Karen Johnson - A Photographic Life

“Where Am I”. ©2026 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “Where Am I” ©2026 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved I decided to do a quick digital art piece from this great little character that I created in Midjourney. Background landscape is one of my photographs brought into Midjourney. I needed to work on a smaller piece that I could turn around within a week or two versus months with my Nursery…

“The Queen of Hearts” @2026 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved Another Nursery Rhyme crime! Series 5 finds our illustrious investigative reporter and amateur sleuth, Phoebe Kipp Rhymes, solving the disappearance of the Queen of Heart’s Tarts. Images generated in Midjourney, Openart.ai, and Photoshop. Some of the AI images are generated using my photographic images. I use KlingAI and Openart.ai…

“The Muffin Man Is Going Down” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved Series 5 of the Phoebe Rhymes Nursery Rhyme Cases. “The Muffin Man Is Going Down” . Incorporting my photography with Midjourney, OpenArt.AI, KlingAi, Google Nano Banna, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and ElevenLabs. Stay to the end so you can sing along with the hit tune, “The Muffin Man is Going Down”. Captions are provided so…

“Love on the Run?” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved Series 3 of Phoebe Rhymes Cases. This one is based on “Hey Diddle Diddle”. Please check out the accompanying video below. The digital art is created using images I created in Midjourney along with my photographs. Images are composited in Photoshop, Video is created in Runway and Klingai and then finished in Final Cut Pro. Music is…

“Burn Baby Burn” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved New Phoebe Rhymes Series 2: “Burn Baby Burn”. This time Phoebe is on the lookout for serial arsonist Jack B. Nimble and his candlestick. I created the image using. my own images, midjourney and photoshop. The video, piano music, the poem, and the voice over with a voice modulator are all mine. The fire engine sound was a freebie on the…

“A Push From The Wall” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “A Push From The Wall” a Phoebe Rhymes Nursery Rhymes Case. Meet my new character Ms. Phoebe Kipp Rhymes. Crime Reporter for the “Mother Goose News” and Amateur Sleuth. First case: “A Push From The Wall”. Mr. Stanley Humpty Dumpty was discovered on the night of October 29th cracked and oozing on the ground. No one seems to know who…

“Mystery in the Portrait Gallery” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “Mystery in the Portrait Gallery” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “Mystery in the Portrait Gallery” is Series 3 of the Grey Hair Detective Agency. I will be creating on or 2 more in this series and will be introducing a different series in the near future. Stay tune!

“The Clue of the Green Door” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “The Clue of the Green Door” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved “The Clue of the Green Door” is series 2 of the Grey Matter Detective Agency. Digital art is a combination of my photography and Midjourney AI.

“The Haunting of Hollow Hill” – A Grey Matter Detective Agency Case ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved My new series “The Grey Matter Detective Agency”. Being a lover of Nancy Drew as a kid I wanted an intelligent older woman doing the detecting. This is the first one. “The Haunting of Hollow Hill”. I also created a 4 second video in Kling AI to go with it. A combination of my own…

“Circus Bizarre” ©2025 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved This one took me a little bit longer than usual to create. Lot of little elements that I kept changing. For me, it is like playing with Colorforms. Bringing together elements from my photography, Midjourney, Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access and combining them with some magic in Photoshop.

2024 Holiday Card ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved

“The Black Queen Sacrifice” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved A combination of Midjourneyand my photography melded together in Photoshop. I went through a lot of different scenarios to get to this one!

“Passage Cache´” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved A combination of my photography as well as elements from Ai. I like the rennaissance feel of the woman and used one of my photographs from the abandoned mansion as a starting point in developing the background.

“Exploring an Abandoned Mansion: A Seat in Time” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved One of the hallways in the mansion I explored in August. I loved the shadow and light at play here.

“The Elegance” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved I love this staircase. The elegance of the architecture playing with the light and shadows caught my eye.

“Time Passages” @2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved I finally upgraded my wordpress account so I can post my video composites. This piece is one of a few composites I have added animation to. I start my composites with my own photography. The room was photographed in an abandoned mansion and the train was photographed in Cass, West Virginia. I took the photographs and put them in Midjourney…

“Lady of the Lake” ©2024 Karen Johnson All Rights Reserved Combination of my own photography with parts of images I created in Midjourney and paintings from the Metropolitan Museum’s Open Access. “Lady of the Lake” Wading through the waterHalf woman half a dreamRipples whisper secretsWhere the sunlight gleams Scales that shimmer brightlyIn the sunlight’s tender glowHer eyes are deep with…