About Peter Walton

Peter Walton is a Melbourne based photographer with a lifetime of professional experience. When he was a teenager his father, a commercial artist, gave him his first camera. He was immediately hooked on the magic of creating images.

He chose to pursue photography as a full time profession and completed a diploma in advertising at the RMIT University … and later made the giant leap into setting up his own photo studio in South Melbourne, a decision that led to some wonderful photographic opportunities.

When digital photography arrived he set up Australia’s first digital image library, Australian Scenics. It became very successful and led to numerous international assignments shooting images for travel company brochures.

His travel assignments have included:

World Expeditions: Nepal, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, China, Laos, Cambodia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Kakadu and Tasmania’s Tarkine Wilderness

Australian Pacific Tours (APT): Cape York, The Kimberley Region, A shipboard cruise around the Baltic sea ports.

Oceania Cruises: New Zealand and numerous Asian ports.

Peregrine Tours: Vietnam.

Jetset Tours: UK, Singapore and Indonesia,

Malaysia Airlines: East and West Malaysia. 

PHOTOGRAPHY FOR COFFEE TABLE BOOKS

• “Australia’s Most Scenic Drives” for Reader’s Digest, a motoring guide book. Over 140,000 copies were sold.

• “Landscape Australia” published by Portside Editions.

• “Tasmania” and “Red Centre” published by Curry O’Neill  Ross

• “Australien” and “Australie”, joint book projects with National Geographic photographer Matthias Breiter for Mondo Verlag Switzerland.

CALENDARS

• Corporate calendar of Australian landscapes for Kodak Australia.

• Retail calendars for Australia Post and Australian Geographic.

• Corporate calendar for Malaysia Airlines.

• The images on this website are a selection of some of Peter’s favourites. They demonstrate his unique personal style, which, as he puts it, aims to “Keep them simple and capture the essence of each situation”.