As a small business owner, your attention is pulled in a multitude of directions. Finding material to market your latest product is a chore. Or is it? Simply looking for inspiration is all that is required. Keep your eyes open. Avoid burying your face in your phone. Smile. Ask a friend for help. The world is quite […]
Category Archives: Photography
Embrace Winter
Mother Nature is clearly off her meds. New Hampshire has experienced two significant snow storms in as many weeks with more scheduled in the forecast. Rather than sit around and mope, the opportunity was there to embrace the chill of winter and hike on a hibernating golf course. Golf course photography, in the summer months, […]
Phone Photography: Composition & Lighting
Let’s talk Instagram for a bit. You see something you’d like to take a picture of, and share with the world. You grab your phone, position it directly over your subject, and click the shutter button. Perhaps you’re feeling craaaazay and pick a filter to spice up the party. Your creation hits the Interwebs and is […]
Learn To Learn
In Tribe of Mentors, Adam Fisher penned an amazing piece of advice: Just learn how to learn. Then you can always figure out the next thing you will need to know. There are two schools of thought here. You can either be the jack of all trades / polymath type, or you can delegate. Delegation […]
Icing Without Cake
Last week Mother Nature decided to cover everything in a fine layer of ice. The day was overcast so lighting didn’t offer very good color. The contrast between the highlights in the ice and the darker areas of the subject, offered some great black & white picture opportunities.
My Favorite Paid Subscription Tools
Running Zimventures there are several tools which I used to manage and run the business. Below is a collection of the websites and tools which I use that are valuable enough to actually pay for. Some of the sites and tools offer a free version as an introductory tier, which is perfect for you to […]
Vaporized
Spent some time (trying) to capture water vapor coming out of a humidifier. This was an interesting shoot because the shutter speed on the Nikon D5200 isn’t exactly stellar. A lot of work was done in Lightroom to clean these up, but the results are neat. All of these were shot with the 50mm. My […]
2017 Year In Review
It’s been a busy 2017 here at Zimventures. On the business side, there were some new opportunities, completed projects, successes, and failures. On the personal side, it was another year of learning, experimenting, playing, new experiences, and so much more. Here’s a quick rundown of the crazy adventure otherwise known as 2017. 2017 Ventures Mr. […]
Winter Iceland – 2017 Edition
After some rainfall yesterday, the trees were left with a glass-like coat of ice for the most of the day. As the sun slipped lower in the sky, the ice caught the last sun rays of the day and made for some beautiful images. Nature’s Christmas Eve present was certainly one to remember this year.
Hard Lines
Walking into the office a few weeks ago I noticed an interesting intersection of lines and contrast. The camera hasn’t been making enough appearances outside of the backpack as of late – I’ll try to change that.