Shropshire under a lens
John Hayward is a professional landscape photographer with a great passion for his native Shropshire.
He travels the length and breadth of the county to photograph its glorious countryside, seeking out remote locations as well as bustling towns and idyllic villages.
In particular he delights in tramping the Shropshire Hills and capturing the dramatic scenery along the England and Wales borderlands.
John is a Shropshire lad, based in Shifnal, and his stunning images regularly appear in books, national newspapers and magazines.
He runs the Shropshire and Beyond® photographic library which he set up in partnership with his father, Mike, to showcase the very best that the county has to offer.
Together they produced two books, A Year in Shropshire (2017) and Shropshire From Dawn to Dusk (2020), which were published by Merlin Unwin Books.
In 2023, John's pictures were used to illustrate a photographic edition of A Shropshire Lad, A E Housman's lyrical English poem. A second edition featuring all new pictures was published in 2026.
His images are used extensively by national and international picture agencies, and appear regularly in the media.
It is his love for the majesty and grandeur of the Shropshire Hills that inspired him to take up landscape photography as a profession.
He is often in position long before the sun comes up, capturing the new day as dawn sweeps across the magnificent views laid out beneath him.
His picture of the Ironbridge cooling towers being demolished was commended in the 2020 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition and was included in the accompanying book.
Shropshire and Beyond® is affiliated to the Mike Hayward Collection of classic British motor sport images.
