Photographer Evon Stone's Chicago childhood was forever brightened when she received her first primitive box camera as a gift. Since that tenth birthday she has taken award-winning pictures in all the cities where she's lived: Phoenix, Honolulu, Anchorage and Seattle. Evon comes from a long line of photographers starting with her great-grandfather who was an architectural photographer in Chicago in the late 1800's. Her grandmother was the family historian and passed on photo advice and photos (even tin types) from her father. Evon studied with Jerry Uelsman (a protégé of Ansel Adams) at the Winter Park Art School in Florida. It was in Seattle that her love of photography brought her to the Emerald City's Museum of History and Industry where she worked in the Photo department as an archivist and printer of antique glass plate negatives from the Webster & Stevens collection of commercial photos ranging from 1900 to the 1960's. Currently, Evon divides her time between her home on Oxnard's Silver Strand and her position as a computer software expert in the health care field. Evon is married to a novelist and former television executive and she looks forward to capturing the vivid beauty of Ventura County life on film.

In addition to my artwork, I am an ambassador for Nourish the Children, doing more than feeding starving children. The mission of the Nourish the Children initiative is to be a powerful force in saving children's lives. Now over 100 million meals have been donated by our caring associates and company matches. Internationally recognized as an innovative approach to supporting those in need, Nourish the Children makes it simple to purchase and donate highly nutritious VitaMeal to charity partners like Feed the Children who distribute the food to the world's needy children. Go to www.maxcast.com/nourishthechildren To find out how you can get involved e-mail me at evonstoneimages@yahoo.com or go to www.estone.my-ntc.com