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  • Cannabis lit up at night by the streaking headlamps of the farmers.
    Surreal fantasy character inside a cannabis bud.
    Cannabis flower exhaling a cloud of green smoke.
    Cannabis plant positioned at the base of the Milky Way.
    Backlit silhouette of a farmer in a vineyard at night that looks like the Scheid Vineyards logo.
    Wine bottle surrounded by hundreds of squiggles of colored lights.
    Shadowy figures armed with lightsabers facing off on coastal rocks.
    Photo of a sailboat inside a wine glass at sunset.
    Streaks of red, green and white light softly illuminate a vineyard at night.
    Musician playing guitar in meadow on a stool with a lamp.
    Guitar player music to a big oak tree.
    Musician playing guitar in meadow.
  • Friends having a crab feast at the beach at sunset.
    Customers in a tasting room enjoying wine.
    Post No Bills logo pint glass full of amber ale on a bar surrounded by spilt beer, fresh hops, and barley grains.
    Surfer inside a wine glass riding a wave of sparkling wine as it swishes around the glass.
    A collection of wine glasses with a crazy amount of light streaks behind them in black & white.
    Inter-dimensional door leading into a vortex of stars.
    Women’s basketball team group photo with otter logo painted on the floor
    Otters basketball team getting crazy.
    Group of women basketball players acting silly.
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
  • A waterfall spills into a pond lit up from below the water at night.
    The Milky Way Galaxy above the Big Sur coastline with a waterfall spilling into a turquoise cove.
    Extreme close-up of cannabis flower with surreal character inside.
    Extreme close-up of cannabis flower with surreal character inside.
    Extreme close-up of cannabis flower.
    Bottles of wine and glasses of wine and roses by candlelight.
    Sci fi star wars warrior connecting with a glowing orb.
    Long exposure of car lights going around a roundabout with a library in the background.
    A single person walks alone on an expansive beach at sunset.
    Alien lights spinning around the natural Pinnacles landscape.
  • Ladybug on a young grape berry with the Scheid logo as one of its spots.
    Tiny seed with white sprout on a finger tip.
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy
    Product photo of a Scheid Rosé in their Carmel tasting room for marketing.
    Product photo of a Scheid Rosé in their Carmel tasting room for marketing.
    Environmental Portrait of a Professional
    Environmental Portrait of a Professional
  • Environmental Portrait of a Professional
    The Kauai island as seen from a boat on the ocean with bright-colored foliage and cloud-shrouded mountains.
    Multiple exposure of a surfer bathed in sunset light racing across a crashing wave.
    Ghostly figures standing atop a rock arch with misty ocean around them.
    A waterfall spills into a pond lit up from below the water at night.
    Full moon passing over a surreal landscape at night dotted with rock pinnacles.
    Extreme close-up of cannabis flower with surreal character inside.
    Startrails form a vortex with spacecraft arcing across the sky towards it over a mountainous alpine valley.
    Time exposure photo of ribbons of car lights along a winding road.
    Monterey Porsche Dealership from the street lit up with a dramatic sunset in the background.
    Various Porsche models adown a showroom floor in a big wide angle photo with lots of lights.
  • MCWD Director jan Shriner poses with a glass of water with sand dunes, Monterey Bay and Monterey Peninsula in the background.
    Woman holding a beer in front of brew tanks.
    The Milky Way spans the night sky above vineyards with the distant lights from Highway 101.
    Long exposure of car lights trace the path of a highway through a vineyard landscape at dusk.
    Backlit silhouette of a farmer in a vineyard at night that looks like the Scheid Vineyards logo.
    Silhouette of a shipwreck on a Monterey Bay beach just past sunset.
    Brown cracked clay mask lying in a creek.
    2 Bicyclists with bright red taillights light up a bike lane at night.
    Cabins nestled in a forest along a river with kayakers paddling by.
    People hanging out windows with lights before dawn.
  • Santa having a cookie and glass of wine.
    Colorful out-of-focus lights surround a bottle of port and 2 glasses.
    Wine Bottle surrounded by spilt apples and cranberries with colorful background lights.
    Painterly looking photo of wine grapes with the effect of being sucked into a vineyard.
    People carrying flags and banners down a street.
    2 photos of 2 sisters, each photo has them with different expressions.
    Confident student campus tour guide sitting on a stool and holding a big round CSUMB logo.
    Editor of the student newspaper reading a newspaper with a stack of papers at her feet.
    Attractive female student holding up a CSU Monterey Bay logo with a wreath around it.
    Confident male student holding a round CSUMB logo.
    Attractive female student holding a CSU Monterey Bay Otters pennant.
    Male student sitting behind Cal State Monterey Bay logo.
  • Attractive female student laying on her side behind a CSUMB logo.
    Police helmets and bowling pins litter the grass outside an overgrown concrete warehouse.
    Chair facing the corner of concrete walls with light coming in from a window above and graffiti on he wall below it.
    An empty warehouse with an armchair and 2 windows arranged on the floor with light coming in from side windows a door in the back.
    Man with babies climbing all over him.
    2 women holding 3 babies.
    Young woman holding 3 babies.
    Little boy looking up at camera with wishful eyes.
    Happy little girl with notebooks and big eyes.
    Little girl sitting and looking up at camera with a subtle grin.
    Little girl looking up at camera with big grin.
    Little girl with notebook.
  • Grape vines with colorful lights in the night sky.
    Hikers in motion on a trail surrounded by blurry green brush passing on both sides.
    People wearing red and yellow arranged to form the In-N-Out Burger logo.
    Teaching welding in sculpture class.
    Part of a year-long project photographing the farmland of Scheid Family Wines for a 2020 calendar.
    Aerial drone photo of vineyards and fields along River Road winding south through the Salinas Valley by the light of a full moon with the city lights of Gonzales and Soledad in the distance.
    The Powell Street Trolley glides through the streets of San Francisco on a sunny autumn afternoon.
    An antique touring car from the 1920s speeds through Union Square with a painterly treatment.
  • Impressionist figures rushing down the sidewalk of a busy urban street scene at night with threads and squiggles of colored light.
    The Powell Street Trolley zooms down the hills of San Francisco overflowing with passengers with the night lights streaking past.
    Impressionist figures rushing down the sidewalk of a busy urban street scene at dusk with squiggles and threads of light from storefronts and traffic.
    Shadowy figures are engulfed in colorful light.
    Colorfully lit surf rushes up the beach at twilight with a colorful sky over Monterey and silhouetted sand dunes.
    Blue-colored man guzzling brown ale and coloring his mouth and throat brown.
    Bottle of Hahn Pinot Noir wine and glass of wine with artichokes, strawberries and blackberries on a barrel top with a vineyard in the background

Advertising & Conceptual

Steve Zmak is clever at using photography to illustrate ideas through light manipulation, arrangement of subjects, advance planning, long exposures, advanced shooting and post production techniques, compositing multiple images, and collaborating with other creative professionals such as models and other photographers. Zmak’s imagery often takes on a science fiction and fantasy theme.

Cannabis garden at night positioned below the Milky Way Galaxy

Cannabis garden at night under the stars and positioned beneath the Milky Way Galaxy.

 

Backlit silhouette of a farmer in a vineyard at night that looks like the Scheid Vineyards logo.

The silhouette of the farmer that makes up Scheid Vineyard’s iconic logo is illustrated in their San Lucas Vineyard on a warm summer night. You can compare it to their logo on their website: www.ScheidVineyards.com.