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Author: Cody Smith

Cody William Smith is a self-described adventurer, lover of nature, mountains, sunlight and putting himself into precarious situations. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he works professionally as a freelance photographer and cinematographer. His landscape-centric fine art series A Moment’s Reflection has been featured all across the web and in publications around the world. He received his BFA in Cinema from Columbia College in 2012 and has been working in the film industry ever since. You can follow Cody on his website, Tumblr, and Instagram.
Posted on November 11, 2014November 12, 2018

The Night Sky on Film: A Salute to the Photographic Process

For me, photography is a way to slow things down, to hold on to moments that I recognize as being otherwise impossible to possess.

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