Jon Vreuls was raised in Southern California where he developed his passion for photography while traversing the garishly spectacular deserts of the American southwest.

Jacqueline Vreuls is a certified teacher from North Carolina who spent her formative years working for a helicopter charter company in the Virgin Islands.

Jon and Jackie moved to Miramar Beach in 2002. They discovered it to be the ideal place to raise children, and it was the birth of their first daughter that finally convinced Jon to give up the romance of film and switch to digital photography, an art medium so much more powerful than just a means for a quick e-mail. Emerald Coast Portraits was created in 2007 to serve the growing need quality photography with a unique style along the Beaches of South Walton.

They have three daughters, Briana, Erika and Katharina.