About Brenda

With formal post-secondary education in music, music therapy, fine art and design, it’s impossible not to have emotion, feelings and energy come into everything that I do. Music and art are life.

I see my life as a creative arts smorgasbord.

In photography and fine art we have composition, light, line, form, texture, rhythm, shape, space, color, value, harmony, balance and repetition.

Music has many of those same inherent qualities, but we add in melody along with silence and sound working hand in hand.

As a photographer, I think about and intuitively feel all of this while outdoors with camera in hand.

At this time, I have set my paintbrushes aside while devoting my time to photography.

However, as an abstract painter, I do not feel I have ever left painting; my camera is my paintbrush, the lens is my voice; life and the world around me is a canvas on which to play.

—Brenda Johima

 

Oh, and where else can you find me? Right here at JOHIMA(photography portfolio) and phoDOGraphy (dog photography and puppy photos)

I believe that you have been given dreams, visions, gifts and talents,
because you have been chosen
as one who can put them into action.
The point is not whether you succeed or fail,
as others define it.
The point is that you DO IT,
because you want to,
and you have a dream that needs to live.