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Show B1 Life Is Castle Valley Review, February 2009 Swell Spring Show Fundraiser for CEU Cosmetology set for Feb. 6-7 Emery and Carbon Counties, Utah u Living in the San Rafael Swell Area u Photo by James L. Davis Kimball Johnson focuses in on his subject. A CEU instructor by day, the self-proclaimed photography addict spends his time off taking photographs of just about everything. Picture Stories Kimball Johnson has turned his boyhood love of photography into a part time job and a full time obsession James L. Davis I name of his website where he posts most of the photographs he takes. Quite often they will mug for the camera and he will take a photograph or two good naturedly. But they aren’t the photographs he’s really after. The photographs he seeks out most often are the photographs where the subject isn’t aware that he has them in his viewfinder. “I like to shoot people with a long lens when they can’t see me,” the tall, whitehaired, father of six said. “I like to get them when they’re being natural because you can pick up people’s personality.” When talking about his photographs and his cameras the retired Army major is enthusiastic about a hobby that has become a part-time job and remains a passion in his life. He will jump from one subject to another, one shoot to another, one moment Photo by Kimball Johnson in time to another that he f a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then Kimball Johnson speaks volumes with his camera. While he may appear naturally soft spoken, his photographs sing the stories of his subjects and for years his subjects have been the people of Castle Valley. Johnson can be found just about anywhere there is a large gathering of people in Carbon and Emery counties, especially if it happens to be a College of Eastern Utah or high school sporting event. In fact, he has become such a staple at sporting events that when he walks in the door he can count on students calling out to him, Kimball says that he loves to take pictures of “critters” and the not necessarily by his given photograph above is one of his favorites. name but by “Caveart,” the Continued on Next Page. |