John Stier is a retired software developer and has lived in Columbia, MD since 1988. ​He has had the good fortune to travel extensively within the United States and to visit locales in four different continents.  John also loves to hike, backpack and ski (downhill and cross country).  These activities give him the opportunity to witness settings that many do not get to see. 

 

Photography provides a medium for him to share these experiences with others.  The intention is to capture some of the sense of being someplace special.  In travels to cities and other more accessible venues, it is still a goal to portray the experience of being there.  The challenge is to do so in an artistically pleasing manner.

 

Publishing credits include:

• Nature’s Best Photography Magazine

• Peterson’s Photographic Magazine

• Cover 2018 Howard County, MD phone book

• BlueRidge Country Magazine

• The Baltimore Sun

• The Virginian Pilot (Norfolk)

• The Cystic Fibrosis Calendar

• The Stephenson Calendar

• Over a dozen cover photos for the Ski Club of Washington DC Magazine.

• Several text books 

 

John has won numerous awards in local and national competitions. Highlights include:

• First Place Photography in the Nov. 1992 Art League Member Show (Torpedo Factory)

• Equal Award in the September 1996 Art League Show

• Grand Prize winner in the 1997 Apogee Photo Magazine National Park contest

• Honorable mention in the 1999 Patuxent Art League juried show

• Grand Prize Winner in the April 2003 Apogee Photo Magazine “Winter” contest

• Several Honorable Mention Awards in the Art League Shows

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John is a current member of the Artists’ Gallery of Ellicott City, MD, the Art League Gallery in Alexandria, VA and the Central Maryland Photographers Guild.  He has mounted One-Artist Exhibits at:

• Artists’ Gallery of Ellicott City

• The Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Alexandria, VA

• Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah

• The Mill River Gallery in Ellicott City

• The Foundry Street Gallery.

 

Other galleries in which he has exhibited include:

• University of Iowa Museum of Art

• Slayton House in Columbia, MD

• Montpelier Cultural Art Center in Laurel, MD

• Gallery on the Circle in Annapolis, MD

• Howard County Maryland Conservancy

• Savage Mill in Savage, MD

• Howard County Maryland Visitor Center