Roger Brendhagen
Imagine having the world as your office. Imagine your models not caring one iota about their appearance. This is the fortunate situation, Roger Brendhagen finds himself in, approximately 300 days of the year. Although born in Oslo in 1968, this Nature Photographer extraordinaire and his family later moved northwards, settling in the beautiful countryside province of Hedemark. The forestry, wildlife, mountains, rivers and valleys of this area certainly played a role in Roger’s choice of photographic themes. Roger has photographic affiliations with Nikon and for the last fourteen years he has been a Nikon Ambassador.
He has extensive experience taking nature photos and submitting articles to both magazines and newspapers, amongst these the Nordic countries as well as many others spread across Europe. During the rare periods that Roger is not travelling the world, he spends a good deal of time in the Dovrefjell mountain range, his second home, Brendhagen is currently working on a book featuring both this amazing animal as well as the small mountain fox.
Roger takes as much pleasure shooting images of a tiny Bullfinch, high up in the Norwegian mountains, as he does flitting about the Australian outback, capturing images of Emus or Koala Bears with his telephoto lens. Where most people would shy away, Brendhagen prefers to get close up and take macro photography of both venomous and constrictor snakes.
He often holds courses and workshops in macro and nature photography, reaching almost 6000 participants in 2016. Recently Roger has had many exhibitions of his photographic work taken from the Antarctic in the south to Svalbard in the north. Brendhagen is a jury member at various photo competitions, often taking part in them. He has won several prizes and this year he had two awards in the 2018 Windland Smith Rice International Awards, and you can see his pictures in the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington.
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