I'm Jeannie Randolph

I fell in love with travel and photography when I was 12 or 13. I grew up traveling to national parks around the United States because my dad loved it. We'd RV as a family and learn about nature and history. My dad always said that you didn't just get an education from a classroom, so we'd spend some of each summer learning with a different perspective.

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And then we started snow skiing as a family! One year on a trip to Colorado, we stopped in Chama, New Mexico and there were hot air balloons taking flight. I started taking pictures with my dad's camera, and the photography bug got me!  I think pretty much from that moment forward, I've had a camera in my hand.

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In high school, I was the yearbook editor, and a photographer for four years, learning to develop and print black and white photos and process color film in the dark room. At Texas A&M University, I was a photographer for the world's largest student yearbook, The Aggieland.  When I became a business owner, I learned magazine photography and did photo shoots around Albuquerque with models, scrim holders and merchandisers. What an adrenaline rush that was! These days, I mainly shoot iPhone photography but after my trip to Mexico to photograph the Monarch Butterflies, I'm leaning back in to my Canon camera and lenses.

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I've also spent a large amount of my adult life traveling to Europe, hiking in the mountains of the southwestern US, and photographing landscapes, architecture and animals. Trips to Cuba, Africa and Mexico reignited my love of travel and photography which has inspired me to be a travel host and take travelers to places near and far.

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