Meet John Smith

“My interest in photography,” explains JOHN SMITH, “began when I was fourteen trying to take pictures of the moon by placing a camera over my home built telescope. After high school, a part time photography career turned into a full-time career with the General Electric Company for twelve years. Since leaving GE, I have been running my own photo labs. For over thirty years, I have been involved in either taking or printing images.”

As a native of these mountains, John’s love of the mountains led him to begin taking landscape pictures in both black and white and color. Then, in 1999 armed with a 4x5 camera, John began photographing the mountains with a broader perspective. His goal was to capture the beauty and majesty of the Western North Carolina mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains on a printed piece of paper. To his view camera in 2004, he added 8x10 capabilities in order to do big enlargements in both black and white and color with a high level of detail and sharpness. “I want to be able to share my images,” says John, “for all to understand what it is like to live in such splendor -- the kind of splendor as displayed by the four distinctive seasons we enjoy here in the Blue Ridge.”

John Smith is proudly represented by WICKWIRE fine art/folk art in Hendersonville, North Carolina.