Songbird Images
Rob Johnson
Rob’s passion for photography started while he was in public school in northern Ontario. He converted part of the crawl space below the family’s basement stairs into a dark room around which he hung blankets. His mom, a writer for the Sault Daily Star, obtained an obsolete enlarger from the newspaper, helped her son order chemicals, and supervised his trial and errors of adjusting the developer baths before leaving him to it. The first photo he developed was of a snow sculpture he’d packed with his brothers of Canada’s 1967 Centennial symbol taken with his Christmas gift of a Kodak instamatic camera.
"Fast forwarding now through a career in aviation, raising a family and living on several continents, I have been able to refocus on photography and now call Quadra home. Having discovered birds together with my wife, Margrit, we often find most of our winged subjects right outside the window, not always in Canada. I seek to bring their ethereal beauty to the public’s eye and attention. Never far from my mind is their plight of vanishing habitat, pesticides, plastics, light pollution among others, predation by cats, collisions with manmade structures (deadliest being windows), and climate change."
