MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER:

My love of the outdoors started when I was around eleven and my father, who was a college professor – and had the summers off, bought a camping trailer and we toured the USA for six weeks. The National and State Parks we visited were spectacular and had a large influence on me.  I had a Kodak black and white camera back then and started taking pictures.   When a date was chosen and Earth Day was first established and celebrated in 1970, it happened to be my birthday. That fact pleased me greatly.

My involvement with the Boy Scouts of America (B.S.A.) honed my love of the outdoors and I joined the Sierra Club in my twenties when I was living in NYC.

Buddy Jenssen at the equator in Kenya.

I nearly always shoot outdoors, although I was trained as a still life photographer, I enjoy the challenges of being outside and stalking large or small wildlife, I consider my images my trophies.

I got involved in professional photography when I left college and worked in Manhattan as a photographer’s assistant. I advanced to shooting still life photography using a large format 8×10 view camera. When I left the studio, I could get freelance jobs on my own doing my own still life and corporate photography, but I was always traveling on my own time to shoot landscapes and wildlife photography between client work.

Many photographers have influenced me over the years, including Ansel Adams, Dennis Stock and Douglas Faulkner to name just a few. I want to chronicle and protect the natural world before it vanishes.

I enjoy street photography as well as wildlife and landscapes. I think the message from my photography will be interpreted differently by all people, which is alright by me. If someone just like the image because they like giraffes, that’s fine. I’d like to show the beauty, grace and strength of nature and help people become aware that we are all interdependant on the natural Earth and must preserve and protect it.

Respectfully,