I've been photographing Edinburgh's skyline for thirty years — from scaffolding, from rooftops, from half-built towers and crane cabs swaying in the wind.

As a construction professional, I see the city from places most people never will. These photographs are a record of that privilege: the way light falls on stone at six in the morning, the way the Castle looks from sixty metres up, the way the city changes shape with every new building and every passing season.

This collection is a love letter to a city that never stops surprising me.

Mark Lovelady — Edinburgh photographer