Bill Johnson's photography focuses on the natural world with giclee canvas images of nature, critters, and landscapes.

He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and acquired an early appreciation of photography with his dad's cameras on extended family vacations across the country.  Mom, who returned to school to earn a second degree in art, instilled a fundamental sense of design, color, and composition ... but as a song once noted, "We move on ... put those dreams away ... thinking that we'll find them ... come some rainy day."

The chosen path led instead to a Mechanical Engineering degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a 35-year career as a rocket scientist in Southern California on the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.  He finally rediscovered his dream in 2006 and with the encouragement of his son, daughter, and niece initiated "Wish you were here ..." offering limited edition prints at local art shows.

Bill is a member of the Photographic Society of Orange County, the Photographers' Exchange, the Orange County Fine Arts association, the Huntington Beach Art League, and the Monrovia Association of Fine Artists.  He exhibits at the Artist Eye Laguna Gallery, the Showcase Gallery in South Coast Plaza Village, the MAFA Gallery in Old Town Monrovia, the Wild Heart Gallery in Carmel Valley, and art walks and festivals throughout Southern California.

Bill's unique images simply try to recreate those magical moments when the shutter originally clicked to thoughts of "Wish you were here ..."

visit Bill's web site at www.Wishyouwerehere.ifp3.com