Meet the ladies who started it all!

As owner of Trina Koster Photography,  Trina loves teaching photography to people of all ages and gets great joy from seeing people connect with their creativity. She’s very excited to be part of a program that uses photography to nurture connections to creativity and to the natural world.

After serving for 6 years on the FON Board, Trina’s term was up but she continues to support Focus on Nature in endless ways!

As a social worker with a background in community development, Shirley loves working on collaborative community projects, particularly if they create opportunities for people from all walks of life to engage in arts education or nature experiences.  She’s always appreciated how photography inspires a new way of seeing, helping people to slow down and focus on the beauty of things they might normally pass by. Understanding this power of photography to motivate people to get outside and rediscover nature inspired her to create Focus on Nature with Trina in 2008. Today Shirley is board chair of Up and Running, an activity program for women in Guelph that she co-founded..