Photography is and always has been my biggest love. It hasn't always been the thing I do to make money, but I'm so grateful that it is now! I practice many different types of photography but I am at my happiest when I am shooting portraits and weddings or events. I also love to restore old photographs! Check out my website to learn more about my business: Jess LeClair Photography

I am also co-editor (with my amazing husband Matt) of a vended magazine called Callithump! Check out the website to learn more or to submit something of your own!

Recently, I've started blogging again. It's mostly a big pile of all the things I've been thinking about or working on or have been inspired by. Which is why I ended up calling it The Compost Pile. You can read it at mycompostpile.wordpress.com/

One of my other big loves is living in Maine! My husband and I both grew up here (me in the south, him up nahth) and we can't imagine ever living anywhere else. We started a group to express that love and since he is the real writer in the family, I'm going to let him explain why:

The State of Maine, located as far northeast as you can go in the USA, is incredibly photogenic. Wide open ocean in one direction, forests in another, majestic mountains in a third, it is little wonder we have so many landscape photographers in this state! And yet just out of frame is a trailer home with twenty rusting cars surrounding it guarded by an alcoholic with a shotgun. Just past the trailer is a multi-million dollar mansion owned by a New York City lawyer who stays there two weeks out of the year. Maine is a place of contradictions, where incredible beauty lives 180 degrees from utter despair. It is a place that people live because they love it here, or because they're trapped here.

We're Maine's Rogue Photographers. We see what the tourists don't see. We know there's more to photographing Maine than landscape photography, and we're not afraid to share it.