My wonderful friend Jess is just that. Wonderful. She’s beautiful, talented, smart, chill, artistic, blessed, need I say more? She house-sit for my family while we were away, and when I returned home she had left a playlist on my iTunes entitled, “and then jess stayed over.” I’ve been listening to it non-stop since I got home. Much to my surprise, I saw the last song on the list was called “Maybe” by Jess Janz. What? I clicked on it and the most amazing song came on. Jess is a guitar player and a song writer and a fantastic one at that. She’s opening for Jacob and Lily (whose music is featured on my website) next month, and I’m just so excited for what life has in store for her. I was out location scouting this morning, and found a few places to keep in mind. This place however, I found a few weeks ago and I have been DYING to shoot at. So we did.

Well about 30 minutes into the shoot, a guy walks to the back of the property where we were taking pictures and asks us what we’re doing. I explain that I’m a photographer and I loved this property and I’ve been looking at it forever wanting to shoot. I said I’m so sorry, but is this alright with you? I said, I would have totally phoned and asked, but I didn’t see anybody living here and it’s kind of abandoned. In the end, he gave me his phone number and said just to call before I shoot on his property again. It was worth it though! I get so frustrated looking for locations because it’s a lot of wasted hours, and most of the places I find I can’t get to that safely. We entered in his cell phone # into Jess’ cell phone while we were shooting. When I dropped Jess off at her car, she handed me the number of the owner with the title, “Sketchy.” Hah! I have to admit though, the place is a little creepy…abandoned places tend to give off that vibe.

Here’s the slideshow of our session. I just LOVED shooting this it was a blast. Oh, and the girl singing? It’s HER! Now you have to listen to it, right? Presenting “Maybe” by Jess Janz.