Monday's happy news about the new royal baby meant joy for millions, and hours of waiting for others.
Digital photography has brought many wonderful benefits. But these pictures are enough to make you pine for the days of Wet Plate Collodion photography, when each photographer could take just a handful of images per day…
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A waiting photographer takes pictures of waiting photographers
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Nothing happening? Let’s take a snap of some royal fans in that case!
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‘Quick! It’s them… oh no, wait… oh, what the hell, let’s get a pic anyway…’
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The stunt doubles of the Duke and Duchess test the pavement for cracks
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They’ll need a much longer banner now it’s just a case of taking bets on all the different name options
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‘Quick, it’s definitely them this time… oh no, hang on… well, we’re all set up so might as well get another snap’
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A man sent half-crazy by waiting entertained himself by going to a local fancy dress shop and picking up the first six items he saw
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That noise you hear is the bottom of the barrel being scraped
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