Kevin P. Johnson - Artist: Photography

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Giant Swallowtail Papilo Cresphontes or Murray the Butterfly

Photo taken in Metairie, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

Photo taken of the this Giant Swallowtail Papilo Cresphontes . . . I decided his name was Murray the Butterfly instead.

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Falstaff

Photos taken in New Orleans, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

Photo taken of the Falstaff sign in New Orleans, Louisiana. I took this from my car on the interstate.

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Nuclear New Orleans

Photos taken in New Orleans, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

This is actually the sun over New Orleans but with some slight adjustment in Photoshop it looks like a nuclear explosion.

Thanks for looking,
Kevin P. Johnson

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Purple Pumpkin

Photos taken in Gretna, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

A little purple pumpkin . . . or is it a jack o' lantern? This was on the counter at the Wendy's in Gretna and I thought that I needed to take a picture of it . . . only one person in the line commented on me just randomly taking a picture in a line of about twenty people saying "that thing is pretty cool" I said "yeah it is." The End!

Thanks for looking,
- Kevin P. Johnson

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Vote Early

Photos taken in Gretna, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

This as political as I get . . . no party, no talking crap about the other guy, no ulterior motive. Vote for who you think is best and shut up.

Thanks for looking,
- Kevin P. Johnson

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Skeleton's at Wendy's

Photos taken in Gretna, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while I've been working on stuff for my other blog www.ahhhmonsters.blogspot.com for my 31 Monsters in 31 Days project. Anyway I was at the Wendy's in Gretna, LA today and although I had posted on Facebook a cell phone version of this about a week ago I wanted to take some with the real camera. I think they came out kinda cool and creepy the black and white version looks a lot better to me than the color.

Thanks for looking,
- Kevin P. Johnson

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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Ella And The Boxing Butterfly

The Boxing Butterfly was drawn on Canson XL Series using various ink pens and Copic Markers. Drawn in 2014.

Photos taken in Covington, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photos taken in 2014

So I did a little show at 2nd & Charles in Covington, LA a few weeks ago and it was pretty terrible I was stuck hidden in a corner wedged between two other artist and almost nobody came up to my table because they couldn't see me or thought I was just part of the other peoples stuff, needless to say I didn't sell anything. The good thing was I got to see some family and friends and that made the day worthwhile. During this whole thing my niece Ella requested . . . demanded . . . a free drawing of a butterfly. So as I was drawing it I said "Should he have boxing gloves on?" she said "yes" as if it were even a question.

The last photo was not purposefully made to have that darkened oval around it, that happend because of the way the extra zoom lens I had on it wasn't focused correctly but I like the effect it caused.

- Kevin

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Masters of the Universe Man-E-Faces

Photos taken in Metairie, LA
Camera used Nikon D40
Photo taken in 2014

Well I took my Masters of the Universe Man-E-Faces action figure out with me to test out some different things with my camera, different modes and trying to see what different this would do. I took a bunch since he has three different faces but I cut him down to 13 images and one black and white version I created in Adobe Photoshop just to see if I could make the monster version of Man-E-Faces a little creepier. I'm not sure what happened on images 4 & 5 but I really love them. The figure glowing and the background being in focus looks pretty awesome to me. Once again it's pretty fun to take toys out into the world for photographs.

- Kevin

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Masters of the Universe Buzz-Off


Buzz-Off - Photo Copyright ©2014 Kevin P. Johnson Buzz-Off Action Figure Copyright ©1983 Mattel Inc.

Photo taken in Metairie, LA
Camera used Nikon D40
Photo taken in 2014

I got my first action figure since I started to collect the Masters of the Universe toys. This guy is called Buzz-Off and he is actually my fifth figure in my collection. I have four others that I will talk about in a later post but this is the first one that I have bought since probably 1983.

This action figure is in pretty great shape but he doesn't have his weapon which makes me still in the hunt for that but he did come with the mini-comic He-Man and the Insect People.

I need to build a light box so I can take nice pictures of my toys.

- Kevin

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Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Thing Takes A Trip To The Library

Photo taken at the Jefferson Parish Library East Bank Regional location.
Camera used Nikon D40
Photo taken in 2014

Today I had to go return a few movies to the library and I thought I'd bring my Mighty Muggs The Thing action figure with me and take a few pictures. Taking pictures of toys in places that they don't naturally belong is pretty fun and leads to what I hope to be interesting images.

- Kevin

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Batgirl Loves The Rancor . . . True Love . . . Real Talk

Photo taken in Metairie, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

Just being silly with some action figures.

DC Comics Elseworlds Batgirl Thrillkiller (2007)
Kenner Star Wars Rancor Monster (1983)

Got the Rancor from my friend (Teeth painted red when I got it) these two have been on the shelf for months like this I can only assume that it's true love. The flash kind of killed the picture but I still wanted to post this one.

- Kevin P. Johnson

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Hot Wheels From The 1970's

Photo taken in Metairie, LA

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

These photos are of my three surviving Hot Wheels cars from the 1970's which happen to also be my three favorite cars of all time.

1977 Hot Wheels Hot Bird
1974 Hot Wheels Mustang Stocker
1977 Hot Wheels ? (not sure what the name of this one is)

Interesting story about the 1974 Mustang Stocker, this was my favorite car as a child . . . it beat all other cars and everyone knew that I loved it. Well one day at my grandmothers house it was either lost or stolen by one of my cousins (we never found out) but it was gone and I cried as if my dog had died. I thought it was lost forever until my Aunt Janie came over one day and she had a brand new one . . . my young life had meaning once again. Eventually that one was lost as well at some point during my childhood and it was never replaced until about 7 years ago I had this urge to find some of the toys from my childhood and I went on eBay and found this one . . . beat up, scuffed and scratched and worth ever cent of the $35 that I paid for it. It lives on a shelf with other toys and junk now but it is my precious.

- Kevin P. Johnson

Friday, July 4, 2014

Galactus Takes In Some Nature

Photo taken in Metairie, LA at Severn Pointe Apartment Complex

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

This was just having a little fun with my Galactus Mighty Muggs action figure while walking the dog. I like how these photographs came out . . . I even got down on my belly to take some of these . . . that's what they call dedication ha, ha, ha.

- Kevin P. Johnson

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

HOT

Photo taken in Metairie, LA at Pho Orchid Express

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

OK so this one it totally random and it has no real meaning or hidden meaning it's just HOT sauce and stuff. BTW did you see that T-Rex arm I drew? That thing was awesome!

- Kevin P. Johnson

93 Was A Good Year

Photo taken in Metairie, LA at Pho Orchid Express

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

This random photo actually has some meaning outside of what it actually is. In 1993 I was in college, I had a girlfriend, I had big dreams and I believed that life was going to be amazing and wonderful. It was a time of hope, a time that I felt really good about everything in my life . . . maybe one day I'll tell you about 1994.

If you follow this blog you will find out that objects or random things will have hidden meanings . . . hopefully I'll let you know about them.

- Kevin P. Johnson

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Plastic Car

Photo taken in Gretna, LA/New Orleans border line

Camera used Nikon D40

Photo taken in 2014

Well I got a phone call as I'm leaving work saying "hey do you have your camera? There is some kids car thing by that yellow building that used to be blue, it looks like something you'd want to take a picture of." So of course I stopped and this is what we got. I like the last one with the sunrise building in the background (I was hoping that would come out clear).

- Kevin P. Johnson

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