Julie Masterson has been a fine arts photographer by profession and an adventure traveler by avocation since 1982.

Her training includes study with master photographers; Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Richard Misrach, and Robert Glen Ketchum. She has done course work at Pasadena City College, the Idyllwild Arts Academy, Otis Parsons Art Institute and the Art Center College of Design.

Julie makes her work available through exhibitions and multimedia presentations. She has had over thirty exhibitions of her work thoughout California and New Mexico, including fifteen one-woman shows. Her work is included in corporate collections and has received numerous awards.  Publications include Arts of Asia, Photographers Forum:  Best of Photography, Artists of the Mendocino Coast.

Julie has inspired audiences nationwide with her live multimedia performances. She was filmed as a nature photographer for the national television series "Wild Things", and she is developing a series of live Internet telecasts featuring all aspects of her photography. She owned and managed the Idyllwild Gallery of Fine Art for ten years. Now living in Mendocino, California, she is currently a permanent artist in the Edgewater Gallery and also shows at Stevenswood Resort and Spa.

Julie photographs locally amid the varied landscapes of California, and far afield in the remote recesses of Antarctica, Arabia,  Africa, South America, Patagonia and Tibet. Her images are a window to the world within all of us - one of contemplation, serenity and bliss far removed from the leaf blower and rap music of urban life.


"My photographs pay homage
to the spiritual impulse
still to be found in
the contemporary world.
These 'traces of the spiritual'
are the inspiration
for my photography -
whether encountered
in the purity of the natural landscape,
or in the creations of man
that honor his spiritual essence."