About

You are invited to follow along as we travel capturing images of the natural and sometimes surreal world.

Wildlife, Landscape, and Outdoor Recreation Photography is our specialty at Jess Lee Photos. Assignment, Stock, decor photography and Photo workshops/tours comprise the major parts of our business. Here you can view stunning images from one of the worlds most published wildlife and nature photographers. Jess was recently highly acclaimed by Natures Best Magazine and is one of the top money winners in the world’s richest photo contest, Images for Conservation. Photographs are available as custom prints to Corporate and individual clients.

Home and business is located a short distance from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Jess been living, photographing, guiding and instructing in the Yellowstone eco-system for over 30 years. While this is great Nature, Wildlife and Travel destination. Jess spends over 200 days each year in the field adding to his already large stock file.

Each year a few field trips are shared with a select group of photo adventures during our No Rules Road trips and small group workshops

Editors and art directors can browse our main stock site to select images for your latest project. You can click on the e-mail link below to discuss you project and your custom photo needs. For personal attention you can call 208-521-5170 and speak to Jess or one of the staff directly. We daily provide electronic submissions of hi-res print ready files from clients on line selections.

Jess’s love affair with photography began in his teens in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains where he was raised. This early passion for being in the outdoors with a camera lead to his doing reconnaissance photography for various US government agency’s during his early 20’s while serving in the military . For over the next 30 years Jess and his wife Carol balanced, running a stock photography business, serving as staff photographer on several magazines, a career in the communication industry and raising a family. In 1999 he left the bounds of the corporate world to pursue his photography career fulltime.

Jess’s photos have appeared in many diverse publications from Paris Match, National Geographic, Defenders of Wildlife, Audubon, Wilderness, National Parks, Sports Afield, Sierra Magazine , among others. He has also contributed to several regional magazines and newspapers Today, while a couple of book projects on endangered places are progressing, much of his work is used by advertising clients from industries as varied as Automotive, Banking and Sporting goods..

Jess Lee lives in Southeast Idaho, with Yellowstone and the magnificent Tetons in his very backyard. This is his base, where he not only supplies images for publication but he also shares his expertise with others through photo workshops and tours.

Selected credits: Audubon, Defenders, Field & Stream, Geo, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, National Geographic World, National Wildlife, National Parks, U.S. National Park Service, Nature Conservancy, NRDC, Outdoor Life, San Francisco Examiner, Scientific American, Sierra, Sports Afield, Der Stern, Trout, Woman’s World, Wyoming Wildlife. Author/Photographer: Fly Fisherman, Das Stern, Rod & Reel, Das Tier, Trout, Western Outdoors. Books: American Geographic, Houghton Mifflin, National Geographic, Time-Life, Riverbend. Calendars: Day Dream, National Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund. Advertising/Corporate: ATT, Autolite, Orvis, USWest. Calendars: Day Dream, National Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund