At any given moment I can be found living, working or playing somewhere in the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Italy, France, England, Greece, the Virgin Islands or South Pacific. But for the most part, I live in California as a resident of both Los Angeles and Santa Cruz, just south of San Francisco along the Monterey Bay Peninsula. Here, I explore the enchanting mountains, forests, rivers and coasts of California in search of the next redwood, monarch butterfly or sea lion that may serve as a muse for potential prose and picture making.

Raised here and there, in just about every small town south of the Mason-Dixon Line, my family and I moved frequently living off the land. We created small, self-sustaining family farms complete with goats, pigs, chickens and fruit and vegetable gardens. My fondest childhood memories are of being alone deep in the woods, swimming and fishing with my brothers in rivers and freshwater springs (I loved cleaning the dead fish we caught), walking barefoot along hot dirt roads, listening to southern rock, playing naked in the yard with my mother, making homemade curtains, eating organic hippie food with my father and spending summers with my grandparents collecting shells along the coasts of Florida.

Over the past 15 years I've worked in industries such as Fashion, Entertainment, Finance, Publishing, Hospitality, Alternative Health and Hospitality. Recently I worked as a travel writer, photographer and environmental editor with a publishing company based in Southern California. Eager to diversify my portfolio of work and further my education, I left the position in SoCal earlier this year to enter the spontaneous world of freelancing while completing my university studies. In the Portfolio section of my website you can view my most recent published work.

Environmental issues such as global warming, ocean preservation and wildlife protection are foundational elements of my work. The environmental movement is the largest, most significant movement humankind has attempted and I consider myself a faithful soldier in this regard. Our relationship to the planet is not interdependent as so many people seem to forget. We need the earth, air, oceans, rivers and animals to survive – they do not need us. We evolved from the earth; the earth did not evolve from us. The earth was here long before us; and the earth will live on long after we’re gone. And so it is that I remain in humble servitude to my dear Mother Earth – creating my life’s work from the intention How Can I Help?

- Jenna Cavelle

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