The World As I See It...

...Has Changed.

I started taking photographs to record the reality around me as a photojournalist. It was in the analog days of film, chemicals and darkrooms. It was not easy to manipulate a photograph. So, for many people, photography recorded life.

Then the digital age transformed photography. We could create images that were easy to change. Digital photography no longer guaranteed that the image you saw on your screen was the same as you saw with your eyes. With it I changed too. I became interested in using my camera to explore light and color in landscapes and flowers.

But then the pandemic came and life changed again. We were locked down. I was limited to where I could go. So, my camera focused out my back window. My subject matter became the birds that were free to fly and visit my feeders.

As we gradually open up, bird photography has become a passion. So, I switched my main Instagram account to @kerbybirds. I still take other photographs that intrigue my eye and for that I have @kerbyseye.

You will also find pages on this website dedicated to those images as well as my art quilts. Stitching photographs on fabric allows me to interact with the printed surface in a way I could not do before. It adds a dimension of tactility to the traditional two-dimensional photographic image. It is a starting point to explore an imaginative reality that I find intriguing.

If you enjoy my imagery, I invite you to visit my webstore. Your purchase of my bird and other photos allows me to continue to provide you with new imagery on my Instagram pages.

Thank you,

Kerby Smith