Stephen Johnson is a landscape/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 December 2025

Flowering Trees. Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, CA 2020.

Flowering Trees. Golden Gate Park. 2020.

After using this as my Archive Photograph last month, there were inquiries as to whether I could make it the next month’s Featured Print, so here it is.

These flowering trees next to Blue Heron Lake were magical in the soft light early in the Urban Eden project.

I’m offering an unmatted 14-inch-wide print of this photograph for $195. Larger prints can be ordered. This print at this price is offered through December 31. I'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by January 15, 2025. The image reverts to its normal price after that, $800 for an 11x14, $1500 for a 16x20 print.These flowering trees next to Blue Heron Lake were magical in the soft light early in the Urban Eden project.

I’m offering an unmatted 14-inch-wide print of this photograph for $195. Larger prints can be ordered. This print at this price is offered through December 31. I'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by January 15, 2025. The image reverts to its normal price after that, $800 for an 11x14, $1500 for a 16x20 print.

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NEW PHOTOGRAPH November 2025

Sky and Reflections. 2025.

A quick trip to the big valley sent me to a Sand Hill Crane Reserve just to check in. Only a few cranes were in the air, but the sounds from them, and the Geese were wonderful, as was the sky and reflections. The only wide angle I had on me was the iPhone, the longer views were with the Fuji GFX100s and my Canon R5.

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Announcing the December 2025 Newsletter

This month's View From Here column explores my expansion of the Urban Eden Golden Gate Park show into a 50 print version, with a new catalog. The Lighscape installation in the SF Botanical Garden is featured, and the ongoing process of my studio move out is discussed.

The preview of my Urban Eden Golden Gate Park exhibit has expanded to a much fuller exhibition now growing to fully occupy the Hallway Gallery. The Opening Reception for Urban Eden Selections was December 6 2-5pm This collection has been many decades in the making and I am pleased with the expansion from the summer preview into a more full representation of the work.

Buckeye. California Native Garden. SF Botanical Garden, Golden Gate Park. 2020.

With my studio/gallery closing at the end of January, my existing exhibitions I have created are available for loan to museums and galleries. They include With a New Eye: The Digital National Parks Project, Exquisite Earth, selections from The Great Central Valley Project and the 50 Years of Space Photography. You can check out the exhibit loan possibilities here.

I have scheduled a Fine Art Digital Printing class for March 7-10, 2026 and is now half-full. If you want to join me, register soon.

Now Four New Books: Catalogs from the recent exhibitions are now available in my gallery and online.

The Gallery will be open Saturday December 20 from 2-5pm and most Saturday’s 2-5pm into January 2026, also when I am here working, and by appointment. Call or email to set up a time to visit 650 355-7507.

— Steve

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Upcoming Speaking Events and Workshops

Featured
Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Feb 7
Workshops
Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Workshops

Winter in Yosemite Valley is a transformed world. Trees are wet and dark, the oaks are bare. The cliffs are blanketed with snow. Weather moves through in waves of clouds and mist. Ponds and river edges are frozen. There is usually snow on the valley floor. Visitors are dramatically fewer in number. Our three days together will likely be cold, but we will no doubt be warmed by the special beauty that winter brings to this grand valley. Although we will carpool to various locations, I hope our basic mode of transportation through the valley will be our feet. There is really no other way to come to know a place. 

Workshops
Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Feb 26
Workshops
Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Workshops

Since 1979 I have led winter photography workshops to Death Valley. I keep returning to this desert because there is a magic here, a quiet and vast expanse of sensual and strange earthworks, remarkable in color, resting under the soft winter light of January.

We will spend our first half day preparing for our outings. Topics covered will be optimal digital camera use in a variety of formats, file size and printing considerations. We will open files, review success, constantly going back in the field putting into practice lessons learned.

Workshops
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class
Mar 7
Workshops
Masterful Fine Art Digital Photography Printing Class
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. During four days of lectures, printing, and feedback, this class focuses on improving your fine-art digital printing in his studio. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers.

Workshops
Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra Field Photography Class
Oct 17
Workshops
Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra Field Photography Class
Workshops

Join us for four days exploring photography in the stark and beautiful scenery of this legendary lake, unlike any other landscape in the world. Its alkaline water, desert vistas, volcanoes and unusual tufa towers make it a remarkable place. The workshop will be taught by the pioneer in digital landscape photography, Stephen Johnson. Also the organizer of the "At Mono Lake" exhibition from which selections are currently on display at the National Forest Visitor's Center. Steve has been teaching at Mono Lake for more than 40 years.

Workshops

In the Galleries

Location: Stephen Johnson Photography. Pacifica Center for the Arts

Current Featured Exhibition

Urban Eden Golden Gate Park

This expandied now fully occupies the Hallway Gallery. The Opening Reception for Urban Eden Selections was December 6 2-5pm This collection has been many decades in the making and I am pleased with the expansion from the summer preview into a more full representation of the work

Buckeye. SF Botanical Garden.. 2020.

Urban Eden Installation. 2025

Prints in the Gallery

There are always new prints available to see in the gallery, from the Hale Telescope, to the Golden Gate Park Project, to the evolving Animal Series and new selections in the discounted print bins.

Current Exhibitions

The current exhibitions in the gallery include 50 Years of Portraits exhibition, and the Golden Gate Park project preview. Continuing in the main gallery is my Life Form exhibition.

Visiting the Gallery

My galleries and studio are generally open by appointment, but I am often there 10am–5pm on weekdays. Write to inquire or call 650 355-7507 to schedule an appointment.

I hope you can come by the gallery and see the original prints in the Life Form Gallery and its Life Form Portfolio. I invite you to join me on a workshop, rent lab space, or just say hello and let me know what you are up to photographically and what you might like to see me offer. I value your input.

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