The Art (Power) of Photographyby Lloyd Smith

A little snow at the cabin – Christmas Eve

Sky Fire Crater Lake – Been printed around the world, even Reader’s Digest

Lloyd Smith in Patagonia - Argentina

Lloyd in Nepal – December 2014

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need

translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It

freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

It is also a window into the photographer's soul.

Working as a national park ranger gave me lots of photo opportunities to hone skills

Our first camera was a plastic “spy” camera that leaked light-1950

The evolution of my camera equipment – my 3nd camera – Argus Anastigmat - 1948

The evolution continues – Nikons - Pentax 67 – Nikon D200

The evolution continues – Nikons - Pentax 67 – Rolleiflex 2.8 - Nikon D200

Part of the “museum” – cameras go back to 1890

No Photoshop, WB 3200, 30 seconds, one headlamp, two flashlights

It does not matter where you are when you take photos; it

matters what you see while you are there.

One of my favorite photos 1971...My father always worked hard all of his life and his hands were always banged up. We had just brought home 2-day old Keith and he reached up and grabbed his grandfather’s banged up thumb. Such a contrast. Shot with a Miranda camera.

Grandpa Elmer was there when Keith grasped his thumb at 2-days old. Keith was there 40 years later as his 97 year old grandfather was passing…

40 years and the role is reversed-great grandson

The doctor just told us that Mom has three weeks to live. After 72 years of marriage…

They have been together for 75 year, “Is this how it is going to end?” asked Mom, 91.

Dad never left Mom’s side for three weeks. I photographed them for three weeks.

The emotion felt when you see your dad peer into his wife’s casket w/grandson.

I do not own or use Photoshop to manipulate photos. I try to the let the composition and subject stand on their own for impact. Photo: Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Ron, age 57, 20 felonies, 30 years in prison, Vietnam marine vet, heroin addict, COPD, mental.Kelso, Washington

The Power of Photography

Bangladesh – is he alive? Is he dead? Could not tell.

Bangladesh – Bathing & washing teeth with fingers in filthy water

How to beg for $$ on the street, weeping stump and a little girl

The power of street begging – a weeping stump – Streets of Pokhara

A doll in a fish aquarium. Swamp bride

An orphan boy in Nairobi, Kenya. Feeding kids in South Africa.

Drop back to 1948 – poor ragged kids - my wife, Helen Boorman with brothers

The year is 2000, my grandson Bennett with his grandfather in front of his 1954 Chevy truck…the power to close a 15 year gap.

The year is 2015, my grandson with his grandfather in front of his 1954 Chevy truck…the power to close a 15 year gap…the gap is closed.

I walked into a church in Soweto, South Africa and saw this darling little girl.

I loved the lighting – A church in Soweto, South Africa. Rotary Magazine published it on their Website.

A visit to Pilanesberg National Park – South Africa

Parque National Torres Del Paine - Hosteria Pehoe - Patagonia

Austral Pygmy-owl Parque National Torres Del Paine

Mwanza, Tanzania

Sheepherder – Parque National Los Alerces – Esquel – Bariloche - Patagonia

I am into preservation and then sharing around the world“I am leaving an electronic legacy for the world”

I use Picasa: www.picasaweb.google.com/lsmithtwin (2330 albums, 1.4 million photos)

Scanned over 40,000 slides, many negs One of my first slide shots 1964-Helen

I have a collection of over 2,000 glass negatives from the 1890s. These have all been scanned and the world can enjoy them on Picasa. 4x5 up to 11x14

A print off an 8x10 glass negative…so different from today.

Printed off a glass negative taken in 1928 – rather odd to be using glass in 1928

When my mother-in-law, Ruth Reed Boorman died we found boxes of slides, negatives, documents and photos from 1890 on. I now have 10,000 scanned images

from her collection for the family. They are all preserved and shared.

Most of my electronic world is found on 4 Websites

1-https://www.rasmussen1889.info

2-https://www.smith-family.info

3-www.lloydslens.info

4-www.picasaweb.google/lsmithtwin

Get Organized!I encourage you to organize your

photos so you can find them. Get a system. Put them into

folders. This is the system I use for almost 2,000,000 photos. My computer has been upgraded to 16 terabytes, filled 4 terabytes.

I have a Picasa app on my I-phone that allows me to access all of my 1.4 million photos in my 2300 albums. From the app I can show the photo, send the photo or send the album link by e-mail or text.

This is an interesting story of the use of the photo app.I walked into a funeral service last week and ……

A couple more shots from the Patriot Guard Riders

Some samples of how I use photography1-My son called me and asked if I had any photos of my 18 year old granddaughter, Kaitlyn Smith. In 3 hours I had 1200 photos, 18 years of her life. Probably a record for a grandpa. Had many more.

2-To honor my wife Helen Smith’s, 70th birthday I put together an album of 3,500 photos. It took me a year of sorting through 2,000,000 photos.

3-I have matched up objects in my folks’ photos to objects we still have today…The Museum Project.

1- The Kaitlyn Smith project 1997-2015

Kaitlyn Smith with her dad, Keith Smith 1997

Kaitlyn growing up

Kaitlyn even modeled for me in Cabo

Kaitlyn Smith holding her cousin Reuben Tanner

Kaitlyn is growing up!

17 years later…

The Helen Project 1945-2016Sorted through 2 million photos for 3,800 photos over 70 years

1945 – The first photo of Helen. When Helen’s mother died we found thousands of negatives in boxes in her apartment. They have all been scanned. 10,000 images

One of the houses that Helen was raised in. The snow blew through the cracks. She remembers the outhouse well.

1963 – Graduation photo 1963 – I started taking her photo, been shooting Helen for 53 years

She has been an active girl

Helen Mae Smith’s albums cover 70 years, 3800 photos, a world record for a husband

The Helen Project

Album 1: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up I (1945-1984)https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpI19451984

Album 2: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow up II (1985-2008)https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpII19852008

Album 3: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up III (2008-2015)https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpIII2008Present

Album 4: Helen Mae Boorman Smith – Watching Helen Grow up IV (2015-Present)https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpIV2015Present

3-The Museum ProjectOld photos with an object still owned in the photo

1951 – Dad sitting on his milking stool. I still have the stool.

1935 – Helen’s mother in her prom , graduation and wedding dress.

1959 – Lloyd sitting at his desk; note the chair and slide rule, age 19

2015 – Lloyd’s grandson Bennett Smith, age 15, sitting at the same desk with the same slide rule.

2015 – The desk, the chair and the slide rule in the display

Helen in 1952 holding the Bible, ready for church.

Always have your camera with you, shot at Crater Lake while on ranger patrol.1970s

What was I shooting in the 70s and 80s?

Haiti 2010 I photographed this girl Haiti 2012, I ran into same girl in the camp

Haiti – one month after the earthquake

Haiti

Haiti

Nepal

Mount Rainier National Park

Crater Lake National Park – 1970s – carry camera

Crater Lake National Park in black and white

It is called being bored at work and photographing breaking light bulbs – pellet gun

Never know what you are going to get when you shoot a light bulb

Try throwing a dart through a hanging water balloon

Or bounce a ball on a plate of milk

Or bounce a steel ball bearing off a plate of milk

Walking around Longview during Go 4th - you have to shoot

In the Mountains of Nepal

Arriving for church in Haiti

I did set the shot up, asked a powder lady to hit the lady on the bum with powdered hand

It is called being bored in a motel room in South Africa

Oregon International Air Show – I waited until the pilot crossed the moon

I shoot a lot of car shows. They are a good place to hone your photo skills.

Lots of great faces at a car show

Ambergris Caye Belize – wandering at night with a camera

Nepal

Wander the homeless camps of Kelso

Midnight Mount Rainier National Park. Had 4 miles to hike out in the dark after the shoot. Total: Walked 15 miles, up 24 hours, climbed 240 stairs. Nothing happens sleeping.

Belly button photography – lay on yours

The photo taken while practicing belly button photography

One more photo of Mount Rainier

Shooting in Nepal – you have to make it happen

What I was shooting on my belly

Always carry your camera. Step up, you cannot hold back. Just back from Russia.

Russian Children

I was walking through a restaurant last week and saw Ben…I saw a story…I stepped up

A few more on Ben.

I have seen many PowerPoint presentations and nobody has ever offered the link to review the program. I have posted on SlideShare and have the app on my phone.

http://www.slideshare.net/Lsmithtwin/art-of-photography-2c

Lloyd Smith in Haiti one month after earthquake

Cabo, Mexico – need to finish with a sunset