ABOUT LANCE
Lance Krueger is one of the most published whitetail deer and wild turkey photographers in the world.
As a native Texan, Lance is a full-time professional photographer and outdoor writer who travels extensively photographing wildlife, hunting and fishing scenes throughout North America. Lance's extensive photographic coverage of the whitetail deer and wild turkeys for over 35 years includes more states and provinces than any other professional photographer, and he has photographically captured whitetail deer and wild turkeys doing, literally, everything whitetail deer and wild turkeys do.
Lance holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Business Marketing from the University of Texas-RGV. Lance lives in his hometown of McAllen with his wife Deborah, daughters Elizabeth, Caroline, and Lorien, and son, Joseph. McAllen is at the southern most point in Texas near the Rio Grande River and lives only eight miles north of the country of Mexico. This is the area of the famed "South Texas Brush Country" where the whitetail bucks grow to enormous proportions and the diamondback rattlesnakes grow even larger!
South Texas is where Lance started his photography career in 1985 photographing wildlife where everything either "bites, pokes or stings ya." However, most of what Lance photographs now are trophy whitetail deer, wild turkeys, and other game species; as well as hunters and fishermen, while traveling extensively across the United States and Canada throughout the year. Lance has hundreds of thousands of slides and over 2 million digital images of wildlife, hunters and fishermen in action. Of all the species in North America Lance has photographed, his passion is photographing the biggest whitetail bucks and boss gobblers he can find, which you will find on this website, on his social media pages, and in the pages of the most prestigious hunting and fishing publications in North America.
As a student of hunting, fishing, and wildlife behavior throughout his life, showing these subjects in an accurate light is a hallmark of Lance's photos. Specifically, Lance attributes his success photographing whitetail deer and wild turkeys to his lifelong study of these secretive game animals at close quarters. Much time is spent in blinds observing mature whitetail bucks and turkey longbeards that are totally unmolested and going about their normal behavior, on their level, at the close range photography demands, something most hunters never get to experience. Lance has spent so much time with trophy bucks close up, that he knows what whitetail deer are going to do before the deer themselves know they are going to do it. This is why he is able to capture such awesome behavior and action in these incredible animals. Lance is one of the few photographers to have professionally and extensively photograph the "Royal Slam" of wild turkeys, which are the five subspecies of wild turkeys in the U.S. : Eastern, Rio Grande, Osceola, Merriams, and Goulds. Lance is able to share his experiences and observations of these seldom seen behaviors with hunters and wildlife viewers, bringing his subjects to life through his published photos in the national hunting and conservation magazines, and social media. His dedication, love and passion for whitetail deer, wild turkeys, hunting, fishing, photography, and conservation have combined to create his distinctive, gritty style of imagery that is so popular in the national hunting and fishing magazines, and has earned him high regard in his field.
Now considered one of the top whitetail deer and wild turkey photographers in the world, Lance has had thousands of his photos appear on the covers and inside most of the national hunting and fishing magazines over his career; as well as, articles he writes for books and magazines. His photos are a mainstay on the covers of the most prestigious hunting and fishing publications in the world. Lance is a Contributing Photographer for Field & Stream and Outdoor Life magazines, and a partial list of other magazines his photos have been published in are Gamekeepers, Petersen's Bowhunting, Buckmasters, Bowhunter, Deer & Deer Hunting, Bowhunting World, Whitetail Journal, Petersen's Hunting, among many others. Lance has had more cover photos on Field & Stream magazine than any other photographer alive or to have lived.
Lance's photos have also appeared nationally and internationally in books, calendars, brochures, advertisements, websites, apparel, catalogs, products, packaging, artist renderings, and even billboards for some of the top companies around the world. His photos have also won numerous first place prizes in several national photography contests. However, these days Lance attends as a judge of photography contests across the U.S., rather than as a competitor. In addition, Lance has been the guest on many podcasts, and as the featured speaker at conferences, game dinners, and venues around the United States where he speaks about his photography career and techniques, and shares his knowledge of the whitetail deer and their behavior. Through his innovative photography style and published work, Lance has created a high demand for his photography by supplying incredible images to his clients locally, nationally, and internationally.