Jack Teagarden and his wife Debra reside in Yuba City California. They share three grown children and actively travel throughout the north state and beyond during their free time searching for photographic opportunities.
Jack is a northern California native who grew up with a strong love of the outdoors. An avid sportsman, Jack spent many years teaching scuba diving, instructing rope rescue to safety personnel, volunteering as a search and rescues diver and trainer, reaching the rank of lieutenant within the Butte county Sheriff’s Search and Rescue unit. Jack also spent many years as a volunteer reserve Game Warden and hunter safety instructor with the California Department of Fish and Game. Jack now hunts with a camera and a tri-pod.
As a former police officer /K-9 handler with the Oroville Police Department, Jack started the first police canine unit in Butte County. After 10 years in law enforcement, Jack moved to the insurance industry where he worked as an investigator. For the last 10 years he has managed anti-fraud activities in the western United States for various insurance carriers.
Jack began taking photographic images in 1975 while studying photography with instructor Charles Barnett at Yuba Community college in Marysville, California. It was during this class that he attended a seminar taught by Ansel Adams. Mr. Adams work inspired Jack to develop his passion and to regularly travel throughout the state to capture the light in our parks and wild places.
Jack has regularly entered his work in photographic competitions and has been awarded dozens of awards, including nearly two dozen first place ribbons and ‘’Best of Show.’
Jack’s work can be viewed on display in the lobby of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Sacramento, California.
