People often ask me, "who are you?". So I tell them. "I'm Roger R. Johnson, the worlds first self proclaimed welcome sign photography expert. I was born in Minnesota in 1970. I wasn't alone however, 7 minutes after my arrival the doctor exclaimed "OOPS, here comes another one". I was joined by an identical twin brother. He was called Boy Johnson #2, but was later renamed Rodney.

In the fall of 1989 on a trip to the Grand Canyon, we stopped and took a photo in front of the welcome to Iowa sign starting off my collection of all 50 States. By the end of 1991 I had all of the lower 48 states. The following year I drove to Alaska and obtained my second to last photo. The trip and the collection inspired my brother Rodney and I to produce our first film "Welcome to Alaska".

Four years and most of a college education later Rodney and I finally finished the collection when we flew to Hawaii and made the local news on KHON-TV in Honolulu. ( 19mb quicktime video clip) I've also tried to get on several other shows. I have been rejected by "the Tonight Show" "Late Night" and "the Late Show" (I was in the Late Show audience in Sept. 2003). I did get on a show called "Internet Tonight" however and have been in articles in Money magazine, Woman's World Magazine, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Concord Monitor, The Denver Post, The Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Sun-Times.