Updates on travels, adventures and news from Jess McGlothlin Media.
Just spent a few quick days down in Baja California Sur fishing in the MAJA El Grande Tournament and covering a few assignments for various outlets. Stories coming soon—watch my social for updates!—but in the meantime, here’s a few snapshots of a very (too!) quick job south of the border.
Ready to get back to Mexico and spend more time…
Had such a pleasure shooting images and video for The Wall Street Journal‘s feature on 100-year-old swimmer Charlotte Sanddal. What a legend! Charlotte and her trainer Peggy met me at the Helena, Montana, YMCA early on a cool, rainy morning last week, and were gracious enough to put up with me sticking cameras in their faces and flying a drone over the pool as they worked. Both these ladies were fantastic to work with, and it was a pleasure to work with the WSJ team again.
Give the article a read here.
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!
Had no idea this Chile shoot in February with Zach Lazzari and Skylar Lamont would be the last travel for a while. Most of these assets are on hold for another client, but really excited to see this “Van Tours” feature run on Men’s Journal, talking about Zach and Shale’s epic adventure through the Americas, fishing along the way.
Zach and Shale are two of the coolest travelers I’ve had the pleasure to meet, and it was such a pleasure to be able to head down to Chile and join them for one of the final weeks of their epic trip. This pair accomplished a hell of a trip over the past couple years… give the article a read for the full story.
Here’s a quick excerpt:
With each road bump, dust puffs up to coat the van’s driver, Zach Lazzari, and his co-pilot, Shale. The 11-year-old dog serves as traveling companion, nighttime guard, curious conversationalist, and convenient icebreaker: She’s an impossibly fluffy red mutt whom Lazzari found a decade ago in a Montana animal shelter. There, in a building full of dogs needing homes, Shale was the only one who ignored Lazzari. He knew it was meant to be.
The pair have been living in Lazzari’s tattered GMC Safari van since September 2018, when his marketing automation job at a Missoula, Mont., tech company began to feel more soul-sucking, and less like a job he could tolerate. He decided it was time to revisit an old dream: take the long drive down to visit the rivers he’d grown to love since his last season working as a fly-fishing guide in Chilean Patagonia in 2016, with Shale as his traveling companion. Along the way, he’d explore new water and fish corners of the world far, far removed from most fly anglers’ purview.
Lazzari quit his job and bought the 1994 Safari, abandoned in a Missoula alley, for a grand total of $900. It took merely a month for a quick build-out of basic living quarters…
I very remember coming back to Santiago after a week pretty well removed from the world and standing, filthy and in need of a shower, in the airport and watching the news. It was the first week of March, and in the space of a few weeks the world had started a dramatic change. Now it’s the first week of April and this trip feels like a lifetime ago. I still have faith that sometime this year we’ll be traveling again, and I’m already looking forward to the next adventure with Zach, Shale, and Skylar.
Thanks for reading, folks.
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!
