Using a fotoVUE Guidebook to Explore and Discover Liverpool

If you've been reading this blog or watching my YouTube channel for a while, you'll know that I'm a big fan of fotoVUE books. Over the years they have published a wide range of photography centric guidebooks for locations across the UK and beyond. These guidebooks have been an invaluable guide to me and my photography. They haven't replaced my desire to go out and find my own locations, but they are there when I’m going somewhere new and I need some essential information such as how to get there, where to park, and what I could shoot. They help me make the most of my time at a location.

I have also featured some of the fotoVUE titles on the On My Bookshelf series. You can watch those videos here and you can see how I have put the information in these books to good use in a real world scenario.

All of those videos though have one thing in common though. They were predominately about outdoor or landscape photography (which shouldn’t be too much of a surprise as I am a landscape photographer!) I do also own copies of Photographing London Volume 1 and Explore & Discover Liverpool but these have been sitting on my bookshelf unused I'm ashamed to say. That is until now!

I was planning a trip up to Scotland from Devon to see some family and I thought that rather than driving for 10 hours, I might take a break somewhere. I was scouring through my fotoVUE books looking for somewhere to stop to take some landscape photos when I spotted my copy of Explore & Discover Liverpool. Liverpool is only a small diversion from my route up M6, so it seemed like the perfect place to spend a few hours. And a few hours is all I had so a good guidebook was going to be essential to help me maximise my time in Liverpool capturing photographs.

If you'd like to know more about this book and how I used it to capture photographs of Liverpool I produced this special on location edition of On My Bookshelf. Enjoy!

Buy Explore & Discover Liverpool

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If you want to add Explore and Discover Liverpool to your bookshelf, you can purchase it directly from fotoVUE here - https://fotovue.com/shop/books/explore-discover-liverpool/

My Liverpool Gallery

Here are the photographs I captured while I wandered around The Waterfront in Liverpool