 | | Hello. My name is Ursula. I am a photographer in the West Kootenays, in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. I was born in Argentina. I grew up in both Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Valparaiso, Chile. I came to the USA on a scholarship to attend university, where I met and married Ron. Ron and I have been married for 33 years, and we have five children. I have been interested in photography since very early in life. As a little girl, I would walk around with my father's brownie camera "pretending" I was making pictures. I found my first camera in a box of discarded items. Adding babysitting money, I traded in this first camera for my first SLR, a Russian made camera that I used for quite a number of years. I then got a Pentax K1000 which I still own today. While my family was young, I mainly recorded family events and the children growing up. But with the advent of digital, I was able to start experimenting. Now I shoot RAW on a Nikon and process the images on a Mac using PSCS4. My style can loosely be classified as photo-impressionism. I print, mat, and frame my own images. |
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When I work on images, I think about the ephemeral quality of life.
All things pass, too quickly it seems, but here and there we see these
sparks of beauty that stop the flow of time and change the ordinary
into the extraordinary. These sparks of beauty are what I try to
capture with my camera. At that moment, with the mundane and common
becoming heart-achingly beautiful, I want to be pressing down the
shutter-release of my camera. I hope that in viewing my pictures you also can feel a little of the beauty all around us. |