Fifteen to twenty days. That’s roughly what this website rebuild took. Full-time work, on-site, on a platform I had never touched before. I did it myself. Not because I had to. Because I was curious.

On Julia Child, disco balls, and why I finally started writing to you. I was maybe six years old. Sesame Street had just ended. And there was Julia Child on PBS, cooking away, talking to the camera like it was the most natural thing in the world.  Attempting to throw live lobsters into boiling water […]

And why it matters more than you think. I have opinions about grey backdrops for branding photos. Strong ones. Here’s one. The grey seamless backdrop is the khaki pants of personal brand photography. Safe. Unremarkable. The visual equivalent of saying absolutely nothing at all. And look, I get it. Nobody chose grey because they wanted […]

On culinary community, coming home, and what happens when you walk back through a gate that shaped you. Jama Finney is a brand and food photographer based in Louisville, Kentucky, now actively booking photography sessions in Indianapolis, Indiana. I’ve stood on pit lane before. At the 500 track visiting friends in the garages, at Raceway […]

Travel photography shot on my Canon 5D Mark IV and digital medium format – #fujigfx100ii On creative evolution, culinary roots, and what a broken shutter taught me about letting go. I was walking up to Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland with my ladies travel group. Irene, my traveling sister from another mister, at my side. I […]

There are conversations that feel like a meeting. And then there are the ones that feel like a continuation. Here’s what nobody says about being photographed. Your brand photography is only as good as what happened in the room. You can have the best glass, the most beautiful location, the outfit that finally makes you […]

On mountains, mentorship, and what happens when curiosity finally gets you in the kitchen.  Musings of my 1:1 food photography and styling mentorship with Eva Kosmas Flores in Washington State this summer.  And what it means to be a creative in the ever evolving photography industry. Jama Finney is a brand and culinary photographer based […]