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John Mitchell is a former journalist and foreign correspondent who specialises in journalese style photography as well as photography for websites and tourism. He is based in Adelaide, Australia, and is available for photographic and/or writing commissions. You can see many of these photos plus numerous others in the JMPR Photography portfolio at Gekko Images. This is where you may purchase photos. John also operates a full service public relations and media consultancy offering media advice, media release services, speeches, writing consumer and trade press articles for magazines and newspapers, and brochure writing and design. All the photographs shown on this site are available as high quality prints (for a modest fee), or for web publication (web files are emailed and between 400-500K). You are invited to leave a comment in his guest book. All photos are available for sale as postcards, laminated posters, canvas prints, and framed etc at http://darius4522.redbubble.com/works and at http://www.redbubble.com/people/darius4522 John Mitchell's gallery contains 271 photos. 
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Burma Days: In the footsteps of George Orwell
As I stood at the rail of the RV Pandaw IV looking towards Katha in Burma, I wondered how George Orwell must have felt as he arrived at this remote Upper Irrawaddy river port, which has changed very little. We had been on the Pandaw IV for several days, and I was looking forward to seeing the home in which George Orwell had lived in 1926-27.
Abandoning ship on the first night in Burma
Not even being forced to temporarily abandon ship the first night of a cruise up Burma’s normally placid Irrawaddy River was sufficient to thwart photo-journalist John Mitchell’s vacation. Here he tells the story of how the Pandaw IV’s courageous crew overcame a freak occurrence when 150kph wind hit the vessel – the first time it had happened in the company’s 15-year history of cruising in Burma.
Travel writing sample: Airport arrivals are hell
Nothing is worse than arriving at a strange airport in a foreign country after a lengthy flight. I seem to always make a complete hash of it, and subsequently get off to a holiday start that is very much less than memorable.
My latest fiasco was in Kolkata, India, earlier this year.
Bansbari - Halfway between Heaven and Earth
Dusk in Assam at the border of India and Bhutan is like being halfway to heaven. On once side of the majestic Manas River is the lush national park which takes its name from the river, and on the other are the misty Himalayan foothills, which turn golden at sunset.
Cruising the Mighty Brahmaputra River
Cruising the mighty Brahmaputra River in the remote north eastern Indian state of Assam is like taking a step back in time. Sitting on the cruise vessel’s panoramic sundeck at dawn, as the sun shows as an almost scarlet orb and the mist lifts to expose the remote landscape, one could be forgiven for imagining one’s travelling companions are Mahatma Gandhi or Rudyard Kipling.
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"Stalker".
Violence, sex and loneliness form the basis of this steamy novel, set in the beautiful Dandenong Mountains, Melbourne, Australia, and written by John Mitchell. When women begin to disappear senior detective Mark Kimble is appointed as investigating officer. His enquiries draw blanks until his girlfriend, constable Amanda Campbell, begins to suspect the common denominator between a number of apparent abductions is exclusive co-educational Ridley College, her old school. Amanda’s ghastly discovery leads to a devastatingly brutal and bloody confrontation at 'Eaglehawk', Andrew Fisher’s deserted country farmhouse.
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JMPR is based in Adelaide and services local and national accounts. The consultancy was established in late 1986, and is a full service public relations consultancy.
Travel writing sample: Travelling with foot-in-mouth disease
I was in Cambodia touring the temples of Angkor. My guide Ree, was staring at me with a look of utter horror on his face. I was smiling broadly before the penny dropped, and realised I had made one of life’s awful tourist gaffes.
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