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About
Leonard Rue Video
Leonard Rue Video was formed in 1989 in conjunction with Leonard Rue
Enterprises, Inc., a major supplier of still photography, to offer
a wider range of photographic services.
 Dr.
Leonard Lee Rue III, a world renown wildlife photographer for
over 50 years is one of the nation's foremost naturalists. His
expertise
in photographing wildlife and many years of field experience have enabled
him to capture in-depth wildlife behavioral activity. His goal
is to
show everyone, especially the children, wildlife as they may never
be able to see it for themselves. Leonard Rue Video Productions,
Inc. provides
excellent broadcast quality stock video footage. Our stock video collection
includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, plants
(trees,
flowers, etc.) and scenics with a major emphasis of the collection
being on North America (including Alaska). Our files also contain
a tremendous
amount of footage of Africa and the Galapagos Islands. Dr. Leonard
Lee Rue III and his wife Ursula, who runs the business and is also
a wildlife
photographer and video editor, frequently travel throughout the country
and the world to enlarge their video collections.
 Dr.
Leonard Lee Rue III
Naturalist,
Wildlife Photographer, Author and Lecturer
Dr. Rue
sold his first photograph when he was nineteen years old and has since
become the most published wildlife photographer in North America. He
has over 1800 magazine covers to his credit and has taken over one million
still photographs. He has produced over two and a half million black
and white photographs and his work has been published in every major
nature magazine, and most minor ones, in the country. His photographs
are used in books and advertisements as well as for posters, puzzles,
T-shirts, clocks, cups, caps, brochures, etc.
In 1989,
Dr. Rue expanded his photographic knowledge and expertise into the
field
of videography. His stock footage library now contains over 3,000 hours
of broadcast quality Beta SP and DVCAM digital video footage and
1300 species of wildlife,
nature and scenics and is sold to companies and corporate producers
for television programs and educational and advertising purposes,
as
well as being used in his own productions. To date he has produced
twenty-four educational and instructional videos, including Basic
& Advanced Bird Photography, Rutting
Whitetails,
An Eye On Nature, The
White-tailed Deer, Birds of the Dooryard, Wolves
and How They Live and a series of The Lenape Indians.
Dr. Rue
wrote his first newspaper column when he was twenty-one and has since
written over 1300 columns for publications and writes columns for Deer & Deer
Hunting magazine, as well as a monthly online column for Vivid
Light Photography at www.vividlight.com.
As an author,
Dr. Rue has twenty-eight published volumes that have sold over four
and a half million copies and has co-authored an additional seven
books.
Repeatedly
cited by the N.J. Assoc. of Teachers of English for literary excellence,
Dr. Rue is a charter member of New Jersey's Literary Hall of Fame.
He has also received the following awards:
- The
Conservation Award by the Garden Club of New Jersey, 1973.
- The
Golden Citation for outstanding accomplishment as an author, 1979.
- The
Michael Award of New Jersey's Assoc. of Teachers of English,
for excellent writing,1987.
- The
Outdoor Writers' Assoc. of America's (OWAA) prestigious
"Excellence in Craft" award, 1987.
- The
Honorary Doctorate of Science by Colorado State University
in Fort Collins for his "dissemination of knowledge about wildlife",
1990.
- The
OWAA Jade of Chiefs Award for conservation writings, 1997.
- A charter
member of the Belvidere High School Hall of Fame, 1997.
- The
North American Nature Photographers' Association's highest
award,
"The Lifetime Achievement in Nature Photography"
award, 1998.
- The
NANPA (North American Nature Photographer's Assoc.) "Fellow"
award, 1999.
Dr. Rue's
books include The
Deer of North America, which was heralded as "a
notable achievement, a distillation in easy-to-read language of
just about everything
known about deer", How
I Photograph Wildlife & Nature, a compilation of the
skills and individual techniques developed during his many years
as
the nation's most published wildlife photographer and How
To Photograph Animals in the Wild, which he co-authored
with his son, Len Rue, Jr. Dr. Rue's latest books are Way
of the Whitetail, The
Deer Hunter's Encyclopedia, The
Deer Hunter's Illustrated Dictionary, Beavers and his most
recently published book, The Encycolpedia of Deer - Deer of the World.
Dr. Rue
writes with the authority of one who has lived with his subjects and
knows their every habit, habitat and haunt through personal research
as well as through printed material gathered during years of research.
Drawing from materials stored in bulging files—research reports
from many countries and all of the fifty states of America and clippings
gleaned throughout the years from periodicals and newspapers—and
the 17,000 plus volumes in his personal library, Dr. Rue's books and
articles are thoroughly documented studies written in a very readable
style and are well-laced with his own photographs. (Dr. Rue's books
can be purchased through the online L.L.
Rue Catalog.)
His first
lecture was given at the age of twenty-two and, over the years, he has
given more than 4,000 lectures and seminars for schools, professional
and civic groups and clubs. He has taught outdoor education classes
for years and travels all over the nation presenting wildlife travelogues,
seminars on deer and the wild turkey and, with his son Len Rue Jr.,
an all day seminar on photography.
Dr. Rue
has spent vast amounts of time studying, photographing and living with
wildlife in its natural habitats. His studies and photographic assignments
have taken him throughout the world, from the searing heat of the desert
to the iciness of the mountain peaks, to Alaska for fourteen summers
and to Africa for seven, as well as to Europe three times, Asia, the
Galapagos Islands, Australia, Antarctica and South America in addition
to his extensive work throughout the continental United States and
Canada. "It's a never-ending job.", says Rue. "The life
sounds glamorous, but there's a lot of hard work and discomfort
involved." This does not appear to deter Leonard Lee Rue III in
his pursuit of the excellent—in research, in writing, in photography.
Sometimes it means standing or sitting motionless by a mosquito-infested
waterhole, waiting for animals to come for their evening drink, and
then perhaps not getting a single photograph or frame of video footage.
Sometimes it means being pursued by the very animal he intended to
photograph.
But, whether clambering over sleeping walruses on a beach, having a
bear enter his campsite and curl up under his hammock for a nap or
being
charged by a wounded Cape Buffalo, Dr. Rue's life is filled with
the unusual. The life most of us dream about is the life he lives.
Whether
it is as author, photojournalist or foremost authority on wildlife,
it is the same man, fascinated by wildlife and intensely concerned with
interpreting its beauty, enhancing its cause and encouraging each and
every person to treat it responsibly, humanely and with an interest
in both its future and our own.
 Dr.
William D. Guthrie
Dr. William D. Guthrie
is a well-known lecturer on the Lenape Indians of New Jersey. He is
a nationally known storyteller who combines artifacts, folkways and
stories to make the past come alive. Dr. Guthrie is a university professor
who prepares school teachers and works directly with people of all ages
in various educational settings. His courses and presentations on the
Lenape at several colleges and universities continue to be popular and
his work with teachers incorporating studies of Native Americans in
their teaching and in school programs is ongoing. He has served as consultant
on the Lenape to nature centers, museums, and other cultural and educational
organizations. Together with Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, he has produced
a series of videos
on the Lenape Indians. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University,
is a full-time professor at Rider University in New Jersey, and has
published, together with Dorothy Warner, the book Knowing Good Schools.
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