Wednesday, January 12, 2011

An afternoon with SF Photo Legend Pat Johnson

I recently had an opportunity to do a photo shot with Notable Bay Area Photographer Pat Johnson, I approached him just based on a couple of photos I saw on the Gibson Guitars SF facebook page. I had no idea he had photographed nearly every music legend you can name and other stars of sports, stage and screen.
Pat is really a remarkable person, professionally he was very understanding and creative regarding getting my "sound" across in the shoot. Aside from that though he is deep down a very warm-hearted human being with an all-consuming love for music. I would highly recommend him for any photo project and suggest allowing extra time and patience to absorb some of his colorful life stories. We can all learn a lot from people like Pat in all walks of life. He even turned me on to some amazing music I had never heard before. For instance, if you like Zeppelin and/or Jeff Buckley, check out Terry Reid. Terry actually turned down Led Zep back in the day, his 70's album "superlungs" is jaw-droppingly awesome.
peace, love and guitars,
kevin