viva las vegas

I fly out monday morning at 6:00am to las vegas to shoot a wedding. i'll be there until thursday evening when i'll fly home to arrive in chicago at 5:00am, then i have to shoot 3 weddings in a row - friday, saturday, sunday. wish me luck. i've never shot 4 weddings in a row, but there's a first for everything, right?

I'll be bringing both hasselblads with me, so there will be plenty of photographs of vegas when i return.

also, i put plenty of new photos up today. 2 new photographs of places, and 5 new photographs of people. take a look and enjoy.

new photos

i put some new photographs in the travel section of my trip with alex to milwaukee. check them out.

bands

now that jonshaft.com is up and running, i'd like to put this little offer out there for all of you musicians, bands, friends of bands and further, anyone who knows of a band:

I am getting back into photographing bands [ as i have been out of it for the past 2 years ] and I need to start somewhere, so I have decided [ for a limited time ] that I will be photographing your band/your friends band/you for free, and providing you with a disc of the images. this means live photographs and promo photographs. so call me up, or send me an email and let's get some photographs made.

thoughts on the new look

it's been roughly a week since the new design and photographs have been online, and i'm happy to say that i haven't gotten sick of seeing it all yet! thats a good sign.

it's not really news, but i changed out one of the music photographs - it is the photograph of jacob tyler wolfgang. if you're interested in checking it out, you should.

some real news though, i will be posting some new photographs from my trip to milwaukee that alex and i took a few weeks back - there are some beauties in there, so keep your eyes out for those.

new site, new blog

so this is my new blog, to go along with the new look at jonshaft.com

i'll be updating this as regularly as possible with photos, news, etc...

hope you'll check back regularly.