Category:On Assignment
On Assignment: Lighting in Tight Spaces
If you can’t stand the heat … get out of the kitchen. When I’m booking editorial photo shoots for restaurants, whether it’s food or...
Dodging a Rainy Bullet
St. Louis weather always keeps me guessing. Blistering heat one day, then cold and dreary the next. Toss in the odd tornado and/or momentous...
On-Assignment: St. Louis Magazine’s 50 Best Dishes
There is a lot of really excellent food in St. Louis, but with my work schedule I don’t get to eat out as much...
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...
On Being Prepared
There is no such thing as being prepared enough. As evidenced by shoot yesterday, nothing I did in advance could help me when the...
Fist Model Test
One of my shoots last week was for the current and previous three chairmen of the client company. It was a tough shoot, due...
Minneapolis
It’s been a busy week, and today was the first day back in the office. My last assignment before the long weekend was in...
Chicago
I am in Chicago for a shoot, then off to Minneapolis this afternoon for another shoot. It’s hectic and I’m tired of traveling alone...
Corporate Event Photography
One of the aspects of my job is to shoot events. It’s one of the things that I am least good at, and although...




