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Lighting design at Speirs Major. Occasional photography all over the place.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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This weekend's #AmperSand
An ampersand formed by arranging shells on a sandy beach An ampersand formed by arranging shells on a sandy beach. A child is skipping rocks across the still water of the cove, just next to it. An ampersand formed by arranging shells on a sandy beach.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I remember the old days, when Baroness Falkner suggested that trans people use their 'power of advocacy' to ask for facilities.

Now: Gaaah! They've been using their power of advocacy!!
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."
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I mean I suspect they could easily beat us at many, many other sports - including soccer, possibly! - but, still, from the land of your poor mother: Fuck you, Trump.
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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From the single BoingBoing post I've read on the subject so far, I imagine there are all sorts of legal wranglings to come! Much depends on how willing the developers were to make choices against advice, I guess. (If indeed that advice was actually given?)
October 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Stepping outside for fifteen minutes during lunch is always good for my mind, I'm sure, but it's also a very helpful reminder that I'm pretty damn lucky to live next to this.

#Edinburgh #Photography #Haze
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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It is! Picardy Place.
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Basically, yeah! Picardy place.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It’s Picardy Place!

Did some others, yonks ago: flickr.com/photos/12771...
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It’s Picardy Place!

Did some others, many moons ago: flickr.com/photos/12771...
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Not fine one of these in a while…

#Edinburgh folk, (and anyone else I suppose): can you recognise the location from its clutter?
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Have some Alberti.

This is in the Basilica di Sant'Andrea, in Mantua. Shot about ten years ago, while I was in town working on a project there. Mantua's lovely. I should return one day.
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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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You've now actually got me thinking about the various bits of concrete I've dragged my wife/family to, over the years, and even trying to rank them… I should probably be making a map!

Current front runners are either Cumbernauld or a former eye clinic in Boulder, by Charles Haertling.
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Can't help thinking of all the previous views you won't be able to include! Still, hope you all have a great time.
September 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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It's World Ampersand Day!

...& I'm sure we all knew that months in advance, right?

Anyway, here's yesterday's effort, from Skateraw Harbour.

Previously: www.flickr.com/photos/davem...

#Ampersand #Lettering #BeachArt #WorldAmpersandDay
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. An ampersand made of coloured rocks (a gradient from reds through yellows) on a cracked grey stone background. The remains of an old lime kiln is visible in the distance, along the shore.
September 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Here, have some concrete!

These are the dolos blocks which form the breakwater and sea defenses by Torness Nuclear Power Station, in East Lothian. Each one of them weighs about eight tonnes.
September 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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For Women Scotland protest (and associated counter-protest) due to start up outside Holyrood, shortly.

...which seems as good a time as any to share this old shot.

#trans #ScottishParliament #Access #LGBTQ+
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.
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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A couple of weeks ago I took a photo, and people liked it. So I've written a blog post about it, in case anybody is interested enough to look at it again.

daveybot.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/r...

#Photography #Architecture #Edinburgh
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.
August 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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There's a carpark on Castle Terrace (Scotland's first multi-storey car park, as it happens) and this staircase is right in the middle of it. There's a farmers market on top of it on Saturdays, which you might remember?

Anyway, turns out the stair was right on axis with the flight path, for my shot!
August 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Today's #AmperSand made from the old washed up shells of flat oysters, at Longniddry Bents.

Previously: www.flickr.com/photos/davem...

#BeachArt #Lettering
An ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach. A close-up shot of an ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.
August 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Oh, I have PLENTY I took without the planes, while awaiting them!

I’ve always liked that carpark (and stair), though. Under-appreciated, I reckon.
August 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography
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.
August 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Picked this up in a second hand bookshop, today. Excellent condition.

£2.00!
July 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Excellent reflection work in the mirror of one of the upstairs bedroom photos, too.
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I'm the kind of bore who blurts out 'ooh, I've been there' during a film. What's worse, though, is 'ooh, that's one of our projects!'

Still: Ooh, the trailer for The Old Guard 2 features one of our projects!

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyiv...
Project: smlightarchitecture.com/projects/244...
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.
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM