, a blue luggage bag on a pavement leaning against a wooden fence with buses behind.

Baggage

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