Father and son put Shropshire in the frame with book
Getting that perfect sunrise picture needs the right light, a bit of luck – and a really early start.
So Mike Hayward leaves those ones to son John.
"John does the early ones where you get up at 3.30am and go up a hill somewhere. I'm too old. I was 70 two weeks ago. And then there's the stuff he has to carry around with him. His backpack weighs two stone. If I had that on I would fall over backwards," said Mike.
Their photographic teamwork has now reached fruition with a book of stunning images taken across the county, called A Year In Shropshire.
"We've been doing these pictures of Shropshire for some time, me in particular. John has been doing it for four years, and I've been doing it all my life really. It's a curse. You can't stop once you start," said Mike, who has a background in press photography.
Together the pair run the Shropshire and Beyond photographic website library, which has thousands of images, and it led to them getting the idea for this, their first book.
"We thought, let's put a book proposal in and see if anybody is interested. We did, to Merlin Unwin, and they took us up like a shot."
The book contains more than 160 images spanning the seasons although despite the title they were not all taken in the same calendar year, some of them having been taken some years ago.
