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Lighting design at Speirs Major. Occasional photography all over the place.
 Pithy commentary best left here, I expect.
 Edinburgh, Scotland

Five photos from five different cities, including a shady corner in Hong Kong, a stepped, gated alley in Fes, a view over a streetscape in Edinburgh, some towers in New Yorl City, and a single sunny house in a neighbourhood in New Orleans.
A ‘no kings’ graphic, with the jaunty text cut out of a yellow graphical shape that could be a crown or could perhaps be a rapidly descending guillotine blade. Perhaps. I couldn’t possibly comment. …But I would certainly suggest that current powers that be, wherever they are, should perhaps embrace and encourage peaceful protest. Given some of the historical alternatives we all should have been taught about.
A screengrab from Wikipedia. It says: “Cherry dropped out of school at the age of 14 and moved to London, England, in the late 1970s.[10][19][17] Aged 15, she met the Slits while joining her stepfather on his tour with them, and moved into a squat in Battersea with bandmember Ari Up.[11] Her first job at Better Badges involved making pin badges and zines.[17] She also helped staple copies of the first issue of I-D magazine.”
Some photos of ampersands made on beaches with shells, stones, sea glass...
the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' logo, but it says 'single large gamete producer' instead.
A series of tents positioned around a temporary studio outside the Scottish Parliament, under a decidedly grey sky.
The candidate Kate Nevens speaking with a microphone, at an elections hustings in Edinburgh where she's representing the Scottish Greens. She's wearing a dark green jacket and a black T-shirt which says, in white, blue, and pink: 'elect the dolls'.
A view of a silhouetted ruined chapel, hazy in the distance, glimpsed between the leaves and branches of some trees in the foreground.
A screengrab from the 10 Downing Street Flickr stream. The Prime Minister is stood among a group of people, all of them laughing at something. Their caption reads: "Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts SEND roundtable"
A picture of Mr Toad, from The Wind In The Willows. He's sat in the dust gazing at a motorcar. Next to him is a quote from president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox: 'That is really amazing. That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.'
A street in Edinburgh, with any posts upon which lights or buttons or cameras or cables or other services are mounted coloured in yellow.
Bernie Sanders says: I am once again asking for the BBC to not frame any story about Edinburgh architecture around a TV show
A map of (a good chunk of) Europe with no labels. Scotland is covered with a heap of little salt gritter trucks, at various angles.
An ampersand formed by arranging shells on a sandy beach
A screen grab of a BBC News article. Baroness Falkner is speaking on the Today Program. Underneath her picture, the article text reads: "Baroness Falkner said trans people should use their "power of advocacy" to ask for facilities including a "third space" for toilets."
Looking up into the central dome of the Basilica di Sant'Andrea, in Mantua. It looks like an incredibly ornate and richly coloured sculptural interior - fluted columns and capitals and sculptural plaster and coffers everywhere - but actually most of it is just very skilled paintwork.
An ampersand made of coloured rocks (a gradient from reds through yellows) on a cracked grey stone background. The photographer's feet are visible at the bottom of the frame.
A photo of part of the Scottish Parliament. The grey, sculpted concrete walls in the background are contrasted by a small sign in the foreground, which reads 'Except for access' and, though it's a white sign, is reflecting the sunlight in a way which makes it appear as a brightly colourful rainbow.
A photograph of a wide, helical, staircase in a carpark. Most of the frame shows the steps and surrounding columns, but you can see the parked cars and the concrete decks, adjacent. The staircase itself is uncovered and open to the air so, framed by the circular cutout in the top level of the carpark, you get a view out of this space and up into the sky. Also framed in this view of the sky is part of Edinburgh castle, and flying in a V formation over the castle with coloured smoke trails behind them, and observed by a father and son silhouetted at the top of the steps, are the RAF's flight display team, the Red Arrows.
An ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.
A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.
A still from the trailer for the Netflix film, 'The Old Guard 2'. Two women are fighting in a very dramatic fashion, in front of a groovy building at night.
A sign at Edinburgh’s Pride March. It reads ‘JK Rowling may your spirit be eternally trapped in a gender neutral toilet’
A photograph of the former Bristol Magistrate's Court building, now demolished
A progress pride flag formed by arranging colourful pebbles on the sand