I GENUINELY LOVE THE VULNERABILITY OF CAPTURING A PERSON IN ALL THEIR IN BETWEEN MOMENTS...

I’ve been shooting professionally for almost fifteen years now and I’ve had a camera basically glued to my hand since I was ten. It all started with my mom’s love for capturing and celebrating all the moments of our childhood, we had disposable cameras galore. I’m pretty sure I’ve still got some undeveloped ones in a box somewhere along with every negative I ever developed myself, and all their corresponding prints.

From childhood the ember fanned into a flame as I started taking photography classes in high school. A couple of years into my college career a friend reached out and asked if I’d be willing to take some headshots of her and I posted them to MySpace, which led to my first client and the rest is history so to speak. I realized over time, and through a couple of different majors in college, that my love never went away and settled into fine arts of photography. I've never stopped pursuing making and developing my artistic skills.

I shot mostly weddings for the first ten years in my business but definitely didn’t let that stop me from trying my hand at everything that peaked my interest. I spent time photographing children and families in retail studios for a year and realized my forte isn’t in that area. I have thousands of photos that’ll never see the light of day of flowers, trees, and random objects. That definitely tied into my love for ring shots and every little detail.

My interest in headshots comes from my love of fashion photography, I genuinely love the vulnerability of capturing a person in all their in between moments. I’ve spent a lot of time photographing people and what makes me happiest is connecting to the core of a person. We all deserve to be seen and appreciated for who we are.

P. S. Personality is everrrrything:

We'll get along great if you value being comfortable in your own skin, even if you hate being in front of the camera like I do. I'll be your hype girl and awkward bestie rolled into one.

We'll also get along great if you're a fan of having multiple drink options at your desk while working, my go to's are water, coffee, lavender matcha, or dirty chai, and sweet tea.

We'll get along great if you love learning new things and talking about ideas. Around here we usually end up discussing things like food, pop culture, traveling, making art, history, and random useless facts.

Lastly tell me what one food you'd pick if you had to live on it for the rest of your life, I'd pick sushi!

- Jenna | Founder of J.Renee Photo

"Photography takes an instant out of time altering life by holding it still."

-Dorothea Lange