Updates on travels, adventures and news from Jess McGlothlin Media.
Happy to see this image, shot on assignment for onX Hunt a few winters ago in Pennsylvania, show up on the company’s home page this week. We spent several cold mornings out in goose blinds tucked into farmer’s fields in rural Pennsylvania and New Jersey for this shoot, and it was a productive few days!
After a long Montana winter—February 2019 was one of the coldest in the Big Sky State’s history—the onX tribe has been feeling the spring itch. We’re ready to get outside, log some miles in a non-snowy environment and just generally enjoy being out without the seemingly-mandatory five layers of winter clothing. Spring is finally here, but the season took its time arriving.
A couple days spent in turkey camp, shooting images and writing a piece for onX Hunt, was the prefect reminder that at the end of the day, it’s the little things in life that matter the most. Laugher around the campfire with friends, logging miles in big, open country and crisp early mornings waking up outside.
Explore the full photo essay on onX’s website here.
This week’s assignment was an entirely new subject matter—turkey hunting. Shooting for onX Hunt, I joined a couple other members of the Missoula-based onX team and headed to north-central Montana, on the edge of the famed Missouri River Breaks, to chase some turkeys.
Once at camp, we were joined by a handful of hunt-savvy folks from around Montana and Colorado, and spent a quality couple days hunting, hiking, shed hunting, fishing for catfish and just quality time around the campfire. On all good adventures, there’s always something that goes haywire, and in this case it was one of the guy’s trucks getting stuck in the mud and a morning-long rescue operation. But it made for plenty of laughs and good-natured ribbing in camp, so all was well with the world.
The images will be coming to onX channels soon, so stay tuned.
Sometimes in life, we’re lucky enough to randomly meet people who restore our faith in all things good. Brandon Moss is one of these people. When I headed to northeastern Montana to photograph a sage grouse hunt for onX Hunt last September, I didn’t know much about the Billings, Montana, hunter the team would be meeting in the small agricultural town of Malta. Over the next few days, I logged miles moving through the sage-covered hills, talking with Brandon about his family’s history in Montana, his Brittany spaniels and his goal to raise his three young girls in the great open spaces of the West.
I left the shoot feeling hopeful, fulfilled and excited for the future of Montana outdoorsmen and women. (And also with my first sharptail in the cooler ready to be breasted out and served for dinner.)
Thanks to Brandon for letting me tag along, and to the guys behind Project Upland Magazine for including this feature in their premiere issue. Brandon’s family images brought the entire feature home.
Read “Generations of Sage” in Project Upland Volume 1, Issue 1.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with the gang over at onX Hunt, tackling writing and also photography (when I can sneak away). Recently, I found myself venturing away from the fishing world and heading out on assignment for onX to rural Pennsylvania and New Jersey (aka: not my usual haunts) to photograph a late-season goose hunt.
The resulting images and stories were used cross-channel for the brand, including a dedicated blog (Camaraderie in the Blind), email, social media images and takeover, as well as stock imagery for image archives. Check out the full breadth of the mini-campaign here, and let me know where you think I should be heading next to photograph!
