Taken from the book 'Beware of Pickpockets', which documents the old main stand at Tynecastle Park, home of Heart of Midlothian FC. Hi-viz orange bibs hang from coat hooks in the media centre.

The sun streams through aging, dusty windows and illuminates the letters used to identify each row of seats in an old football stand. Taken from the book 'Kit Bags, Flags, and the Harry Wraggs', an ode in photographs to the Colin Weir stand at the home of Partick Thistle FC.

Taken from the book 'Beware of Pickpockets', which documents the old main stand at Tynecastle Park, home of Heart of Midlothian FC. This image was taken near the catering facilities in the rear of the stand.

Fans queue on Glasgow's Firhill Road, Maryhill, to enter the old main stand via turnstiles as old as the stand itself. Taken from the book 'Kit Bags, Flags, and the Harry Wraggs', an ode in photographs to the Colin Weir stand at the home of Partick Thistle FC.

Bright yellow paintwork peels away from the bricks surrounding the windows at the rear of the Weir stand. Taken from the book 'Kit Bags, Flags, and the Harry Wraggs', an ode in photographs to the Colin Weir stand at the home of Partick Thistle FC.

Taken from the book 'Beware of Pickpockets', which documents the old main stand at Tynecastle Park, home of Heart of Midlothian FC. The hospitality area for players' wives and girlfriends, mums and dads, etc, was an old gymnasium. The décor and makeshift furnishings struggled to disguise the room's original purpose.

Taken from the book 'Beware of Pickpockets', which documents the old main stand at Tynecastle Park, home of Heart of Midlothian FC. The home dressing room provides a spartan backdrop for the players' kit.

Light and shadow play across the stairway of a block of flats (apartments) in central Naples.

Student protests in Napoli, October 2022; one of the leaders holds back the protesters while the police stop traffic ahead to allow the march to progress. All quite civilised, really.

World War II construction designed to prevent U-boats slipping past Cramond Island near Edinburgh.

The Vennel Steps rising up from the Grassmarket to the junction of Heriot Place and Kier Street in Edinburgh's Old Town.

A popular harbour area in north Edinburgh, home to fishing and leisure craft, a multitude of seagulls, and the occasional mermaid...

The door to the back green of an Edinburgh tenement bears some sound advice.

A group of Sicilian worthies chew the fat, while the representative of a younger generation keeps their distance.

The Stromness to Scrabster ferry steams into the sea mist on its way from Orkney to the Scottish mainland.

At a community sports area in Lilongwe, Malawi, a passing cyclists crosses the pitch and delays the restart of a football match. Nobody bats an eyelid...

A collection of Japanese 'Ema' (small wooden boards used to display hand-written hopes and prayers) at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto. One wish is somewhat anglicised...

A white bicycle rests against a house wall in Copenhagen

The common foxglove: the plant that saved a million heartbeats. Since the 1700s extracts from Digitalis species have been used to treat heart disease. And it makes a nice still life subject.

Barnacles hitched a lift on a mussel shell, and came a cropper when the seabirds ate the mussel and dumped the shell inland.