Priscilla Dale Jones took her first photographs as a child growing up in Coronado with a Kodak camera her father gave her. She has always enjoyed photographing water, especially the Pacific Ocean. The ever-changing nature and unique characteristics of water inform all of her macro photography. Her work is held in private collections in California, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and has been exhibited in juried group shows, art fairs, and/or galleries in San Diego; Florida; Texas; Artexpo New York, Manhattan; and the Tokyo Tower Art Fair, Japan.

A graduate of Coronado High School, SDSU, and UCLA, Priscilla holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her twenty-six-year career as a federal historian in the Washington, D.C., area included tenure as the first chief historian of the Department of Homeland Security and several positions with the Air Force history program, including director of histories and studies, Air Force Historical Studies Office.

Water is essential to life on Earth. Its unique characteristics make it an endlessly compelling photographic subject. Its nature is ever-changing—always beautiful but often dangerous, sometimes tranquil but eternally unpredictable, immensely powerful but tragically fragile.

My images capture a fleeting moment in time, a brief second of existence, an impermanent shape, a changing pattern, a chance combination, a perishable form that no longer exists and can never be reconstructed. They are a reminder of the imperative to respect, protect, and preserve our oceans and seas, lakes and streams, in the face of marine degradation across the globe.