June 2011
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Q&A: Laura M
What inspired you to take this photo? I was driving around with a friend after attending a wedding out of town and we decided to do the scenic route. We got to a little town outside Toronto (I believe its called Couberg but can’t be sure). We were actually stopped at a red light and I was a passenger in the car. It has a sun roof. I loved the the architecture so I took a picture.
Why did...
May 2011
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Q&A: Pat Gaines
What inspired you to take this photo? We had a puppy shower for a friend at work to celebrate the arrival of her new pup, Finn. As a gift I offered to do a photoshoot for her.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? We had taken a few photos outside work, but the backgrounds were cluttered with cars, fences and buildings. So we decided to take Finn to a local high school with big open...
March 2011
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Q&A: Karen Strolia
What inspired you to take this photo? Every night my husband reads stories to the kids as they are slipping into sleep. This was taken about three months after we adopted our pooch from the humane society. Turns out, he liked story timetoo.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? The only light at that moment was the nightlight in the hallway. I opted to shoot in black and white, which...
February 2011
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Q&A: I Man Chio
What inspired you to take this photo? The photo was taken at my home. We had a new aquarium and so we bought some fish. The small world inside an aquarium is so amazing, dreamy and peaceful.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? It was a little bit difficult for me, to use my new cctv lens (35mm, f1.7) together with my new camera - nex3. Every thing was new. And I was not very...
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Q&A: Joaquin Alonso Arellano Ramirez
What inspired you to take this photo? My passion for nature photography, things so beautiful that offer our planet in all its forms and to transmit them to other people, at least part of them.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? Since I started taking photos in a formal way, no more than 2 years, I drew attention the styles of photos with beautiful bokeh, simple and clean but at the...
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Q&A: Andrew Evans
Thought this would be a good Q&A for Valentine’s Day. Everybody say “Awww”
What inspired you to take this photo? I was out one morning before the sunrise not knowing what to expect when i came across a small group of deer, I sat and waited for a little while to see if any interesting photo oppurtunities would develop. I saw how the fawn was interacting with the adult and I...
Not Just Flickr Anymore
We have been focusing solely on Flickr as a source for our Q&A’s. It would be a shame to skip over an amazing artist just because they weren’t in the Flickr group. So starting today, we are branching out. We will now be including images from Tumblr, Behance, Picasa, Facebook, Zenfolio, SmugMug, as well as all the countless other photo sharing websites.
If you have a specific image...
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Q&A: Gareth McGaughey
What inspired you to take this photo? I had wanted to expand my photostream with more ‘street’ photography having been inspired by many great streams on flickr including some great work by Rui Palha. I had been walking round on a cold December morning not really having much success in getting a good ‘capture’ when I popped into the local church. This woman was the only...
January 2011
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Q&A: Stuart Starr
What inspired you to take this photo? My love of the uniqueness of each new day, the movement of the waves and some lovely lines.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? I’m a huge fan of seeing what I can capture in camera as a starting place for creating beautiful images. With this in mind I’m a bit of a filter junky when it comes to balancing out the extremes of light in...
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Q&A: Luis José Vigil-Escalera
What inspired you to take this photo? A gray, misty afternoon, made me think about shapes and lines rather than colors, foam shapes drew in the sand, and rock brought the weight to give balance to the picture.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? Both the profile of the cliff, like foams and even clouds converged on the remote islands and the boat, that made me change my point of...
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Q&A: Laurie
What inspired you to take this photo? This image is of our dog Willow. She just looked so happy calm and contented which drew me in to take the photo. Last winter, she would perch herself on the same spot every time she went outside. When it snowed, she would stick her nose in the air, closer her eyes and take all her surroundings in and feel the snow fall on her face.
What were you feeling?...
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Q&A: Mihai Andritoiu
What inspired you to take this photo? I noticed several great very long exposure pictures on Flickr and I wanted to experiment the technique myself.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? The location is a famous resort in the Netherlands, not far from the place I used to live.
What were you feeling? What mood were you in? I was pretty relaxed and stress free. I can even dare to say I...
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Q&A: Johan Klovsjö
What inspired you to take this photo? First of all the magnificent frost we were having then. Second, the “just right” mist that enabled me to isolate the scenery without losing any of its clarity. Other than that, empty roads and scenes of nature are a wonderful inspiration to the mind.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? Road to Oblivion, the road to nothingness. At...
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
– Ansel Adams
December 2010
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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
– Edwin Land
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Q&A: LaRee Brownell
What inspired you to take this photo? I am captivated by a beautiful sunset with good color.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? I like to have at least a silhouette to add interest to the beautiful colors from a rich sunset. The fisherman on the pier fit the bill for this one.
What were you feeling? What mood were you in? I was happy and relaxed having just finished a nice dinner...
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Q&A: Csaba Tokolyi
What inspired you to take this photo? Probably the biggest commonplace in underwater photography are clown-fish. I wanted to show something different. With lighting and changing the proportions in which these subjects are depicted.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? I wanted to show the interdependence between the fish and the anemone. One can see thousands of clown-fish photos...
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Q&A: Anna Theodora
What inspired you to take this photo? Lately here in my city, I’ve been trying to break through as a photographer, mostly for fashion and lookbooks. The last agency I visited said that in my city there are no decent fashion/book photographers. So I set out to make things different, to put more of an effort in the props for my photoshoots. For this girl, I wanted some romantic and colorful...
New Facebook URL →
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Instead of: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zen-Imagery/40068918351
We now have: http://www.facebook.com/zenimagery
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Q&A: Daniela Garling - cinnamon girl ♡
What inspired you to take this photo? After a long and dark winter we slowly started seeing small greens appear in the woods, fighting their way through thick layers of dirty old leaves. Nature is pure beauty!
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? I wanted to focus on the new life arriving and the hope it resembled. so I tried to get low low low to omit the brownish leaves and...
November 2010
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Q&A: Brad Perkins
What inspired you to take this photo? I don’t know if I could really say that I was inspired to take this photo. I was taking a hike in Arizona and thought it was beautiful so I stopped to take the shot.
Why did you capture this photo the way you did? Well, I have always loved shallow depth of field to emphasize the subject so I wanted to achieve that with the anther(I believe...
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Q&A: Vanessa and Miss ViVi Gold
What inspired you to take this photo? Early that day, Miss ViVi Gold, who is the golden retriever, just met Miss Maddy, the Westie puppy. The two pups really loved each other from the moment they met. Miss ViVi is an adolescent pup, and Miss Maddy, was only 9-weeks old at the time. I asked Maddy’s mommy if I could photograph her puppy at my home. So Maddy came over to my house for a photo...
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
New Beginnings
For quite some time the website hasn’t budged - stagnate in one position. Thinking about ideas to do with it, finally came to the conclusion of promoting artists who are passionate about their craft. Throughout the weeks we will be posting interviews with various artists, and other things we find interesting.
If you would like to share something, photo, video, anything really, ...