The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Bird’s eye view of changing Scotland
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Madison Elizabeth Brooks (6), Inverurie. To submit a photo for Junior Club, send it along with your child’s name, address, date of birth and your phone number to lifestyle@ajl.co.uk or call 01224 343274. Aerial photographs which archivists say show how human interaction has shaped today’s landscapes are to be published in a new book.
Scotland’s Landscapes brings together images from the National Collection of Aerial Photography.
It includes bird’s-eye view shots of Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, and Fort George Army barracks, near Inverness, which is said to have originated at the time of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745.
The book is the third in a series published by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), showcasing the country’s changing landscapes.
Author James Crawford, 34, from Edinburgh, said over the past 10,000 years every inch of Scotland has been moulded by its people.
He said: “No part of the land is without its human story.
“From Orkney’s immaculately preserved Neolithic villages to Highland glens stripped of 19th century settlements, from a Skye peninsula converted to an ingenious Viking ‘shipyard’, to a Hebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacular lighthouse, Scotland’s history is written into the land in vivid detail.”