Nowadays, Edinburgh is up there as being one of the most photographed places on the planet, but there was a time when the very notion of capturing the capital's likeness using a wee black box would've seen you dooked in the Nor' Loch and tried for sorcery.
That all changed in the late 1830s, when one local man began experimenting with early photography processes right here in Edinburgh from the window of his flat off the Royal Mile.
Dating from around 1839 is a Daguerrotype that shows Edinburgh city centre, including landmarks that are still familiar to us today.
