Itmar Esteban Herraiz – riding for Catalonia – beats Dutch rider Yondi Schmidt in a sprint at an international track cycling meet at the Meadowbank Velodrome in Edinburgh.
The winner takes it all
Some days we’re just going around in circles
A pace motorcycle goes around a banked turn at the velodrome in Edinburgh.
Don’t stop carry straight on to the weekend
Don’t stop for anything that gets in the way of your dreams.
Not everything with wings can fly
Car bonnet badge from a rather dirty Bentley, Morningside, Edinburgh.
Time for cricket?
Close up photo of a pile of cricket balls in the shop window of an antique store, Causewayside, Edinburgh
Rushing river
Water rushes over the rapids in the River Almond, in Cramond in Edinburgh.
Quartermile clouds
Clouds reflected in the windows of one of the new (and empty) office buildings that are part of the Quartermile development in Edinburgh on the site of the old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, just north of the Meadows. Designed by Foster and Partners, it is an interesting and mostly successful juxtaposition of old (i.e. late Victorian) and glass-fronted high-modernist architecture.
Cramond rapids
An intermediate exposure of the River Almond at Cramond – 2 second exposure at f8 with a Tiffen 3 stop ND filter.
The hidden cross
A window-slit cut into the Moray sandstone that lines the broch that forms the entrance to the National Museum of Scotland extension, built in the late 90s and designed by Benson and Forsyth. There is a mimoa.eu architecture project on the building.
Under cover
Fruit under wraps outside a fruit store, Morningside, Edinburgh.
Climb on up
Climbing frame/helter-skelter in Morningside Play Park, Edinburgh.
I need a dollar
Photo of a faded dollar sign on a wooden background, Wild West, Morningside, Edinburgh.
This is where we hide your money
Black and white photo of the tiled front of the Bank of Scotland branch on Balcarres Street, in Morningside, Edinburgh.
Dunbar propeller
A 4-ton propeller at Dunbar harbour in memory of Robert Wilson, a local man who is one of (at least) four men from across the world who have a claim to have invented the ship’s propeller in the 1830s.
That used to be my sky
Dan-Air de Havilland DH 106 Comet 4C at the Museum of Flight, East Fortune.