Gus Zimmerman has a long interest in photography and has been taking pictures since he was a young child when his dad gave him his first Brownie box camera.

As a man he worked to perfect his art, photographing birds and landscapes and people. He has worked and studied with some of the best teaching professional photographers in the industry, sharpening his skills as a photographer, technologically and artistically. These include Arthur Morris, Bob Davis and Peter Hurley.

His academic and workplace interests were and are in technology and have also sharpened his technological skills as a photographer.