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Photograph of an empty notice area on a pillar at Tottenham Court Road station, with people walking in the background.

Void
Photograph floor-length window with a reflection of a white woman's legs and shoes, and an upside down Photo Booth style print with 4 images of 2 people posing for pictures

Looks like it was a good night
A container on freight train, zooming in to show a yellow triangle with 'SUPER HEAVY' written on it.

SUPER HEAVY
Photograph of a cloud of icing sugar catching the light, with a wooden floor and doorway blurred in the background.

Baking
Photograph of a brick wall with a black old fashioned lampost to the right and the lower part of an office chair with a blue seat to the left, on a sloped paved road.

I suspect some fun was had here.
Macro selective focus photograph of buds on an acer, wet in the rain.

Waking up
Photograph of a paved area with the legs of a concrete bench, with the seat area missing. Behind are plants on a hill.

No seats.
Photograph of a plant behind frosted glass.

Vague
Photograph of a grey wall with squares painted in black, very light blue, very light green and very light pink. A drainpipe can be seen to the right and shadows of wires go diagonally from the bottom left to top right corners.

Testing
Photograph across a road of hoarding to the left with a section of blue and white striped plastic and scaffolding visible behind, part of a white painted building to the right with a pillar made to look like over-sized bamboo, with a balcony just visible above and part of doorway to the right.

Pillars
Photograph of a pavement with a painted rectangle of green with a yellow border and 4 pink and blue flowers within. The paint and pavement is worn in places where people have walked across it.

Floral
Photograph looking down on a turning area for cars, with flower beds and trees and covered bus stops around the edges.

Something satisfying
Photograph of a plant growing out of a wall that has been painted blue with a cloud outline, green and plants at the bottom and a moon in the distance to the right. A barrier is visible at the top of the frame and a stop sign is to the right.

Breaking through
Photograph of a blue plastic tub filled with water and lots of orange goldfish gathering in the front right corner. Flowers can be seen in the background to the left.

Colour theory
Photograph of a white wall with brown shutters towards the top and pavement with a large rock, weeds and fallen blossom below. In the middle of the wall is a painted mural of 3 kittens sitting on grass with red flowers around them.

Hello, Kitties
Photograph of a yellow rubber duck on a metal pointed barrier that is painted yellow and black. Tokyo, Japan

Safe
Photograph of the side of a building with trees, hedge and large rocks in the border in front, and a red fire hydrant in front of that. A window in the wall has toys in clear plastic bags sitting in it, including a Hello Kitty plushy.

Hello, Kitty
Restaurant with plastic models of ice cream in a cone, a chef and waiting staff to advertise it. Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Ice cream, beer, ice cream. Photograph looking over hedges and a tree towards buildings with a large plastic ice cream cone to the left, a shop front with 3 statues of people in chef/serving outfits holding a large glass of beer and an ice cream cone on a tray in the centre and the side of a wooden building to the right.

Ice cream, beer, ice cream
Photograph of a concrete wall with the profile of steps that has been painted orange going upwards from the pavement to the top of the rough wall right to left, a smooth wall with horizontal lines along it above and behind, a blue sign with '2' on it to the left and a diagonal white painted line on the road in front indicating parking spaces.

Diagonals
Nishi Chaya District, Kanazawa, Ishikawa District, Japan. Photograph of a tree with yellow blossom in the sunlight, in a border in front of a beige wall with a pine tree in the shade to the left, a sign and red rimmed lantern to the right, with a pavement with bollards in front.

A highlight
Photograph of blossom flying off a cherry blossom tree (which is to the bottom left of the frame) with blue sky and clouds visible behind.

Hypnotic
Photograph of a pile of ice around the edges of a drain, in front of a concrete step.

Remains
Fallen cherry blossom and camellia flowers on the surface of a river in Kanazawa, Japan.

Kanazawa
Photograph of a yellow towel tied to a wooden fence that's painted red.

Found
Photograph of a purple patterened scarf tied to a wooden fence.

Found
Photograph of a tree with a 'no littering' sign on it, with a bag of rubbish left underneath it, which looks almost exactly like one of the symbols in the 'no littering' sign (which also shows a bottle and takeaway cup crossed out). The tree is in a cutout area of pavement and a road, building, cones and two people are visible behind.

A misunderstanding?
Photograph of a retainer/tooth alignment device on a concrete floor.

Alignment
Photograph looking across a street to a small pink house with window that look vaguely like a face, surrounded by white and green/grey buildings, a tree to the left and people walking past on the pavement.

A face. Sort of.
Photograph of two concrete planters filled with fake flowers - yellow on the left and red on the right. A paved pavement is in the foreground and metal fencing and hoarding with some grafitti is visible behind and buildings even further behind.

Yellow and red
Photograph of a wooden panel with a branch of pink cherry blossom sticking out of it.

Misplaced
Photograph of Japanese walls with trees, including a cherry blossom in full pink bloom and buildings behind, with stone lanterns and a stone torii gate in the gap between the walls, which is fenced off with orange cones and black and yellow poles, with arrows pointing to the right.

Go right
Photograph of edges of buildings with remnants of ivy growing on walls in a way that looks like drawings of trees. In the centre of the image is a more traditional looking Japanese building with a protruding window and some metal pipes.

Nature’s illustrations
Photograph of a pink wall with three narrow rectangular openings, through which leaves are poking out, particularly the one nearest the left.

Emerging
Photograph of a clear umbrella hooked onto a pole (which is brown with yellow and black stripes on it). The umbrella has filled with water that has gone mouldy. A white painted wall is visible behind and to the left.

Some time has passed
Photograph of a wall with mildew/markings that resemble screens painted with an image of forests. There is a filled-in crack in the centre and a bit of grass to the lower left.

A forest
Photograph of fallen red flowers on the ground with roots and grass visible too.

Carpet
Photograph showing a detail of a wooden door with areas eaten by woodworm to the left and a small portion of metal handle to the right.

Carvings
Photograph of barriers with pink plastic rabbit characters at the ends of them (centre of the image). There are sandbags to their right, the ground beneath is cracked beneath and parking spaces and buildings are visible behind.

Safety rabbits
Photograph of two objects wrapped in orange ribbon on a road with red and white striped pavement visible across the other side. The object on the left is something in a white sack and the object on the right is a white plastic bottle with curtain poles coming out of the top.

Do not park your cars here
Photograph of buildings in Tokyo as the sun sets. The sun is shining on a sign with an image of a sun and waves and Japanese writing on it. The buildings around this are darker and blue with the fading light.

The sun
Photograph of a brick wall with a large crack and missing bricks to the left and a small plant peeking out near the top.

Impact
Photograph of a brown plastic shopping basket on a white surface with a keyring in the shape of a lifesize egg with a face of a person with glasses on it. Behind is a sign in Japanese and shelves with products on behind a reinforced window.

Egg
Photograph of paving slabs, all of which are plain except one lower centre that is etched with images of leaves.

Detail
Photograph of snowflakes falling outside a window, with out of focus garden behind and the edge of a brick wall to the left, the dark interior around the edges.

March
Photograph of a wall with what look looks like a filled in window that has been painted to look like a window and now the plaster and paint is flaking off. There is a line of bricks or tiles to the left.

Faux
Photograph of Magnolia tree just starting to blossom, in sunlight but surrounded by shadow and buildings in Cologne, Germany, with bikes around the base and a motorbike to the left.

A delightful tree
Photograph of a pavement with a utility cover with steam emerging from it and a pole with blue and white stripes on it. Cologne, Germany.

Next to the perfume shop
Photograph of seven pigeons eating a bread rool, on a paved area. Cologne, Germany.

Lunch
Photograph of a grey wall with a climbing plant with brown leaves in winter with an old fashioned lantern and two barred windows to the left, a peach wall with arched window and door to the right, wooden palettes leaning against them and a cage/trolley with red plastic sides by the door.

Another winter wall
Photograph of a pink bike leaning against a wall with tendrils of climbing plants in winter, with pavement in the foreground and tree trunks behind. Munich, Germany

Winter wall
Photograph of colourful confetti between cobble stones, Munich, Germany.

Signs of a party, Cologne, Germany
Photograph of colourful confetti on snow. Sankt Niklaus, Switzerland

Signs of a party, St Niklaus, Switzerland
Photograph looking down at a cobbled street with dropped grapes on it, some of which have been squashed.

Squashed
Photograph of a pink, brown and cream scarf tied to a thin metal temporary fence and blowing in the windw. Behind is a cobbled pavement and a skip out of focus in the background.

Found
Photograph of a child's ride with circus and clown decoration with a seat covered by a blue plastic sheet. The ride is positioned by an alcove in an old wall.

No fun today
Photograph looking across a road with pedestrian crossing towards a red wall with neat hedge above and a cream coloured building behind. A tshirt is hanging from a coathanger attached to a lantern on the wall of the bulding, which looks a little like a person.

Double take
Grey pipes on Ondarreta Beach, Donostia San Sebastian, Basque Country, with footprints and markings around them.

Lines in the sand
Photograph of a red armchair with a seat that is ripped with the foam visible, it appears to have been fixed with tape many times in the past. The chair is on the roadside between bins and bottle recycling facilities, with ornate buildings visible on the opposite side of the road.

Once loved
Photograph looking down Salbeko Zubia road, Bilbao, Basque Country. A sign to the right says 'Reboot and select... Insert Boot Media'.

Accidental art
Photograph of a building with windows that look a bit balcony-like to the left, an ornate lantern to the right with yellow and blue bunting bunched up around it and an ornate sign saying 'Calle Carniceria Vieja' at the bottom of the frame.

Leftovers
Photograph of a mildewy surfboard in a hedge at the edge of a field in Essex, with a tree in front and the field, trees and sky visible in the background.

Lost
Photograh of the side of a building that has been partially knocked down, showing where stairs and doors were, and walls painted (top to bottom) light blue, slightly different shade of light blue, pink and green.

Cross section
Photograph of a blue plastic chair on a concrete floor with a green shutter behind, a metal structure to the right and large leaves out of focus in the foreground to the right.

Blue and green
Photograph of a window with metal bars on it - behind it a dressmaker's dummy can be seen in silhouette with a staircase behind and in the foreground is a concrete wall and floor with some dirt on it and a wooden pillar with concrete base to the left.

Many stories could be written here
Photograph of an ornate pillar - red with a dragon snaking around it, a koi and waves at the bottom and cling film wrapped around the lower part. Bollards are around the bottom - red and yellow striped to the left and shiny metal to the centre. A wall with posters on is behind and a street can be seen to the right.

Protected
Photograph of a small leafy plant emerging from a gap in a wall - to the left is painted cream and to the right is a slightly darker shade. Dappled light and shade goes across the wall.

Emerging
Photograph of a pole with circular stickers stuck on it (the stickers were proof of paying for entry to a location) and a box with buttons and an arrow pointing up, to press to cross the road). A white van is visible out of focus behind.

Proof of purchase
Photograph of a wall with colourful grafitti, two window openings with leafy plants with orange flower on emerging from them, and a grey plastic pipe between them.

An explosion of colour
Photograph of a pavement with a blue shuttered door to the left, plant with pink flowers in a white planter in the centre, red fire hydrant to the right, red and white stripes painted on the curb and painted white lines of a pedestrian crossing in the foreground.

Simply appealing
Photograph of burst balloons and string mixed up with leaves on the floor and covered in large ants.

A closer look
Photograph of a yellow warning sign saying 'Caution wet floor, SLIPPERY', with two kittens (one barely visible) sheltering underneath

Slippery
Photograph of a pile of colourful lights on strings that are broken and tangled, on a lawn at the side of the road, with a scooter in the background.

Tangled
Photograph of a white plastic bag with the handles tied together, indicating it is full of rubbish, covered in very large ants, left on soil with fallen leaves and grass around.

Lunch
Photograph of blue and pink plastic string in a gutter at the side of the road.

Blue and pink
Photograph of a building underconstruction - the spaces for windows look like a pair of rectangular eyes and wide open mouth.

Hey!
Photograph looking down at a squashed dead scorpion on a concrete floor.

A most unsettling scene
Photograph of a pink plastic garden chair in the entrance of a glass-fronted office, with pink and blue tiles on what appears to be a driveway in the foreground.

Pink
Hornbills sitting on and near a metal and wood fence at the side of a paved path, surrounded by trees and plants. More hornbills can be seen to the left by a lamppost and bins.

The hang-out
Photograph of a building with blue hoarding in front and a small blue chair, with a statue of a semi-naked couple to the right behind the hoarding, with one figure lifting the other, who has their arms wide as if flying. In the foreground there are scooters to the right on the pavement and the windscreen of a bus to the left.

The lift
Photograph looking down at the floor with a pink-edged white flower against a paving slab and three fallen dead leaves around.

Candy coloured
Photograph showing fluorescent strip lights in the top right with raindrops all around and a dark sky to the right.

Caught in the rain
Interior of a replica Catholic church with organ and Jesus on the cross at the top left of the frame, with peole visible below, pews leading back to an advertising A-frame board in the foreground with 'Sun World, Ba Na Hills, (text in Vietnamese), Beer Plaza Restaurant, Taiga Restaurant' and an arrow pointing right.

Advertising
Photograph of yellow leaves on a concrete floor next to a yellow wall, almost looking as though the leaves have emerged from the wall.

Fallen leaves
Photograph of a wet road with a nón lá (leaf hat) lying upside down and squashed towards the left of the frame.

Dropped
Photograph of a yellow wall with green decoration towards the top, with pink and green plastic ribbons tied to it and hanging down slightly tangled.

Remnants
Photograph of a broken ceramic bowl with ornate blue and white pattern, with part of a ceramic toast wrack with scorch marks on it, all within a concrete block.

Broken and scorched
Photograph of a yellow building with shuttered doors and windows, a red bicycle and a large metal ornate lamp post lying down across the entrance way.

Trip hazard
A small red plastic chair by a door, on a train.

Train seating
Photograph of a wall made with hexagonal bricks/tiles with a damaged lantern hanging on it, connected with lots of wires.

Connected
A photograph of a mural showing a painting of a building with 'Rap hat, lac viet' written on it. Lower down is a glass box that is half full of fallen leaves. Scooters can be seen to the left of the frame.

Caught
Photograph of a brick wall with a palm leaf broom hanging on it. Behind are trees and in front is a broken pavement with a pile of broken paving slabs.

Convenient storage
Photograph looking down on an ornate tiled roof with a blue paper folded fan that has fallen on to it to the left, a few coins and an empty Yakult bottle can also be seen.

Fallen
A photograph of a street scene in Doha, Qatar, showing an older, rundown building with a ladder in the foreground. Doha tore down and rebuilt most buildings in preparation for the World Cup 2022.

A tiny piece of the past
Photograph of a wall with ornate wallpaper with a square protruding, matched up with the wallpaper behind.

Blending in
Photograph of an airconditioning unit that has a framed picture of Klimt's Kiss on the front, to disguise it.

Disguised
Photograph of a spiky plant growing in very angular ways, making a geometric pattern, with small brownish berries.

Geometry in nature
Photograph of containers holding cat food, decorated with paintings and the words 'Oia's Strays', with a bottle of clear liquid and a bucket full of water to the right, all against a plain wall.

A kind thing
Photograph of a clock tower with a rusted clock and both hands pointing down, with rust having run down the tower. Blue sky behind.

No time
Photograph of a small pink cyclamen plant with two flowers, growing between stones in the steps leading up to Fortress of Palamidi in Nafplio, Greece.

Emerging
Room with a view. Photograph of an abandoned shell of a hotel, with a view of the sea and mountains behind.

Room with a view

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