Tim Johnson created Living Images in 1994 by combining two loves: the Civil War and photography.

    Johnson, who has had a strong interest in the Civil War since childhood, became a reenactor in 1978. His photographs, using fellow reenactors to make the "ghost" images, are taken at actual sites and carefully researched so they are historically accurate.

    The 1976 graduate of Middletown High School in Middletown, Md., won first place in the Maryland High School State Film Festival for his slide-tape presentation on the Civil War. In 1979 he received an associate in arts degree in photography from Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W. Va.

    During the next ten years he worked as a photojournalist at newspapers in Maryland and West Virginia, winning 19 awards from the West Virginia Press Association, the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, and the Maryland State Teachers Association.

    He appeared as an extra in the movie "Gettysburg," and his photographs were featured in a "Ghosts of Gettysburg" segment on the television series "Sightings."

    Johnson's work allows him to pay tribute to those from both sides who gave their lives, and his photographs are an extension of his love for a precious piece of our nation's heritage.