Brad Smith is a Vancouver and Toronto based photographer specializing in Canadian Landscapes, Architecture, Urban Scenics, and Impressionistic subjects. His interest in photography was first inspired by the early morning light and mists at sunrise in Algonguin Park and cottage country of Muskoka, in Ontario.
After taking Grand Prize in an Algonguin Park Photo Contest, he was encouraged to study composition and visual design with Canadian masters Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant at their workshop in New Brunswick.  
Following these studies he began seeing the symmetry, angular shapes and reflections that dominate our urban environments.  He realized that there are photographs to be made wherever you go, not just in natural places, an interest in architecture and urban subjects began.
 
Of special interest to Brad is the creation of photo montages or slide sandwiches, also know as Orton technique. It is the process of combining several pieces of film in a single slide mount to create painterly images of a surreal nature. Often three and sometimes four slides are combined – one in focus, and the others very blurred and soft to create the artistic effect. The effect of stacking layers of film creates a depth to the images and a saturation of colours not easily produced in a digital workspace.
Brad has recently begun shooting digital images as well as film, and is experimenting with different techniques of digital editing.
These slide montages and other painterly effects can be viewed in the Photo Impressionism and Fine Art galleries, among others. 
 
For the past five years Brad has been traveling extensively through British Columbia, photographing wherever and whenever he can.

“We respond to a photograph - a glimpse, perhaps, of the eternal in the now - and consider it beautiful when it reveals to ourselves the balance and symmetry, the perfection and simplicity of design in our own essence.  It is the photographer’s innate compelling to record the image in this light, for the sharing….. “