Rainy streets: umbrellas, wet pavements and reflections
When the downpour arrives the city changes pace; lights multiply on the tarmac and footsteps quicken.
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From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
The seating, stages and surroundings of theatres from the Greek and Roman world.
From cherry blossom to wild poppies, the first colours of the season.
From Hong Kong to Toronto, Frankfurt to Bangkok, a light map of cities that come alive at night.
Frames showing the season's work and scenery in Europe's vineyards.
From flocks of geese filling the sky to flamingos feeding in shallow lakes, scenes from along the flyways.
From mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work.
Tarmac winding beneath the clouds, dirt tracks plunging into forest and pastures opening onto the peaks.
Giant gantry cranes, feeder ships coming alongside and terminals that work through the night.
Clay taking shape on the wheel, pots on market stalls and thousand-year-old pieces in museum cases.