Emotional Landscapes: Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Pen Densham Reinvents Nature Photography
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Emotional Landscapes: Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Pen Densham Reinvents Nature Photography
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
🎙️ Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pen Densham is now reinventing photography — and what it means to create at any age. Listen here: https://notold-better.com
🌿 Pen Densham blends storytelling with impressionist nature photography — and reminds us that it's never too late to create. Listen now: https://notold-better.com
🎬 At 4 years old, Pen Densham rode an alligator in a short film. At 75, he's reinventing what it means to be a storyteller — not with film, but through impressionist nature photography. https://pendenshamphotography.com/
Pen is best known for producing Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone. But today, he's capturing landscapes like never before — using long exposures, movement, and emotion to turn still images into what he calls "visual music."
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Pen opens up about the courage it takes to create after success, after loss, and after 50. From letting go of perfection to embracing creative freedom, he offers an inspiring look at what's possible when we stop asking for permission.
This is a must-listen for professionals, artists, and anyone redefining their next chapter. Creativity isn't bound by age — and Pen Densham proves it. https://pendenshamphotography.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. |
| 0:08.9 | This show for all of us who aren't old, we're better. |
| 0:11.8 | Each week, we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, |
| 0:18.1 | all related to this wonderful experience of getting better, not just older. |
| 0:23.4 | Now, here's your host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang. |
| 0:30.2 | Thank you, and I'm Paul Vogelzang, and welcome to the show. |
| 0:33.8 | Today's episode is brought to you by longevity, mitochondrure Gummies, the first ever longevity gummies, |
| 0:40.5 | powered by Mitopure, |
| 0:42.1 | a delicious, easy way to put more energy into your day. |
| 0:47.7 | Today's guest is a legendary storyteller. |
| 0:52.4 | I think you're just going to love this episode. He has done Outer Limits, |
| 0:57.7 | The Twilight Zone, just a storyteller par excellence through and through. You know him, of course, |
| 1:03.5 | as the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, but he's also done |
| 1:09.8 | backdrop. As I say, The Outer Limits, |
| 1:12.0 | the Twilight Zone, so much more that we're going to talk about today. But what you may not know |
| 1:17.2 | is that Pendentium's journey, with the camera, began when he was just four years old, appearing |
| 1:23.9 | in one of his father's short films riding an alligator, no less, while the film |
| 1:30.4 | played alongside the African queen in theaters. That moment lit a spark that's never gone out. |
| 1:38.5 | Now decades later, Pendensium is returning to the lens, not as a filmmaker this time, but as a photographic artist. |
| 1:46.7 | His latest work is a stunning reinvention, impressionist nature photography that just |
| 1:53.7 | shimmers. |
| 1:54.9 | We're going to have links so that you can see this and we'll be talking about it, but it is amazing. |
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