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Young Afro-Caribbean woman stands astride a gravel/adventure bicycle on a bridleway over a disused railway bridge as the sun bursts through trees at evening golden hour, Themelthorpe, Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewA male wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) feeds on the purple flower of a hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica) plant in summer in a rural cottage garden, Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewA worker common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) with noticeably full pollen baskets feeds on a purple head of giant clover (Trifolium rubens), Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewMale hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes) feeding on a bright yellow ornamental flower, Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewMale hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes) with wings whirring while feeding on an orange geranium, Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewA modern gravel/adventure bicycle fully laden with bikepacking luggage on the slopes of Monte Cucco, Umbria, Italy in autumn.
Quick ViewA large white (Pieris brassicae) butterfly rests on a hebe shrub in a cottage garden, Norfolk, UK.
Quick ViewA heavily laden gravel/adventure bicycle with bikepacking equipment stands in a rock field in a forest clearing on Vitosha Mountain, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Quick ViewA gravel/adventure bicycle laden with bikepacking kit stands next to a mountainside doubletrack trail in autumn, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA gravel/adventure bicycle laden with bikepacking equipment at the Furlo Gorge, Le Marche, Italy.
Quick ViewA blue New Holland tractor pulling a Vicon mechanical baler on the Piano Grande plateau during the lentil harvest, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA large round bale of lentil straw stands in front of a mechanical harvester and a backdrop of mountains on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo labourers collect harvested lentils from a combine in a huge sack carried in a trailer on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewFarm labourers smile as they examine the lentil harvest, bagged in a huge sack, with a combine harvester in the background, on the Piano Grande plateau, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA farm manager watches as a green John Deere tractor holds a huge sack beneath the unloading spout of a combine harvester to collect processed lentils on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA close up view of lentil straw, held in the hands of a farmer on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA convoy of lentil harvesting equipment, with only the combine harvester visible above the lentil stems, makes its way across the Piano Grande beneath Monte Vettore at Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo lentil harvesting machines move away from the camera, gathering the crop for the following combine harvester to process, toward the distant mountains on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo farm labourers, a man and a woman, stand bent over in a field picking saffron crocuses at golden hour on a farm near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewPurple saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) covered in dew, growing in a field and ready for harvest in Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo senior farm labourers, a man and a woman, collecting saffron crocuses in a plastic bucket in a field near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo senior farm labourers, a man and a woman, collecting saffron crocuses in plastic buckets in a field near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewClose up image of a female labourer removing crocus stamens from the flowers, near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA dish of crocus stamens picked from the flower, with the petals set aside, on a farm near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
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