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Website Refresh and PhotoShelter Integration
I usually try to update my website every year or so to adapt for the way that my career and life has evolved. Last year when I updated jonathangayman.com I was more focused on marketing towards my corporate clients, but in the past year my work has started to slide more towards the food and [...]
Sauce Magazine – July 2011
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did some work for Sauce Magazine, a culinary magazine here in St. Louis. While the majority of my work these days is corporate, I have been exploring food culture and photography over at my blog Shoot To Cook, and it is always exciting to get food assignments. [...]
New Work: The Boat House
In the world of corporate photography, the summer is always the slowest time of the year. In my experience Memorial Day sparks the time of the year when companies face the challenge of dealing with vacations. I think that in a lot of cases, one or more decision makers for any given project are out [...]
Fourth of July
Celebrating our second Independence Day in St. Louis was even more fun than last year’s. This year we threw a little barbecue in our new (and still mostly empty) loft studio then walked down to the Arch to watch the fireworks. Last year we stayed outside the crowd and watched from the north side of [...]
iPhone Weekend
I’ve been utilizing my iPhone more and more these days for my “always with me camera”. Here are some of the images I shot over the weekend running around town with a borrowed poodle and some house-guests.
Going Farther
There is nothing more satisfying than making a photograph that you are really excited about. When I make a shot that really inspires me, I usually make a hardcopy print, and keep going back to it over and over again to relive the excitement. Sometimes I even put the hardcopy on my bed side table [...]
COLOR Magazine Bronze Award
I was at my favorite bookstore, Left Bank Books today and much to my surprise I found that the latest issue of COLOR Magazine was already on the shelves (as of this writing they have not updated their website to the current issue). I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of their most recent special [...]
In Which I Lose A Large Portion of My Morning
Uh oh. Just came across PocketBooth, a new app for my iPhone. I love photobooths – the old fashioned coin operated ones not the fancy schmancy ones that print clever sayings on your photos. Nothing is more spontaneous and fun. Now I can do it on my iPhone. Oh the humanity. Now I won’t get [...]
Companion at Niche
I was recently invited to attend an event at Niche along with other local bloggers and food writers. Sponsored by Companion the event was hosted by Josh Allen of Companion and Chef Gerard Craft of Niche, a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2008 and a two-time James Beard Finalist. Companion’s bread is served [...]
Food Gallery
Jonathan is also a food photographer in St. Louis. He publishes a food blog called Shoot To Cook which features his recipes and experimentations in the kitchen. Check out his portfolio for some of his recent work as well as the samples below. This is a gallery of some on his recent work. Click on [...]
Making Pasta
I love the taste of home made pasta. Like home made bread, it is hard to go back to the store bought kind once you’re used to making it at home. While home made pasta can be enjoyable, intense and delicious, making it can sometimes inspire madness (like a Fellini film). This short series of [...]
Shoot To Cook
One of my motivations for getting into food photography was learning how to cook. As a way for me to learn how to be more competent in the kitchen and to hone my technique in food photography I started a food blog called Shoot To Cook: A Food and Photography Blog. On the blog I [...]
Portraits
Nothing says success like a professional portrait. Jonathan has worked with Fortune 500 companies on marketing materials, annual reports and national ad campaigns. Portraits aren’t just for your annual report either. A great portrait on your Facebook page, LinkedIn profile or Twitter feed goes a long way. Jonathan specializes in contextual and environmental portraits that [...]
Vegetation
Having grown up with a large and luscious family garden, I am drawn to the amazing shapes and colors that can be found in the garden, both during the spring and summer growing months, but also during the cold, winter months when the frost decimates the cabbages and flowers that lay forgotten the garden. Click [...]
Fall Foods
When the fall hits, the farmers market stalls get emptier and the foods that are available lend themselves to warm comfort foods rather than the cool, refreshing vegetables of the summer.
Shoot to Cook: A Photographer Learns to Cook
As many of my regular readers will know, I’ve been working on a personal project in between paying gigs for the last few weeks, and I’m now ready to go public with it. I have always wanted to learn how to cook. I mean to really learn how to cook. I have gone through phases [...]
Is My Starter Started, Starting, or Stopped?
One of the things that I want to do is photograph bread. I have been wanting to do a bread related project for some time – though I was scooped on the idea by Thomas Broening who does amazing table top work including a series on bread recently. The thing is, I would like to [...]
Work Continues, Progress Happens. Slowly.
I have been working pretty hard at a couple of new projects. I’m learning a lot and attempting to set a foundation for the work that I’d like to do next year and moving forward. As a general rule I am going to be withholding this new work until I have a body of work. [...]
New Projects and Pie
I know, I know, it’s been forever and a day since my last blog post. One excuse is that I have been working my ass off since the middle of August and haven’t had much time. The other excuse is that I have decided to spend a few weeks/months working on business promotional ideas as [...]
Fog And The City
I just got back from a week in NYC. I had a couple of jobs for early in the week and then stayed on for a few days to see my friends. It was a lot of fun to be back – good times were had by all. I didn’t shoot as much as I [...]
St. Louis Hot Air Balloon Race
Xina and I stopped by Forest Park last night to see the hot air balloons. It was pretty impressive although we got there a little too late for me to get good sunset photos of the balloons. Like most St. Louis events, I found this one to be full of energy and people, but not [...]
Returning to Normality
Airport, by Jonathan Gayman. As you can probably tell from my previous posts and also from the silence around the blog that I’ve been hella-busy for the last month. A number of large projects all hit at roughly the same time and I have been on the road more than I’ve been home. I have [...]
Heading Home…Eventually
I am finally nearing the end of my epic photography projects that have kept me away from home for the last three weeks. My last three day trip turned into a 10 day trip, but I’m nearly done. The rest of the month is going to be nuts as well, but I’m hoping to get [...]