Explore & Discover Scotland: Visit the most beautiful places take the best photos

Having seen a copy of the Peak District guide and with a forthcoming trip to the western highlands of Scotland planned, I ordered a copy of the Scotland guide. My first impression was that this is a weighty tome. A book for planning. It’s not a book for throwing in your bag for a day in the hills., but to pore over, sat by the fire, whisky in hand.For the photographer, the guide does everything a good guidebook should do. It inspires you with great places to go, the images to capture and tells you exactly how to get to and the time of day to go to get the shots. Almost every location has multiple viewpoints, showing suitable alternatives should your intended viewpoint be busy, if you just want a change from a familiar one or if you want to get something a bit different. Particularly for a landscape photographer, this guide is a must, not that only landscapes are covered - Edinburgh and Glasgow are covered too but as with the country itself, the landscapes are what one thinks of and they are here in abundance.But the beauty of this guide is that is only a part of it. If you enjoy stunning photography, then Dougie Cunningham’s images are second to none. From the obvious ‘place your tripod legs in the holes’ images of the Buachaille in Glen Coe to the ethereal cover shot of a Sutherland bothy or the vast moonscape wilderness grandeur of Stac Pollaidh, there is an image here to take your breath away. It’s a book of beauty and one you’ll love to leave out on the coffee table. If travelling were an armchair pastime, this is your passport, plane ticket and memory bank all in one.And it doesn’t stop there. I love guidebooks. I generally buy a few for any single area I visit and on this trip, I found I picked Photographing Scotland up more than any other guide. If you want to visit the obvious tourist destinations along with a whole host of lesser well-known spots, from roadside to big hike, then you’ll not be disappointed. It has so much more to offer than a traditional tourist’s guidebook, missing only the transport, eating, drinking and accommodation sections you’d normally find in a guidebook which quickly go out of date as prices inflate, currency deflates and businesses close down. With this book plus the internet, you’ve got everything you need for a number of trips to Scotland for a lifetime to come. With twelve guides (and counting) on Fotovue’s bookshelves, they’ve found a winning formula and these will certainly be my go-to guides for any trip.

I now have several books of this collection, and they are all fantastic. In my opinion, they managed to balance at the same time beautiful pictures, travel guidance and photography tips.Photographing Scotland was actually the first book in the collection I used to plan a road trip around the Highlands, and despite the weight of the book in my luggage, it was worth every grams of it. This is a great tool to help plan viewpoints, and the author brings you to areas out of the standard touristic ones, with good walks in the process. I think the book really helped making my journey even better that it already was.Each photography opportunity is well described, sometimes even with some historical notes - which I would have not expected in that kind of book -, there are instructions to reach them (with quite precise post codes easy to enter in your car GPS, even though sometimes you need to read carefully the walking instructions).Since this one, I have used the Photographing North Wales, East Anglia, and Peak District to plan other road trips, and I have never been disappointed. I just wish that this format existed for places outside the UK (and I will certainly use the Dolomites one if I go there one day, and I wish I had the Iceland one when I visited 😉 )

Ideal for anybody with an interest in capturing the landscapes of Scotland with a camera. Giving details of the illustrations, shutter speed, f number and iso speed of every one of the 800 photos in the book !

I've not used one of these Fotovue guides before but I have to say I'm very impressed. This one has all the information you need to find all the iconic and less well-known locations around Scotland. It has location detail including best viewpoints, it even has details of suitable parking locations together with how long it would take to reach a viewpoint from that parking place. The author has even suggested the best time of year and the best time of day to be visiting any particular location. For the more serious photographer, the writer has provided details of his camera settings for your guidance. Dougie Cunningham (the author) has provided some great pictures and has gone to a lot of effort to be at prime locations at the best time of day, the pictures are reproduced at a good size with what appears to be accurate colour and although some of the other pictures in the book are reproduced quite small they are still large enough to inspire any photographer whether using a phone or a digital SLR.

A good guide identifying beautiful landscape locations in Scotland to photograph and lavish quality photographs. It's a very useful means of preparing where to photograph places and well organised. Personally I found another photographer's guide to Scotland more helpful in being slightly better organised arranging an order of sequence travelling from one location to the next, namely Ellen Bowness' The Photographer's Guide to Scotland, Volume 1 (also available on Amazon) which covers the areas of Scotland I travelled to. I don't know when any further volume (s) are available. It's worth considering buying either or both Photographer's Guides depending on how you prefer to prepare before travelling.

This is an excellent, detailed book covering all of scotland. Highly recommended for any photographers visiting scotland.

I collect all of these “photographing” books in the series. Absolutely essential for landscape photographers. Images are breathtaking and the accompanying info is vital if YOU want to take breathtaking photos too! Vital info on parking, weather, accessibility etc

Ce livre est magnifique et vous fait découvrir de magnifiques paysages et sites. C'est un outil extraordinaire pour découvrir les endroits magiques à photographier

Un libro muy bonito e interesante con fotos espectaculares.Lamentablemente, con lo que me gustan los libros, este lo entregaron dañado. Parace que el packaging no es el adecuado o no tuvieron cuidado al manipular el paquete.

Le principe du livre sort de l'ordinaire, puisque c'est un guide des meilleurs points de vue pour photographier les plus beaux monuments ou paysages d'Ecosse. On aimerait ce genre de livre pour la France, car cela fait gagner du temps pour trouver les chemins et petites routes.Superbe aussi sur la table du salon : on voyage sans quitter son fauteuil

Discovered this Jem in Scotland and ordered it on Amazon to have it delivered to the US.Everything about this book is Amazing,The photos are stunning and the descriptions are informative.If your looking to travel to Scotland and wanted something to help you decide where to go this is the book you need to buy !Or have on your coffee table .

Absolutely one of the best photo/travel reference books I've ever used. I used it to plan a 3 week tour of the Outer Hebrides, Isle of Skye and a bit of the Highlands. Its an excellent guide with plenty of information, guides, maps, instructions...basically everything you need for landscape photography. Its also very well written.The only "negative" thing is that at almost 600 pages and 1.5 kilos this isn't going to fit in your back pocket!