Steve Zmak's Magic Kiss from the Cosmos was nominated for Advertising and Dolphin Love was nominated for Wildlife. These are Zmak's 11th and 12th nominations since 2014 with an Honorable Mention in 2019. View Zmak's award-winning photos. Steve Zmak takes aerial photos of natural and urban environments from, helicopters, planes and drones: land use and construction, architecture, agriculture, wilderness, and fine art.
View the aerial photography portfolio. Licensing a stock photo is faster and more affordable than a custom shoot. Steve Zmak offers stock photos from California, Alaska and Hawaii for websites, social media campaigns, print advertising, marketing materials, and office and home decor. Do you need a photo today of wine grapes, a Big Sur sunset, vineyard aerials, or a grizzly bear?
View the aerial photography portfolio. Licensing a stock photo is faster and more affordable than a custom shoot. Steve Zmak offers stock photos from California, Alaska and Hawaii for websites, social media campaigns, print advertising, marketing materials, and office and home decor. Do you need a photo today of wine grapes, a Big Sur sunset, vineyard aerials, or a grizzly bear?
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Steve Zmak captures the essence of California and the West through its agricultural beauty. His studio sits on the edge of strawberry and artichoke fields with the famous Santa Lucia Highlands AVA and Salinas Valley just down the road-Zmak's playground.
Zmak has documented a year of operations for Smith Family Wines and a year in the vineyard for Scheid Vineyards, taken aerials from Ray Franscioni's helicopter, taught vineyard photography workshops at Hahn Family Wines and Pessagno Winery, and published a book about the Santa Lucia Highlands.He has probably photographed you if you've been to the River Road Valentine's Passport or SLH Gala in the last few years.
Zmak has documented a year of operations for Smith Family Wines and a year in the vineyard for Scheid Vineyards, taken aerials from Ray Franscioni's helicopter, taught vineyard photography workshops at Hahn Family Wines and Pessagno Winery, and published a book about the Santa Lucia Highlands.He has probably photographed you if you've been to the River Road Valentine's Passport or SLH Gala in the last few years.
I was hired by California State University, Monterey Bay in 1996 at the close of its first academic year to be its first staff graphic designer. I immediately added staff photographer to my responsibilities, and grew into the art director role in University Advancement's Marketing & Publications Dept.
Photos can be located through categorized galleries and portfolios, or keyword search by title e.g. Vineyard Road), location (e.g. Santa Lucia Highlands or Monterey County), or year the photo was taken (e.g. 2009. Or you can just contact us, let us know what you're looking for, and we'll email you a proof sheet of images to select from.
His photography celebrates the culture, history, and lifestyle of California and the West, and illustrates his deep spiritual connection to the natural world and our place in it. I seek to capture an ideal of California and the West with humans living in harmony with the natural world rather than over-exploiting it.
Steve Zmak is FAA certified to operate a sUAS/drone aircraft commercially. He has 20 years of experience photographing a variety of natural or developed terrain from a variety of aircraft and altitudes including fixed wing, helicopter, and unmanned/drone.
He can portray the earth from the air very literally for urban planning and documentation, or more conceptually similar to portraiture, still life and landscape photography, or completely abstract with a painterly style.He has lectured on the subject of the artistry of drone photography at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
He can portray the earth from the air very literally for urban planning and documentation, or more conceptually similar to portraiture, still life and landscape photography, or completely abstract with a painterly style.He has lectured on the subject of the artistry of drone photography at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
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