Photographer Ian Macdonald-Smith has been described by the website imaginginfo.com as "a visionary with a cause".

A stock photographer for more than 22 years, the Bermudian shoots travel, landscape and architectural photographs, but is also renowned for his abstract expressionist water pictures.

Mr. Macdonald-Smith is also an environmental activist. In 2004 he launched the Global Archive Foundation, a digital Internet archive of photographic records to monitor change and help preserve the world's environment.

He is now featured at length on photography site imaginginfo.com. Mr. Macdonald-Smith tells the website: "My taste is for abstract or graphic fine art photography, so the way I see things is very different from other photographers".

The article states: "Macdonald-Smith is a visionary with a cause, impassioned by what he sees as the subtleties of reality, oftentimes overlooked by the less observant.

"'We are paid to observe,' he explains. 'The technical side is important because you have to capture what you see, but you have to have a vision in the first place. All photographers are, and must be, visionaries. Whether it's someone buying a book, someone buying a print, or someone who's commissioning you, you have to sell that vision'."

The article continues: "It's this vision that's smitten his clients and got the photo industry talking. With sponsorships from Olympus, Tamrac, and Nik Software, six books published, as well as three books due out in the next 18 months, Macdonald-Smith balances his stock photography with more personal projects."

It states that although Bermuda is his main market, particularly for architecture and tourism, Mr. Macdonald-Smith is an avid traveller, camping out in his Volkswagen van for several months at a time in Europe.

While on the move he relies on his own website to generate business, from prints, books, to selling to advertising agencies. He also sell photographs to companies to hang in their offices.

"Retirement is not in my vocabulary. I do what I do because I love doing it, and I want to do it until the day I die," says Mr. Macdonald-Smith.

"Photography is truly a creative frontier that still hasn't been mined."

For more on his work, go to www.imacsmith.com.