Columbia Basin photographer | Toni Johnson
“Hi! I’m Toni Johnson and I am a natural light photographer living in the Columbia Basin of Washington state, which is prime ground for agriculture. That’s a good thing since my day job is as an accounting assistant for a large farm, which provides for a variety of photo opportunities from planting to harvest, farm hands to machinery, and everything in between.
My boss has often accused me of being anal – and that is a good thing at work. It also best explains my love of “focusing on the details” and of macro photography. I find beauty in the smallest of details and I strive to share that beauty in my images.”
“My love for photography started at an early age with a Kodak Instamatic camera – they were popular little things at the time. I was also fascinated with Polaroids and loved to give the photo a completely unnecessary shake and blow to help “speed” up the processing. When my children were little I had a Canon T50 35mm film camera, which I used for almost twenty years – and I still have it. My first digital SLR was also a Canon – a Rebel XTi. I just added a Canon 7D to my equipment list. (I’m in love!)
My spare time is spent in building my budding portrait studio. I also spend time with my two dogs – a Springer Spaniel named Buddy and a Boston Terrier named Buster – and when time allows, you’ll find me in my kiln-formed glass studio. I am the mother to two adult sons who live at opposite ends of the state, plus a recently added daughter-in-law, and love it when I get the opportunity to hang out with my kids.”
