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  • People carrying flags and banners down a street.
    7 Adults hold a gas hose with the man in the center cutting the hose.
    WWII fighter planes buzz the runway at the Marina Airport.
    Graduates with messages written on their square caps.
    3 couples kiss around a red convertible sports car in front of a vineyard.
    A falcon with wings spread lands on a falconer’s hand before a crowd.
    Woman pours wine for eager tasters in Valentines costumes.
    7 experts in communications debate the early influence of the internet on education on a TV stage.
    College president slaps hands with a MPC graduate on stage.
    College president shakes hands with a MPC graduate on stage and gives him his diploma.
    College president shakes hands with a MPC graduate on stage and gives him his diploma.
  • A wall of graduates in black gowns and hats, and 1 with headphones rocking out to music.
    Ambassador Joe Wilson speaks at Cal State Monterey Bay.
    Volunteers hold up the ice plant they’ve torn up.
    Swooshes of colorful festive Korean dancers in motion.
    Girls holding sings and banners march in a parade.
    Border collie runs around sheep.
    A CSUMB soccer player dribbles by his opponents.
    Dozens of people looking up at the camera and waving.
    Residence Hall Advisors (RAs) offering calm patient assistance.
    Judge receiving a standing ovation after receiving an award.
    2 guys in suits laughing.
    State Senator
  • Group of lawyers posing for a photo in Monterey.
    Lawyer speaking at a podium.
    2 guys in suits laughing.
    A semicircle of students arc around the center of the grassy quad with dorms in the background.
    3 women volleyball players return the ball.
    Dozens of university faculty and staff pose on the steps of the conference center.
    Huskies wearing sunglasses.
    Painters with canvases and easels are spread out on a hillside with a red mountain behind them.
    Woman on stage singing.
    3 dramatically lit photos of a guitar player on stage.
    Professionals playfully posing for a group photo at a convention.
    Company staff compete to develop a new product at a company conference.
  • Man pours a glass of wine for another man at a wine festival.
    A happy couple enjoy a romantic afternoon in wine country.
    A couple drinks wine in a bare winter vineyard.
    Woman pours wine for man across bar.
    3 people sip wine on a patio with mountains in the background.
    Wine festival under trees.
  • A couple strike a zany pose for a fun portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
    A couple strike a zany pose for a fun portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
    A couple strike a zany pose for a fun portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
    Apple staff posing for a portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
    Apple staff posing for a group portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
    Apple staff posing for a portrait in an aquarium exhibit.
  • BBQ chef carves up ribs.
    Out of focus man hold his logo wine glass up to the camera.
    3 women smile and pose with wine glasses.
    Wine festival with red and pink decorations in a vineyard.
    Wine lovers line up for pours of Rarilyn Remark red wine.
    Man pours wine for festival goers.
    4 couples pose outside the Marilyn Remark winery.
    Wrath’s winemaker poses with her bottles.
    Enthusiastic winery staff party.
    Volunteer of the Year Award recipient poses with his award in from of SLH vineyards.
    Chef Todd goofing off in front of a rustic window stage prop.
    2 Chefs display a roast pig with a wall of wine barrels in the background.
  • SLH Pinot Noir in a Santa Lucia Highlands Wine Artisans logo wine glass with an out-of-focus vineyard and blue sky in the background.
    SLH Pinot Noir being aerated as it pours into a Santa Lucia Highlands Wine Artisans logo wine glass.
    A winemaker poses with her bottles.

Event Photography

Steve Zmak covers events by combining a documentary approach with a conceptual advertising style. He doesn’t just document events, he illustrates the energy and spirit of the events. Zmak’s open and friendly personality invites attendees to let their enthusiasm explode before his lens, and his stealthiness allows him to blend in and not interfere with the flow of activities. He gets in close, inside the inner circle so you feel like you were there.

Swooshes of colorful festive Korean dancers in motion.

The City of Marina’s annual Labor Day Parade down Reservation Road—the biggest in the county. Lens Painting allows me to capture and illustrate the energy of an event in a more abstract approach to documenting it.

 

College president slaps hands with a MPC graduate on stage.

Monterey Peninsula College President Dr. Walter Tribley low 5s a graduate before handing him his diploma. I took more than 800 photos of nearly 400 graduates receiving their diplomas in about 1 hour—very faced paced event coverage.

 

3 couples kiss around a red convertible sports car in front of a vineyard.

Monterey County wine lovers celebrate Valentines Day at Talbott Vineyards along the River Road Wine Trail through the heart of Steinbeck Country.