Curtain Falls On Edinburgh's Festival Season With A Bang
pic: Alex Aitchison
Edinburgh's festival season has been brought to a close with a display of hundreds of thousands of fireworks lighting up Edinburgh Castle.
Crowds turned up at Princes Street Gardens and other vantage points throughout the city for the 45-minute display set to music from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
More than 400,000 fireworks lit up the sky as classic favourites including Brahms' Hungarian Dances, Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, and Strauss' Thunder and Lightning Polka were performed.
It takes a team of 15 people six days to lay out the four tonnes of fireworks, including the famous waterfall which sees fireworks cascading over the castle's rocks.
This year ticket sales for the International Festival have been around £3.8 million, almost 20% higher than last year's record total.
Millions of people have visited the Scottish capital throughout August to watch comedy, theatre and music shows as well as a number of free outdoor performances such as a light show projected on to the Usher Hall to celebrate 50 years of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
Almost 2.3 million tickets have been issued for 50,000 Fringe events, an increase of more than 5% on last year.