Karen Johnson – A Photographic Life
Traveling down life's road with my Fuji Cameras and iPhone in hand
Oneironaut
“Oneironaut” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
“Onironaut”
Onironaut is a person who has the ability to travel in a dream. In this work she has help from a dream machine. This work was created using various bit and bobs from my own photography and creations via text prompts in Midjourney. I then brought all those elements together to create this unique piece.
The News Break
“The News Break” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Composited using numerous Midjourney renderings and art pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in photoshop to create this piece. I came up with the idea a few years ago and had forgotten about it until I started looking back into my old idea journals.
My idea was to have a woman with a dress made out of newspapers and then I started to think about her escaping from a painting. I added in the paper shredder to allow the viewer to decide if she is created from it or is she running from it. It’s a story only the viewer can tell.
The Secret In The Library
“The Secret In The Library” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
A combination of my photography combined with AI. I was thinking about my Nancy Drew books and the Jasper Fjord “Tuesday Next” series when I created this. I love libraries so it’s a fun subject for me to create with.
How Did We End Up Here?
“How Did We End Up Here?” ©2014 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
“How Did We End Up Here?” Bowling alley was a photograph I took of an abandoned bowling alley at Fort Adams in Newport, RI and ran it through AI. Penguins are AI Generated and the right hand wall has an image I took of Wampus Brook a long time ago. Heavy duty adjusting and mixing in Photoshop. Added the snow because the Penguins needed it.
Zeus & Darwin’s Birthday Adventures
“Zeus & Darwin’s Birthday Adventures” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
A combination of my photography and Midjourney ai generated elements.
Artemis & Murph
“Artemis & Murph” @2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Meet “Artemis & Murph”. Composited from my images and characters I created in AI and morphed (more Frankensteined) together in Photoshop.
The dog, Murph, was inspired by this really sweet and kind Pit Bull I see on my walks in Wampus Brook Park. His name is Skinny, 8 years old, and he is the sweetest and most super chilled out dog.
It’s Alive!
“It’s Alive!” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Happy Halloween!
A composite of my images with AI.
The Ties That Bind Us
A combination of my own photographic images with AI.
Hippo-Therapy
“Hippo-Therapy ©2023 Karen Johnson All RIghts Reserved
The Way to Lunch
The Way to Lunch ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Ramp leading to a forgotten cafeteria in an old asylum. I found it interesting that you had to walk a ramp to get there.
“The Woman in the Forgotten Room”
“The Woman in the Forgotten Room” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
The hotel room I photographed in an abandoned resort in New York. I ran the image through Midjourney AI to get it in a style reflective of Hopper. The woman is a vintage photograph that I also ran through Midjourney to get the face and expression changed. The suitcase, pocketbook and newspaper are generated through Photoshop Beta’s new Generative Fill” which is a game changer when it comes to compositing images.
I like working with my own images and using AI to push them even further.
Hunters Point
“Hunters Point” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Hunters Point in Long Island City. One of my favorite places to visit.
Three Little Maids From School
“Three Little Maids From School” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
There is something so desolate about abandoned bathrooms.
I’m Here To Serve You
“I’m Here To Serve You” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Blue Room
“Blue Room” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Photographed at an old abandoned hotel. Loved the blue wall and the falling ceiling. I can’t wait for the warm weather to come back so I can get back to exploring.
LIC Street Art
“LIC Street Art” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Wonderful street art in Long Island City this morning.
Sinuous Rise
“Sinuous Rise” ©2022 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
A Glance Back
“A Glance Back” ©2022 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
I have been working with MidJourney, an Artificial Intelligence program, using my abandoned photography. The haunted building in this building was created using a photography I took of an abandoned building at New York Farm Colony and adding descriptive text to produce this. The man and the ghost to the left were characters are generated in AI and the ghost on the right is an image I photographed at a Halloween Haunt I had permission to photograph this past fall.
I love the ability to create stories using both my photography and AI.
Aria
“Aria” ©2022 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Photographed this old opera house this past weekend. I love the architecture.
Things Forgotten…
Photographed at Wilson Castle in Protor, Vermont.
Dark Circus
Composite of AI generated prompts as well as my own photography. Inspired by “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
The Walls Talk To Me
This is a composite of an AI text prompt by me in Midjourney that created the room, my photography of the model, and a background from a painting at the Museum of Modern Art. I colorized the room because the prompt gave me a black and white image. The ai prompt was a a room with walls made out of a variety of faces, haunting, moody, photography, canon 35mm lens. The rest I added to make it my own vision. I really love the creepy feel of it!
Fire Angel
Combining Ai prompt term generated art using Midjourney and my photography. Background is abandoned Scranton Lace.
Angelic Being
I discovered a great ai generating site called “Midjourney”. It is an ai powered system that generates art through text. I have been learning how to use through youtube videos. For Angelic Being I used the terms: “highly detailed full body character of an angelic figure with wings, full body, in the style of terry gilliam, angelic face, highly detailed, photo realistic, dark fantasy atmosphere, 8K, octane render, unreal engine”. Those terms produced the above.
My goal is to incorporate what is produced into my images. I’m still playing around and learning how to really push it and get what I am looking for. All I know is that I am having a blast with it!
Silver Deco
The Education of a Young Woman
Abandoned detention center.
Twins Pretending To Be King
Oak and Iron
Officer’s quarters photographed at Fort Adams, Newport, RI.
The creaking of a door …
Officer’s Rooms Fort Adams, Newport Rhode Island
To Seize A Brush, To Plaster Your Thoughts
Forever Sleeping
“I Know Places To Hide”
Photographed at an abandoned Tuberculosis hospital.
And It Stirs My Blood Like Wine
Photographed at Tewksbury Asylum in Tewksbury, MA. I love the face image in the tub where the faucets would have been.
Memory of a Mansion
Grand living room photographed at the Wheeler Mansion. I just loved the light and detail in this room. Still such beauty in this room.
Office Blues
Another image from the Wheeler Mansion. Love the blue walls and architectural details.
Pretty In Pink
Pink Bathroom at the Wheeler Mansion in Orange, MA. Owners are starting to renovate for an Air BnB. This mansion was featured in HuLu’s “Castle Rock”. I just love this color combination.
Nature’s Bedding
Abandoned Hotel and Spa Resort in upstate New York. I love the moss growing on the bed and carpet. That spark of orange in the carpet goes beautifully with the moss green!
Double Suite
Photographed at an abandoned hotel in upstate New York. The wallpaper is the best!
Hedylogos
Photographed at an abandoned hotel in upstate New York. Incorporated two paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Added wine bottle, remote and cigarette and smoke.
Waveny Park Winter December 2021 No. 1
Hoover Clean
Old abandoned hotel in upstate New York.
“Va Va Voom”
Photographed at an abandoned tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York. I loved the collage look of the graffiti.
“The Uninvited”
Portals
Whispers In The Hallway
“Whispers In The Hallway” ©2021 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
Photographed at an abandoned Tuberculosis Asylum. The hallways stretched on forever. I liked the little pops of color from the graffiti but just the length of this hallway alone was so interesting.
It Is Balloon!
I had a wonderful day photographing an Abandoned Asylum with Silver Crescent Photography and Buried By Time. The red balloon caught my eye. I loved the partial wall still left so that you could see down several rooms. Love photographing these old places and meeting like minded photographers.
Red Hall
Photographed an abandoned detention center this past weekend. This has to be one of the best hallways I’ve photographed. Between the color and peeling paint I just love it!
ECC 2021
My submission to the Edinburgh Collage Challenge 2021. We had to use a cassette tape or parts of for our collage. All images are mine except for the painting, “Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) Queen of Spain” by Velaquez from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access and the tape mass I used for hair which is by Dan-Cristian Paduret on Unsplashed.
PCC Week 22/2021
This weeks submission to the Paris Collage Collective Challange. The original image I was given by the PCC is by Jake Bluker on Unsplashed.
The background sky and city you can see through the tunnel is my image of New York City at sunset from Gantry Park. The nude is “Odalisque” by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Befriending the Beneath
Randy and Bogart
“Befriending the Beneath” ©2023 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved
My abandoned photography with elements for Midjourney AI and Adobe Firefly. I named them Randy and Bogart.
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