Angela was born into a trigger-happy family. Dad shot anything that moved with a sure eye and a Super 8 video camera. Mom bagged her shots with an SLR that was German-made and built like a tank. Not much escaped the crosshairs of their viewfinders and so much of Angela’s early family life was captured on film.
Her eldest sibling always showed a keen interest in visual art and soon capitulated to the love of photography that was hard-coded in her DNA. After the eldest succumbed, it was inevitable that Angela and the remaining siblings would follow suit. Each in their own time picked up a camera and commenced their journey into the world of photography.
Angela was gifted a Konica Autoreflex T3 when she was 22 and began her photo quest in earnest. Nature was the preferred subject matter then, and living on Vancouver Island provided plenty of opportunity to indulge herself.
Some of Angela’s favourite genres of photography today include black & whites from the 40’s and 50’s, Victorian postmortem, macro, and underwater. Angela, shooting with both film and digital cameras, is generally eclectic about her subject matter, although she shows a strong preference to the crumbling, old buildings that she encounters in her travels. Her return to dancing in 2009 has meant less time behind the lens, but she always carries a point-and-shoot in her purse just in case.