Fritz Olenberger was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1949. He became interested in photography in high school,
using Leica cameras his father gave him. Over the past 40 years he has been enjoying photography as a hobby. His skills are self-taught.
His images have appeared on the covers of Magellan’s Travel Catalog, and he has exhibited his travel images in one-man shows at Samy's Camera and the Santa Barbara Public Library.
His images of Alaska, England, Spain, Greece, Canada, Ireland, Israel, and the US have been selected for Google Earth and collectively have had over 800,000 hits.
Fritz is a regular contributor to the on-line Santa Barbara newspaper "Noozhawk."