John Shingleton

In the past, I travelled often and far from my base in Australia. Then, in the first months of 2020, my adventures came to a grinding halt…

The Leica X1 was John's passion. It became his favourite lightweight carry around camera. Then it languished unloved for five years. It's now been resurrected and it's as good as ever...

Marvel, John's ginger cat, was delighted. The recent announcement by Virgin Australia that domestic animals could accompany their owners and travel in the passenger cabin on Virgin Australia flights welcomed by an enthusiastic purr.

Inspired by Australian photographer Peter Dombrovskis, John travels to Tasmania and renews his acquaintance with landscape photography

It was not until 2016 that we discovered Portugal. If you live in the Europe or the United Kingdom, Portugal is right up there with Spain as a top holiday destination. But living here on the other side of the planet, it is not high up our list of ‘must visit’ places…

The Kimberley is an extraordinary place. First, it is vast, at 432,517 km2. Second, it is a true wilderness and very little of it is habitable. There are only three towns of any size and the population of the whole region is no more than 55,000, of which 40% are First Nation people who live predominantly in remote settlements…