Success Stories

Why don´t you show us your best Landscape Images?

jara — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:57:08 GMT

Here are two of mine to start with from the High Coast, Sweden:

http://jara.zenfolio.com/sweden/high_coast/h111b1df2#h111b1df2

http://jara.zenfolio.com/sweden/high_coast/h20c0db1c#h20c0db1c

Cheers

Janos

http://jara.zenfolio.com/

Sky and clouds - post your favourite (best) images.

click — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:35:33 GMT

These are my favourite pictures:

http://jacekfortunaphotography.zenfolio.com/p512965522/h330de791#h330de791

http://jacekfortunaphotography.zenfolio.com/p512965522/h16fc4649#h16fc4649

http://jacekfortunaphotography.zenfolio.com/p683059464/h198b312d#h198b312d

Night shots

asawyer — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:55:57 GMT

Just to stir the pot and get some more conversations going, anybody got any good night shots or tips on shooting at night. I know as usual there is a great variety out there, and I can't wait to see what others are doing. Here are a few of my favorites:

http://asawyer.zenfolio.com/europe/h28dce1f6#h28dce1f6

http://asawyer.zenfolio.com/europe/h28dce1f6#ha4af2f7

While I'm at it, I'll toss in a link to some really interesting work involving special tripod mounts and shooting through telescope lenses done by Tony Rowell (Galen Rowell's son):

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/locations/north-america/the-art-of-astrophotography.html

Anyone else busy with senior portraits?

Shoreside — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:16:50 GMT

Show 'em off!

Pick the favorite of someone else...

Shoreside — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:10:42 GMT

Here's a little twist on pick your favorite.

You have to pick the favorite photo of the previous poster. (Since mine is the first... I choose Kevin)

So...

Here is my favorite photo in Kevin's gallery:

http://www.thompsondigitalimage.com/landscapes/h25cbad1b#h25cbad1b

Now... someone else has to pick one of mine... and so on. (It's quite interesting to see which ones other people choose)

Share With Us Your Current Best Photo

John Guild — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:25:27 GMT

All, Share with the group what you believe is your best photo(s) based on whatever criteria you think are relevant ( your opinion, visits, sales, or whatever). Based on visits, here is mind (don't laugh, I'm still learning how to use the camera).

http://www.guildphotos.com/p998152170/h3ec5decd#h3ec5decd

http://www.guildphotos.com/p1046785163/h6d82cea#h6d82cea

Please, let’s see others. Post a link.

Flowers Only - Post Your Best

John Guild — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:30:15 GMT

I'll start. These are my there best:

From the 'Flowers: Surrender Deeply' series

From the 'Flowers: After Dark' series

From the Flower: In The Sun Series'

Come share with us your best

Thanks!!

New Photo Project : "Hallowed Be Thy Name"

timestop — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:12:49 GMT

A big hello to the entire ZF community !

It is said that understanding light as a whole is key to understanding what photography is all about.

So I thought "What better place to exercise my understanding of light than in various places of worship around town ?"

In each community, we all have places of actual light, and enlightenment (of the spiritual kind) so why not photograph some of them thanks to the Doors Open Waterloo Region initiative ?

And so, here's my latest photo project uniquely involved 11 places of worship around my region (Kitchener/Waterloo - Ontario, Canada) which I called:

"Hallowed Be Thy Name"

I welcome you all to have a visit at my gallery and witness the light in different wonderful settings.

Why is it a ZF success story ? I've already received offers to buy my photos from parishioners, local heritage societies, and dioceses. ZF is the key to the distribution of these photos via print or electronically.

Thanks ZF !

Pascal Sauvé

Promoting my work

vmurfin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:45:23 GMT

I am having a scrapbooking party this Saturday to promote my artwork. We will be working on scrapbook pages. I will also be telling my family and friends about my website. This is the time because it's Christmas shopping season. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you for your support.

Happy Camper

williamporter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:19:29 GMT

No, zenfolio has not (yet) made me a better photographer. And I've only been here for a week, so I can't say it's (yet) caused my business to increase.

But after doing the trial pretty diligently for a week and getting some important questions answered, I took the plunge early today and signed up for a premium account (and canceled my pro account at SmugMug, where I had been for years). So far I'm really enjoying zenfolio.

After just one week, and with very little help, I feel I understand what I'm doing in zenfolio better than I did at SmugMug after several years. The options here are rich but really well presented and in general I've been able to figure things out on my own. I love "edit view" where I can organize galleries, collections and groups. I love being able to assign photos to collections (not possible in SmugMug). I like being able to provide coupons to clients and I've already sent a recent bride a coupon - a first for me. I like the way I've been able to integrate zenfolio with my domain home, so the "Photos" link at my domain home points to my zenfolio home page.

Well done, zenfolio.

Will

Award

Jack Q — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:17:38 GMT

A nice surprise--one of my photos here at ZF won an award in the National Park Photo Contest, first one I've ever entered.

Here is the ZF link Rainbow Bridge ZF

Here is the National Park link Rainbow Bridge NP

Happy day.

Something Fishy Please

fe135 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:37:29 GMT

I have been experimenting with a fisheye lens for about a week now. Wow, new possibilities opened. So in order to see and learn different techniques, let’s see some fisheye photos. Fisheye or de-fished photos welcome. I’m sure all will enjoy and learn from this interesting effect.

Here are some of mine, fish and de-fished:

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p215532729/eb0a3327

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p215532729/e231251b1

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p729124012/e294177e0

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p729124012/e345b5b96

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p729124012/e1843c137

http://nealrideout.zenfolio.com/p970394618/e1ce6c120

Bring on the fish......

"Crazy" images - if you have any, share them with us.

click — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:35:57 GMT

http://jacekfortunaphotography.zenfolio.com/p894221986/hecc2a41#hecc2a41

The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today: A photo journey around the Wall

Bruce Willey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:37:22 GMT

This being the anniversary, thought I'd share some pics from the Berlin Wall. Last summer, I cycled around the entire path of the Wall, taking pictures and writing a story.

http://plumephotoproductions.zenfolio.com/p751900037

words can be found here: http://adventuresportsjournal.com/content/?p=1112

Thanks for looking.

Cheers, Bruce

Autumn - Share your best autumn image with us

jara — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:55:36 GMT

Starting with two of mine:

Katarina church, Stockholm, Sweden

http://jara.zenfolio.com/sweden/stockholm/h279a4cb0#h279a4cb0

Sunrise at Lappudden, The High Coast, Sweden:

http://jara.zenfolio.com/sweden/high_coast/h32f75a93#h2ea5e17b

Cheers

Janos

http://jara.zenfolio.com/

Mom digs my Landscapes, do you?

Ken Schram — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:56 GMT

Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to photography in general, but I'm having a lot of fun and hope to turn this new hobby into something that can sustain itself with a few print sales here and there. My first step was to start building an online portfolio (hello Zenfolio) - check. Step 2, leverage the community of people who have probably been doing this long enough that they'd be willing to share some constructive criticism to help me improve my craft.

While hearing "you're awesome" is nice, it isn't particularly helpful when what you're really after is feedback that can help you advance (same goes for "you suck" - no help there either). So, if there are any community members with landscape/nature experience that would be willing to offer their opinions, I would be very appreciative for the help. Also interested in hearing what other sites offer good venues for such critiques.

Thank you in advance. You'll find the link to my gallery in my signature.

Ken

Zenfolio Embeddable Slideshow in iWeb

Pavelena — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:19:58 GMT

I am excited to have integrated the embeddable slideshow in my website made in iWeb. Check it out!

Thank you for this feature Zenfolio!!!

Pavel

www.pavelena.com

Putra Mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia

zain — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:43:08 GMT

The Putra Mosque located in Putrajaya, the Malaysia's new administrative capital, was recently captured when I last visited Putrajaya. Enjoy the pictures, comments are welcome.

To see more of the Putra Mosque pictures please visit my zenfolio.

Share your best Black and White Photos

mduong — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:18:39 GMT

These are my favorite black and white photos so far.

Huangshan, China

International Finance Centre

Village in China

Come share with us your favorite Black and White photos.

Short Film Winner

Kevin Thompson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:24:47 GMT

This is someone's success story. This film won a best Short Film category. About 5 minutes, very touching.

"Leave Me" - A recent widower deals with his grief through his wife's broken camera.

Share your best wildlife shot

twigsandtracks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:25:22 GMT

Any other wildlife photogs out here? :-)

The summer sun was starting to lose its grip, ushered out by a gentle breeze carrying the smell of earth and clover. The stillness was broken by the drumming of hooves as they landed upon the field with a rhythmic cadence. At once she seemed to materialize from the grass and with a grace and ease quickly covered the expanse before us. A moment later the silence returned and she vanished into her surroundings, was she really there?

Impressionist Photos

asawyer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:32:36 GMT

I read an article by William Neill not too long ago on some of his impressionist photography work (see Outdoor Photographer article). Here are my first few attempts from a recent trip to Ozark National Scenic Riverways in southeast Missouri. Note that I only used Photoshop to try to get the colors to be as I remembered the scene...the blur is all due to camera motion during longer exposures.

1. Current River Impressions

2. Spirited Waters

I'd love to see other, similar work or at least here what you think.

Aaron

Aaron Sawyer Photography

http://asawyer.zenfolio.com/

New photo from Niphotos

niphotos — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:46:26 GMT

Hope this counts as a new photo , taken at Tollymore forest park a few days ago http://www.niphotos.com/tollymoreforest/h331ff56d#h331ff56d

Joe

Thanks Zenfolio community

Visual Ovation Photography — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:37:32 GMT

We joined the Zenfolio community in July, having checked out other sites and feeling that Zenfolio provided the most visually compelling site that was also reasonably priced. But we did not realize that we had signed up for more than that.

The product itself has been very user friendly. I am, in reality, "technologically challenged" and that I could get our site up and running and look as good as it has is testament to Zen's good design and clear instructions. The Zen staff have been fantastically responsive to questions and have been kind even when the issue really has been "operator error" - (Thanks Laura). I am impressed with the dedication the team has shown in terms of responding to comments or questions on these forums, and appreciate that they are trying to keep people up to date with upgrades, etc.

And then there is assistance from the community. As a result of submitting images to the Zen Homepage Contest, in conjunction with following specific recommendations by Kevin Thompson on getting sites indexed by Google, etc., our visitor numbers have gone from 131 on 10/5 to 683 as of today. That may not seem like a lot for many of you, but it is a huge amount for us. We have been found by Google and Bing (though it is odd that some of the hits are forum posts, but I suppose that however you get hit is fine). If you are wondering about how to get indexed, Kevin's post of 6/24/09 is really helpful.

I don't have a huge wish list for Zen improvements, but being able to have a more sophisticated custom home page was one of them. Even so, the Zen community helped with this, too. Kevin mentioned Wix and Lori DeLude's positive experiences and after seeing her very cool site, I tried it out. I had a couple of questions, and Lori was really helpful and kind, and forwarded the information that Kevin had sent her to help her out. She doesn't know me but still went over and above the call of duty to help - a great kindness. As a result of her (and indirectly, Kevin's) help, within a week I was able to revise aspects of our site. Thanks Lori! Thanks Kevin!

So now I've mentioned Kevin twice, it's time for a hearty public "Thank You" to him for his thoughtful and kind posts on these forums. He does so much not just to assist folks getting their sites up and running well, but also to encourage their work and welcome them to Zen. He is down-to-earth, positive and manages to respond kindly to even the most heated posts. I think he is one of the key reasons that the Zenfolio experience is so positive. Kevin, you are a gem (and a damned good photographer, too).

Now, I may not have really appreciated all this about the Zen community if I had not had a very different experience with another site. Bad customer service (repeated billing problems, requests for support not responded to), responses on public forums that, at least to my eye, at the best seemed curt, and at worst sometimes just did not seem terribly respectful, and - not surprisingly - some very unhappy customers. Granted, it seems like that company has some growing pains, but the overall tone and feel is so very different from Zen.

Finally, it's been so interesting and inspiring to read the various forums - I admit that more often than not I have been a "lurker" rather than a participant, but I have learned a huge amount, and it is marvellous to see others' work.

So: Thanks Zenfolio for a great product and fantastic staff and thanks to the Zen community for helping us in our development. We couldn't do it without you.

Stephanie

Who's your favorite pro?

asawyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:13:20 GMT

I know this is a bit different than other forum posts, but I'm curious to know about what other folks are looking at these days. So, who is your favorite pro, whether an old master or a new fish in this big photo pond? I figure this is a great way to get exposure to some new looks. My new personal favorite is John O'Connor:

http://www.johnoconnorphoto.com/

This photo is particularly mesmerizing. I find myself staring at it several times per day:

http://www.johnoconnorphoto.com/info/index.html