Frederick, Maryland resident Martin Heavner is an amateur photographer who has exhibited his work at the Maryland State House, Maryland Governor’s Mansion, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and galleries throughout the region.  In addition, his images have been published in magazines, calendars, and electronic greeting cards.

He enjoys photographing all subjects, but he favors landscapes, city-scapes, vintage cars, machinery, and abstracts of architectural and industrial scenes.  He also loves capturing outdoor scenes with cameras modified for infrared photography.

Martin studied photojournalism at West Virginia University and refined his approach to fine art photography under Smithsonian photographer and educator Lowell Anson Kenyon.  Other inspirations include Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bressai, Freeman Patterson, A. Aubrey Bodine, DeWitt Jones, and Ansel Adams, and painters Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne.

Martin frequently judges photography competitions and was a juror for the multi-media Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College, Pennsylvania, which is one of the largest gatherings of artists and craftsmen in the nation.

He is member and past president of the Frederick Camera Clique and a former member of the Gaithersburg and NIH camera clubs.  Currently, he is the vice chair of the photography committee of the Allegany Arts Council in Cumberland, Maryland, where he helps to organize the annual Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition each April. This past year, he was the curator of a companion exhibit of A. Aubrey Bodine’s Western Maryland images, shown together for the first time ever, and later donated to Frostburg State University.

More of Martin’s images can be seen at his website, www.HeavnerPhoto.com, and his Instagram account, @m.heavner.