Shropshire and Beyond

Shropshire and Beyond Landscape photographer John Hayward celebrates Shropshire with beautiful books, prints, calendars, cards, jigsaws and talks.

Landscape photographer John Hayward celebrates beautiful Shropshire with books, prints, calendars, cards, jigsaws and talks.

24/06/2026

Come with me on a walk up to Flounders’ Folly, a stone tower that stands 80 feet above Callow Hill, near Craven Arms. I woke up at 4am yesterday and arrived not long after sunrise - wishing that I had taken my fleece with me, as there was a surprisingly chilly breeze at the top.

Always keep a pair of wellies in the car - that’s one of the first lessons I learned as a photographer. This is Pole Ban...
22/06/2026

Always keep a pair of wellies in the car - that’s one of the first lessons I learned as a photographer. This is Pole Bank on the Long Mynd, and the sky at sunset was absolutely amazing. I needed to walk a few metres into the water to get the shot I wanted - and I couldn’t have done it without my trusty wellies.

19/06/2026

The deer are back in the garden and they have a little one with them. I did wake up one morning to find they had eaten a quarter of my raspberry plants, so I had to put up some deterrents. I’m using some motion sensors that pulse a light and play the radio and that is successfully keeping them away. The final clips are from a recent trip out in south Shropshire.

Mist shrouds the fields around Clun Castle at dawn. The view kept changing as the mist rose and fell in waves, first hid...
17/06/2026

Mist shrouds the fields around Clun Castle at dawn. The view kept changing as the mist rose and fell in waves, first hiding the castle and then revealing it. I would take a picture and, a few minutes later, think 'oh wait, it’s better now' - only to do exactly the same thing again and again. I came away with so many different images that morning.

15/06/2026

Follow me on a walk to Battlestones on Willstone Hill, near Church Stretton. Great views from the summit and a wonderful signpost - well worth the effort of getting up there.

Long shadows stretch across the fields beneath the Long Mynd, with the peak of Black Knoll seen rising on the left. I wa...
12/06/2026

Long shadows stretch across the fields beneath the Long Mynd, with the peak of Black Knoll seen rising on the left. I was standing on Burrow Hill for this shot, enjoying the early evening peace and quiet and watching as red kites soared overhead. Hard to think of a better way to spend my time.

How inviting is this - a winding path leading up to Caradoc on a hike around the Stretton Hills yesterday. I had to wait...
10/06/2026

How inviting is this - a winding path leading up to Caradoc on a hike around the Stretton Hills yesterday. I had to wait a good 40 minutes to catch the light I wanted, but time always flies when I’m out with my camera in the Shropshire countryside.

08/06/2026

The things you see when you’re doing the washing up - here’s a great spotted woodpecker feeding its baby outside the kitchen window. The adult was pecking away at the fat balls on the bird feeder and then flying back to put the food directly into the youngster’s mouth. That was me hooked, and I spent the next three hours watching this wonderful display through my camera.

A view with a difference - this is Shrewsbury seen through a very long lens, with Caer Caradoc in the distance. Caradoc ...
05/06/2026

A view with a difference - this is Shrewsbury seen through a very long lens, with Caer Caradoc in the distance. Caradoc is about 12 miles away as the crow flies, but the lens I used makes it seem much closer. Most people will recognise the tower of St Chad’s Church, but I had to look on a map to identify the spire on the left - it belongs to the chapel buildings in Longden Road Cemetery.

A perfect reflection - this shot of the Iron Bridge was taken from a few feet above the River Severn with my new drone. ...
03/06/2026

A perfect reflection - this shot of the Iron Bridge was taken from a few feet above the River Severn with my new drone. I've been photographing Shropshire full-time for 14 years now, and it’s so refreshing to see the county from an entirely different perspective.

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