Featured in the November/December 2007 issue of View Camera magazine :
The Art of Canadian Landscape
Text & Photos by Ron Smid
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News
[2007-08-03]
Ron Smid's solo exhibition at The Summit Gallery of Fine Art in Banff, Alberta opened on August 4th and will be on display until the 25th. Visit the gallery to view the ten large 30" x 40" photographs immaculately hand-produced by master Cibachrome printer, Michael Wilder
"Ron Smid’s large format Illfochrome photographs depict the power, beauty and ephemeral state of nature. With a profound passion and commitment to capture Canada’s spectacular and vast natural environments, Smid has traversed the country on two separate bicoastal sojourns. Rejecting the digital camera and it’s predisposition of the great shot through process of elimination, Smid prefers the artistry of pursuing and capturing the single perfect photograph; when the elements perfectly align in the right place, and at the right time. It is on these journeys that Smid embraces the elements, typically camping out at a specific location for hours, or days at a time, awaiting natural light occurrences, outlasting transitory weather, combined with selected location and precision technical skill to present that which is a single decisive moment in photography."
Emily Barnett - Curator
The Summit Gallery of Fine Art
[2007-06-18]
Ron Smid standing next to his best selling limited edition photograph - Lake Louise, at Nanaimo`s Yellow Bird Arts Gallery.
The ethereal image is one of only 25 available cibachrome photographs for sale and was immaculately hand printed by legendary master colour printer - Michael Wilder. Over the course of three decades Wilder`s reputation for quality color printing has been legendary. Committed to producing only the finest traditional Ilfochrome prints humanly possible, Wilder`s work has attracted some of the world’s finest photographers including Ansel Adams and the Ansel Adams Trust who commissioned him to print a selection of his rare color images.
There are only 8 photographs of Lake Louise remaining in the edition.
