Thanks for visiting my website! So what most people want to know is… what kind of wildlife photographer am I? I strongly believe that wildlife photography needs to be of wild animals, being wild. This means no game farms or captive animals, it means no baiting (with food, calls, or any direct human-provided attractant), and it means not doing anything intentionally to alter the animal’s behavior so I can get a photo. I like to use my knowledge of habitat requirements, tracking, and animal behavior to find wildlife and spend as much time with them as they'll allow. When it comes to processing my photos, I like to do as little as possible. I won’t remove things like buildings or fences, and I also won’t add anything like mountains, clouds, or other animals. The scene stays pretty much as it is, and I'll try to keep the mood and emotion in the photo that I felt when I was there.

I'm a 34-year-old wildlife biologist (MS), conservationist, and educator who grew up in Greybull, Wyoming near the east gate of Yellowstone. From an early age my hero was Steve Irwin who fostered my passion for wildlife with the help of some very supportive parents. Wildlife conservation is my passion, especially of species most threatened or underappreciated, and I've worked in all avenues of that including research, management, and education. Through my professional life I've worked with bottlenose dolphins, endangered sea turtles, manatees, what might be the only successful rehabilitation and release of pygmy killer whales, endangered interior least terns (for my master's), softshell turtles, ground squirrels, birds of prey, owls, woodpeckers, sage grouse, and more! I've dedicated my life to the mission of wildlife conservation and I try to use my photography as a tool for wildlife education as I share every photo with animal facts on social media (Facebook, and Instagram @trevorjensen_photo). Even if people don't read the captions, hopefully my photos will inspire them to care about nature and wildlife just a little bit more.

Here's my all-time favorite quote about wildlife, "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilizations surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod 

So thank you for visiting my website and letting me share my wildlife encounters with you! I'm truly passionate about this, about conserving and protecting wildlife, about experiencing wildlife, and about inspiring others to care about wildlife. "If we can touch people with wildlife, they'll want to save it. Come with me! Share my wildlife with me! Because humans want to save things that they love. My job, my mission, the reason I've been put on to this planet, is to save wildlife, and I thank you for coming with me." - Steve Irwin