Encinitas Teen Photographer Featured in Best Buy Commercial

If you’ve been watching television or online videos lately, you might have noticed a familiar face in Best Buy’s Gifts That Do commercial.

Thirteen-year-old Claire Jantzen of Encinitas, is shown with her mother saying that her gift of a smartphone turned her into an "Instagram sensation."

“Such a cool experience...thanks to all who made this happen!” she wrote on her photography Facebook page.

The teen has more than 24,000 followers on Instagram—a photo sharing app on smartphones that allows users to spruce camera phone pictures up with filters.

See her photography of local scenes and more on Instagram and at Claire Jantzen Photography.