John’s interests range from panoramic vistas to abstract close-ups. He uses digital equipment to capture, process, and print images. John is a member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society, where he earned “Photographer of the Year” honors for his color prints in 2014. John is a sociologist, and a recently retired researcher with the federal government. John enjoys active vacations with his artist wife (Lynn Martin), taking advantage of their frequent travels to capture interesting places and people with his camera. His photographs in this exhibition were taken during their 2014 plein air painting trip to Laroque in the south of France. While his wife and other “Laroquettes” painted the beautiful scenes before them, John captured them and their subjects with his camera.