About Lou Buscher

Born in 1931 in Brooklyn New York, which at that time was home to three, Major League Baseball teams. The N.Y. Yankees, The N.Y. Giants and The Brooklyn Dodgers. I was always a Dodger fan and was disappointed when they left for California.

I gathered scrap metal for the 2^nd. World war and than served in Korea with the 40^th. Infantry Division in the early fifties. Even at that time I had made it my business to take photographs for my family back home. With my Moms prayers and the grace of God I arrived home in one piece.

One of the first things I had done before I came home was to buy my first 35mm camera in a P.X. It was an Argus C3. I still to this day have Kodak Chrome slides that produce beautiful prints that came from that camera.

The camera was stolen out of my 1952 Packard and it was replaced with one of the first Japanese cameras to hit New York City. Sorry I can’t remember it’s name but it was a fixed lens of 50mm.

I continued in and out of photography while my wife and I raised our family. As the kids grew up and were more on their own I built my first dark room in the basement of our new home in the Catskill mountains which I had built myself in 1971.

Living in the mountains got me really going with wildlife photography. Unfortunately it was in those years that our Bald Eagle was suffering from extinction and seeing one just didn’t happen.

Due to the perseverance of our NYSDEC Endangered Species Unit and Mr. Peter Nye over a ten year period we are starting to get them back.

So today at an age of 77 and a retired nest monitor for the DEC I now have the luxury of showing you this great bird through the age of digital photography and a modern computer. I have now been at it for about 59 years and I love every minute of it.

Lou Buscher

Now in 2003 with Bill Streeter of the Delaware Valley Raptor Center. We are about to release a young male bald eagle back into the wild after a successful rehab by Bill and crew at the center.

Now up to 2005 at the fourth annual eagle fest with Pete Nye the leader of our Endangered Species Unit here in New York.