International Women's Day - a visual tribute (1)

Seeing as it's International Women's Day and I know lots and lots of admirable women - as colleagues, comrades, students and through my sporting life, I thought I'd share some of my photographs of cool women doing stuff.

One of my more outgoing colleagues

A protester on a march for jobs

Teenage militant

Not sure how that lemon got there

Her brother wanted me to take their picture. She reluctantly agreed after weighing the possibility of my being 'a paedo'. But she kept her guard up.

Sheer determination

Leah King - rising star of England and GB fencing

Francesca Summers (Eng women's foil) in full flight

Gloriously clichéd 1950s painting of a nurse.