The photographic “eye” of JD Marston.....was formed, as a young teen, by absorbing National Geographic, as well as Elliott Porter’s classic photographs, “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World”, published in 1962, by the Sierra Club - who, 30 years later, awarded JD their prestigious Ansel Adams Award.
Twelve years classical violin study, and later, work in the cabinetry and blacksmithing fields developed JDs appreciation for beauty, durability, fine finish, and detail.
During the same period of time, JD studied Traditional Oriental Medicine, searching for the source of health and happiness. This search led him to India where he lived as a yogi-monk for 7 years with a Teacher in the foothills of the Himalayas, as his inner sensitivity to the mystery of life was deepened.
JD later returned to the US with a vision to share and since then, has used photography to communicate the spiritually therapeutic presence of “the eternal” in nature.
Recipient of numerous awards, including the Ansel Adams Award and The Ernst Haas Scholarship, JD receives acclaim for his art:
“JD Marston’s photography is an intimate vastness. One sees the mountain and ends up caring about every pine needle in the forest,” says Elden Hughes, Sierra Club Honors and Awards Committee.
The Columbus Disptach reiterates: “...another person imitating Marston’s method would be unlikely to approach the physical and spiritual grandeur of his vision”.
JDs images have been used by clients as diverse as: Disney, Inc.; Toyota; COORS; Sun Microsystems; IBM; VISA; Taco-Bell; Dorset Press (Barnes & Noble); Random House, Inc.; Hallmark, Inc.; Vail Assoc.; McDonnell Douglas; The Environmental Defense Fund; The Nature Conservancy; MCI; Baby Einstein; CH2MHill
To keep his art in touch with what is pure and simple, JD lives a simple quiet lifestyle - that of a Fine Art Landscape Photographer, similar to that which he lived as a monk, with his main focus on the needs of his clients, the spiritual essence of aesthetics, photography, and meditation.