A new book celebrates the "otherworldly" landscapes of the Scottish Highlands with a collection of stunning photographs.
Magical Landscapes Secret Places, from award-winning creative duo Alastair Laidlaw and Christine Marsden, highlights the magical folklore and fantasy elements that permeate the history of the Highlands landscape. It was created over a period of seventeen years, following the authors' move to Fort Augustus, just south of Loch Ness.
Acting as a "love letter" to the region, the book features "exceptional photography, capturing scenes of extraordinary natural and magical beauty". It brings attention to how the Highlands have changed over the last 20 years, showing a "huge evolution in the function of the landscape".
Those who read the book will be able to see how the region has evolved throughout the last two decades, while retaining the "majesty and fantasy which has persisted through the centuries".
However, Magical Landscapes Secret Places is not a typical landscape photography book. It uses a combination of Alasdair and Christine's original images and "thought-provoking" text from writers Roberta Edwards and James A Whittake.
Through this, the images in the book are transformed into "fabulous" stories, inspired by the otherworldly backdrop of the Highlands.
Alasdair and Christine are behind House of Laidlaw, which has had work featured in the likes of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, The Guardian, and the Daily Mail. A copy of their previous book, Dreams of Diamonds, was owned by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
More information can be found here.
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