Stephen Johnson is a landscape and natural world photographer and author who photographs and teaches with great passion, and an educator leading photographic workshop experiences of high craft for four decades.

 

FEATURED PRINT November 2024

Pelicans at Bird Rock. Point Lobos Reserve. Carmel, CA. 2024.

Strolling Point Lobos is always enjoyable, even after I’ve been so many times. In open sun if often looks much the same, but on this day I was greeted with huge numbers of Pelicans on the rocks between the trail and the island. Late afternoon light had this bird gathering backlit and made for a very inure experience.

I’m offering a 14-inch-wide print of this photograph for $195. Larger prints can be ordered. This print at this price is offered through November 30 2024. I'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by December 15, 2024. The image reverts to its normal price after that, $800 for an 11x14, $1500 for a 16x20.

Announcing the November 2024 Newsletter

Hello to my guests and subscribers. Thanks for visiting my November 2024 newsletter.

This month's View From Here column features a new exhibition, photographs from recent outings, project research for my Golden Gate Park exhibit and an announcement of my 20th Anniversary Holiday Open House on Saturday December 7 from noon to 5pm.

My next guest photographer is Marion Patterson’s Intimate Landscapes opens November 24 with a Opening Reception from 1-4pm. My third Guest Photographer Exhibition remains up in my gallery featuring Ted Orland’s Old Favorites & New Discoveries through November 21, 2024.

The Gallery will be open every Saturday through November from 11am to 4pm.

My next class is the Advanced Fine Art Printing class coming up November 30-December 1 with my two-day Image Editing class coming up January 11-12, 2025.

— Steve

Upcoming Speaking Events and Workshops

Featured
Lecture: 12 Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography
Nov 18
Events
Lecture: 12 Steps to Improve Your Digital Photography
Events

Common problems make for common grief. In this lecture Stephen Johnson addresses many of the problems that come up for people, often with the user not even knowing what is going wrong. These issues are covered with a clarity and in a context so that their purpose and problem causing potential is understood and able to be applied to a photographer's workflow immediately.

Events
Marion Patterson’s Intimate Landscapes exhibition Opening Reception
Nov 24
Exhibitions, Events
Marion Patterson’s Intimate Landscapes exhibition Opening Reception
Exhibitions, Events

I’m not sure when Marion and I first met, but we agree it was a long time ago. We had been friends for years when she invited me to apply to teach with her at Foothill College for a full-time photography instructor position. Although after a year into my time there, I came to the conclusion I did not want the job, Marion and I have remained friends for decades. I’ve always admired the directness and sensitivity of her photographs. Marion’s photographs were among the first I thought of when I decided to start my Guest Photographer Series.

Exhibitions, Events
Advanced Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on Workshop
Nov 30
Workshops
Advanced Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on Workshop
Workshops

Give tangible physical existence to your photographs and create the only lasting form of your work, fine-art prints, as beautiful hand-made renderings.

This workshop focuses exclusively on improving your fine-art digital printing in our fully-equipped Digital Lab using pigment inkjet printers. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during four days of lectures, printing, and feedback in the studio.

Workshops
Twentieth Anniversary Open House
Dec 7
Events
Twentieth Anniversary Open House
Events

Come join me to celebrate the holidays and the Twentieth Anniversary of my studio at the Pacifica Center for the Arts!

In mid-2004 we started building out three classrooms and big hallway on the old Sanchez Elementary School into what I envisioned as a first class gallery, digital classroom and working studio. By the time we had our Grand Opening that December, the transformation was complete and we have been running classes, lectures, exhibitions and creating decades of new work ever sense. Hundreds of students and thousands of visitors later, we are celebrating those 20 years this December.

Events

In the Galleries

Location: Stephen Johnson Photography. Pacifica Center for the Arts

Life Form and With a New Eye selections are currently on view.

Guest Photographer Exhibition Series

In line with the adage “do maximum good,” my gallery space is expanding its roster of exhibiting artists. I am inaugurating a Guest Photographer Exhibition Series in July for six-week runs of photographers whose work I admire and want the public to see.

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