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My two find and play with all sorts of things on our dog walks. Usually its a battle who can hold on to their findings without the other one stealing it!
You may remember the previous images of this Puffin that I posted some time ago. I know many of you expressed the hope that they might somehow help to bring about positive change to one of the biggest environmental issues of our time.
One of the images was shown on BBC Springwatch in 2018 when they did a feature on plastic pollution and the image above was more recently adopted by Keep Britain Tidy to help support their national anti-littering campaign 'Keep It, Bin It'.
The campaign uses striking images of animals impacted by litter to highlight the harm that littering has on our wildlife. These images are juxtaposed against common excuses people give for dropping litter and calls for an end to this behaviour with the tagline “No More Rubbish Excuses”.
This image can currently be seen on digital billboards and display screens at many travel hubs including Moto service stations and Network Rail stations. Apparently, it also reached over 3.3 million young people across Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat last summer.
I'm just so pleased that the image is being widely used to help educate people to do the right thing when it comes to disposing of their rubbish.
#KeepItBinIt
This marked up image is shown here courtesy of Keep Britain Tidy & Defra.
Original image taken on the Isle of Lunga, May 2018.
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Taken as part of my environmental awareness project on beach litter and washed up plastics, this is one of many fish boxes that find their way on to our Cumbrian shorelines. With wildlife breeding season upon us, we all have a responsibility to keep our beaches clean from such rubbish. It's not enough anymore to just walk past expecting others to clean up instead - if you use the beach in anyway you have a responsibility to help protect it's natural environment. Next time you enjoy our beautiful British coast, make a point of collecting just one item of rubbish and disposing of it suitably, imagine if we all did just that...!
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
In 2018 Hall Leys Park gained its 11th consecutive Green Flag award from the Keep Britain Tidy Group, making it officially one of the best parks in the whole of the UK.
A female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) navigating traffic cones 😒
Spike Island bridge
Widnes
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Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
Throughout 2018 I have been busy working on a new photographic project in Scotland using my miniature figurines (the 'Little People').
My main hope is that this new series of photographs will help highlight the plastic / litter epidemic our country (and planet) is suffering from. Littering in general has always sickened me, and the 'Blue Planet II effect' really made me feel like I too could help highlight the issue using my own unique approach.
Earlier this year, I spent several days collecting bags full of plastic and rubbish that had been discarded (or washed up) next to beaches and lochs on the west coast of Scotland, mostly 'beauty' spots. I kept some of this plastic to make my work (recycling the rest) and returned to the banks of Loch Lomond a couple of months ago to photograph my latest series - LIFE IN PLASTIC.
Thanks for looking.
David
Eml: hello@davidgilliver.com
A bit of a jumble in composition terms, a vestige from the days when I was trying to be arty-farty with my transport photography. A damp day in Lincoln saw me capture Harry Secombe gurning in an urge for us to Keep Britain Tidy, while the municipal car park attendant in hallmark jobsworth cap awaits business in his booth, and Lincoln City Transport AEC Bridgemaster No.95 (TFE538) awaits its next turn of duty.
The bus was one of a batch of four Bridgemasters that that Lincoln took in September 1962, the final new customer for the not very successful low-height bus. In fact, AEC had already announced that it would cease production of the type, replacing it with the Renown model that did not sell any better. Lincoln’s purchase of the AEC Bridgemaster was a surprise, as Lincoln favoured Leylands. I believe that the four buses had originally been ordered by Leicester City Transport, so my guess is that AEC made an irresistible bargain offer to offload the unwanted buses. I wonder how much satisfaction Lincoln obtained from its Bridgemaster quartet? The type didn’t last very long in service, being withdrawn in 1974.
July 1972
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
Seen photographed at Navenby on an afternoon service to Grantham is Scania Enviro 400 15656. The overall vinyl application, advertising "Love our country" Keep Britain Tidy campaign, was applied to the offside only. The nearside of the vehicle had an equally attractive and artistic design raising awareness to the threat of plastic to our Marine life. It was first used like this in March 2017 and could be seen operating from various depots throughout the region during the year.
A litter picking loop walk turned into an epic litter picking session in one small lay-by. 179 cans, 60+ glass bottles, bag loads of plastic bottles plus lots of general litter and a microwave. I started out alone but fortunately fellow picker Ian Rollitt phoned and came to help out. All part of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign this month.
Description: Railway anti-litter poster by an unknown artist.
Date: World War Two
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Went down to the beach for an early evening walk and to take some sunset photos to find it blighted by the amount of rubbish left behind by the day visitors! I’ve joked that I quite like the Juxtaposition of the lager cans against the beautiful backdrop of the Thames Estuary and shame they were not Carlsberg cans with the old ‘if Carlsberg did sunsets ‘ thing ! It was totally unacceptable and disgraceful the way the place had been treated by the day visitors! Cans bottles dirty nappies boxes glass tents shoes toys etc all over the beach! My images have caused quite a stir and it’s been a mad couple of days so let’s hope something good comes from them being shared so much!
My train home last night was instead a rail replacement coach, much to my dismay. Furthermore I overtook this on my way over, and so on arrival in Town discovered it should be only a few minutes away. A perfect opportunity to get a better photo, now I just need to the other side of it.
Stagecoach East Midlands Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro 400, 15656 (FX10 AFY), is seen on Bethlehem Street in Grimsby on 28th May 2017.
Working service 10 North Sea Lane to Waltham.
New to Stagecoach East Midlands (Lincoln) in 2010.
Stagecoach East Midlands Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro 400, 15656 (FX10 AFY), is seen passing through Priory Arch in Lincoln on 29th March 2017.
New to Stagecoach East Midlands (Lincoln) in 2010.
The official handbook to the City of Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire, world famous centre of the pottery industry and the edition published in the immediate post-war period, 1947. Most local authorities produced such handbooks designed to both inform local residents of services and amenities as well as to entice vistors of both a commercial or tourist nature. It is fair to say that this for Stoke is honest in that it casts the net of tourist attractions in a wide ring around this industrial centre - that said, Staffordshire and neighbouring Derbyshire do have some very scenic delights!
The City and County Borough of Stoke on Trent was an unusually early example of local government amalgamation on a large scale in the UK prior to the 1974 local government reorganisation. Although relatively small alterations to borough boundaries, and the annexation of smaller authorities by neighbouring larger ones was common, the creation of the new County Borough in 1910 was more akin to contiental practices, such as in Germany and Wuppertal. As early as 1888 there had been pressure to reorganise the numerous small authorities in the north of Staffordshire, possibly as a County of Staffordshire Potteries. This never took off but in 1910 the six towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Longton, Tunstall and Fenton amalgamated as the new County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. It expanded and was raised to City status in 1925 and gained the office of Lord Mayor in 1928. The long term aim of including the neighbouring Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme was always thwarted due to that town's opposition and indeed even in the 1974 reorganisation they remained separate authorities.
The handbook needless to say contains much information about the city's municipal services that included gas and electricity supply although the guide being published months before nationalisation of both industries would have been the last edition to include them thus. The one unusual omission for such a city was the fact that local public transport services remained in the hands of a 'private' operator who had taken over from the franchised tramways and indeed, Stoke was noted for not just the main operator, Potteries Motor Traction, but a plethora of independent operators who lasted for many years. It also includes a wealth of information as to the many pottery companies, ancilliary industries as well as the still important coal, iron and steel industries that made the City a famously 'smoky' place.
This advert is about civic pride and being tidy and was issued by the City's Cleansing Department.
The pile of police horse poo (btm right) was simply left where it lay - for someone else to clean it up.
Merseyside Police (mounted section) today in Liverpool city centre.
What's that old saying again? Oh, yes now I remember -- "Do what we say, not what we do!"
This was taken on the fantastic Ainsdale Beach near Southport. Despite the fact I have taken a picture of litter it was very clean.
The beach is huge. It must be a mile long and at least half a mile from shore to sea. It's almost entirely sand with thousands of shells across it.
This can jumped out on such a clean featureless beach and I knew it would make a good subject.