One of Edinburgh's original features is this monument to the writer Sir Walter Scott, famous for his novels and poems. Perhaps his most famous are Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, but he wrote many others including his Waverley novels.

This picture was taken on an occasion when I was in Edinburgh teaching and had been out with old friends for the evening. I was returning to my hotel, camera in pocket, when I took this nightime shot of the monument which is situated on Princes Street near Waverley railway station and the gardens.