About Jess

I’m from the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia and currently live in the mountains of Northern California with my husband and two blue heelers.

I first picked up a camera when I was 15. I knew I wanted to learn how to use an SLR, and while on a family holiday in Tasmania I waited until we hiked into Freycinet’s Wineglass Bay to get a lesson on mum’s old Pentax. I wanted to take my first photo ‘somewhere’. So I got a lesson in shutter speeds and F-stops amongst tourists at the lookout over the bay.

Since that moment, my desire has been to capture a place: to capture a sense of it, to capture whatever ineffable thing it is that makes it different to all other places, its colours, textures, light, landscape, architecture, ways of life. I like people to look at my photos and feel the place.

These days I shoot on a Sony A7R III and four Zeiss Batis prime lenses: 25mm, 40mm, 85mm and 135mm. I choose to use prime lenses so I have to work a little harder to make the photo.