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.

 

Announcing the September 2024 Newsletter

Clouds, Sun and Sea. Pedro Point. Pacifica, CA. 2024.

A needed walk up to our local headland of Pedro Point proved a very good move. As I neared the top of the ridge I could see the fog line, then reaching the cliff’s edge, rock towers reaching through the fog. It was quite a view.

I’m offering a 11-inch-wide print of this photograph for $195. Larger prints can be ordered. This print at this price is offered through October 31, 2024. I'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by November 15, 2024. The image reverts to its normal price after that, $800 for an 11x14, $1500 for a 16x20.

Announcing the October 2024 Newsletter

Hello to my guests and subscribers. Thanks for opening my October 2024 newsletter announcement.

This month's View From Here column wanders through a few landscapes, some wanders, some animals and my new guests artist.

My third Guest Photographer Exhibition is now up in my gallery featuring Ted Orland’s Old Favorites & New Discoveries exhibition October 1 through November 15, 2024. Opening Reception October 6 from 1-4pm.

The Gallery will be open every Saturday through October from 11am to 4pm and this Sunday 1-4pm for Ted’s Opening!!

My next class is the Advanced Fine Art Printing class coming up November 30-December 1.

The next Print Showing/sharing event 3pm on October 28. Email below to RSVP and reserve a spot to share. More info below. 

— Steve

Upcoming Speaking Events and Workshops

Featured
Advanced Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on Workshop
Nov 30
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Advanced Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-on Workshop
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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.

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Image Editing Two Day Intensive
Jan 11
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Image Editing Two Day Intensive
Workshops

This is a great chance to explore digital photographic editing with Steve in his custom built digital lab. Full lab access and your own work station with hands-on help and demonstrations of his use of editing tools with restraint and finesse will benefit all of your digital photography work. This class is designed with the time to really understand the processes, and to work through difficult images.

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Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Jan 28
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Death Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
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January 7 is the deadline to register for this class.

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.

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Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
Feb 1
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Yosemite Valley in Winter Field Photography Class
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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. 

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Featured Print October 2024

Clouds, Sun and Sea. Pedro Point. Pacifica, CA. 2024.

A needed walk up to our local headland of Pedro Point proved a very good move. As I neared the top of the ridge I could see the fog line, then reaching the cliff’s edge, rock towers reaching through the fog. It was quite a view.

I’m offering a 11-inch-wide print of this photograph for $195. Larger prints can be ordered. This print at this price is offered through October 31, 2024. I'll be taking orders until then, and shipping them out by November 15, 2024. The image reverts to its normal price after that, $800 for an 11x14, $1500 for a 16x20.

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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