Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the western landscape into suburbia.  The images are a bit surreal and a lot lonely.  The development in this part of the country seems far from natural.  This encroachment has been on my mind as I gear up for my annual trip out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  It seems as if each year I make the drive there are more and more developments cropping along the way.  Smith’s work shows that we are doing something wrong. . . its not that we shouldn’t live in these areas but we should live in them in a more intelligent way.  Beside the subject matter, Smith is a visual master.  His images a have a certain balance and completeness that is hard to ignore.  There is something to be said for craft at the highest level.