Lloyd Smith is an experienced photographer who has honed his skills over many decades taking photos around the world. Some of his most iconic photos include "Sky Fire Crater Lake" which has been published internationally. He discusses how photography allows one to capture a moment in time and provides a window into the photographer's soul. Smith also talks about organizing his vast collection of over 1.4 million photos on Google Picasa so they can be preserved and shared with others.

1. The Art (Power) of Photography
by Lloyd Smith

2. A little snow at the cabin – Christmas Eve

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

4. Lloyd Smith in Patagonia - Argentina

5. Lloyd in Nepal – December 2014

6. 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.

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

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

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

11. The evolution continues – Nikons - Pentax 67 – Nikon D200

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

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

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

16. It does not matter
where you are when
you take photos; it
matters what you see
while you are there.

17. 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.

18. 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…

19. 40 years and the role is reversed-great grandson

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

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

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

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

24. 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

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

26. The Power of Photography

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

28. Bangladesh – Bathing & washing teeth with fingers in filthy water

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

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

31. A doll in a fish aquarium. Swamp bride

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

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

34. 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.

35. 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.

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

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

38. A visit to Pilanesberg National Park – South Africa

39. Parque National Torres Del Paine - Hosteria
Pehoe - Patagonia

40. Austral Pygmy-owl Parque National Torres Del Paine

41. Mwanza, Tanzania

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

43. 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

44. 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

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

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

47. 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.

48. 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

49. 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.

50. 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.

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

52. A couple more shots from the Patriot Guard Riders

53. Some samples of how I use photography
1-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.

54. 1- The Kaitlyn Smith project 1997-2015

55. Kaitlyn Smith with her dad, Keith Smith 1997

56. Kaitlyn growing up

57. Kaitlyn even modeled for me in Cabo

58. Kaitlyn Smith holding her cousin Reuben Tanner

59. Kaitlyn is growing up!

60. 17 years later…

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

62. 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

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

64. 1963 – Graduation photo
1963 – I started taking her photo,
been shooting Helen for 53 years

65. She has been an active girl

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

67. 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

68. 3-The Museum Project
Old photos with an object still owned in the photo
1951 – Dad sitting on his milking stool. I still have the stool.

69. 1935 – Helen’s mother in her prom , graduation and wedding dress.

70. 1959 – Lloyd sitting at his desk; note the chair and slide rule, age 19

71. 2015 – Lloyd’s grandson Bennett Smith, age 15, sitting at the same
desk with the same slide rule.

72. 2015 – The desk, the chair and the slide rule in the display

73. Helen in 1952 holding the Bible, ready for church.

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

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

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

78. Haiti – one month after the earthquake

79. Haiti

80. Haiti

81. Nepal

82. Mount Rainier National Park

83. Crater Lake National Park – 1970s – carry camera

84. Crater Lake National Park in black and white

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

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

87. Try throwing a dart through a hanging water balloon

88. Or bounce a ball on a plate of milk

90. Or bounce a steel ball bearing off a plate of milk

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

92. In the Mountains of Nepal

93. Arriving for church in Haiti

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

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

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

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

99. Lots of great faces at a car show

100. Ambergris Caye Belize – wandering at night with a camera

101. Nepal

102. Wander the homeless camps of Kelso

104. 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.

106. Belly button photography – lay on yours

107. The photo taken while practicing belly button photography

108. One more photo of Mount Rainier

109. Shooting in Nepal – you have to make it happen

110. What I was shooting on my belly

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

112. Russian Children

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

114. A few more on Ben.

115. 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

117. Lloyd Smith in Haiti one month after earthquake

118. Cabo, Mexico – need to finish with a sunset 