David Pond-Smith

David Pond-Smith was born in Chicago and was reared by his grandparents in Port Arthur, a small refinery town in southeast Texas. He went to high school with Janis Joplin, drove a fast car and earned a bad reputation with the parents of all the girls that he dated. His grandfather told him to get a shovel and go to work at the bottom of the heap at Texaco, or get a college degree. Pond-Smith got a BS and burned the shovel. He had written photographer, Ansel Adams, and asked him to teach him the language of light. Ansel wrote a postcard back and said that he didn't know if he could do that but if he was ever in Carmel to come see him. pond-smith immediately drove to Carmel. At 8 AM in the morning, he knocked on Ansel's door in the Carmel Highlands and showed Ansel's wife, Virginia, the postcard. She said, "Have you had breakfast yet?" and invited him in. Pond-Smith studied with Ansel and taught Zone System, Creative Experience and Yosemite Workshops with him. He started the photo/film departments at The Texas Center for Photographic Studies and The University of Texas at Dallas. He also taught at Cal State LA and UCLA, and did a photo book that was well received by The New York Times. Pond-Smith met a gorgeous woman named, Stephanie Aranas, and was swept away by her into a new life. They married and soon worked at Paramount Studios with some top people in the film industry, including the legendary Robert Evans. Pond-Smith put in countless hours on a seven-days-a-week schedule, writing sales kits, product copy, production notes and doctoring numerous scripts and screenplays. An opportunity emerged to work with a talented group at a start up called, Carolco Pictures. Pond-Smith took his chances and doubled his efforts on such box office hits as RAMBO, BASIC INSTINCT, CLIFFHANGER, STARGATE, TOTAL RECALL and the TERMINATOR series. He earned a film credit on LOLITA with Adrian Lyon and Jeremy Irons. Worked with Toronto-based PR executive Susanne Krajinovic on the film JASON X for New Line Cinema. For the past thirty years, writing has always been his passion. After his wife died. he drifted around on the dark side and finally wrote his first novel in 2009, a sci-fi thriller about a gambler who could handle anything except... temptation. OTHER WORLDS is his latest eBook for Amazon Kindle. David Pond-Smith lives in Las Vegas with a blonde showgirl. Pond-Smith is also the Commodore of the Las Vegas Yacht Club. He can be contacted at: http://www.otherworldsmovie.com