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Joanie Piluke
If someone asks Joanie if she does photography, her answer is, "sometimes." Managing the Norman Piluke Gallery is her main priority. For years, Joanie devoted her time assisting her husband Norman in the creation and exhibition of his best selling Photographic Art. The experience from the photographic trips and the use of different equipment including the large format view cameras helped her a lot.
Learning the Basics of Photography at Seneca College and living in the world of Photography with Norman Piluke has been an easier transition to be a photographer. Also having a natural artistic touch, she diverts her art through the lens whenever she gets a chance. When she became confident, she acquired her first medium format, a Mamiya RZ and has thoroughly enjoyed the use of film and darkroom work. Like Norman, she now uses a digital camera. Her photography, are also exhibited along with Norman's work in all the exhibitions.
Joanie says, "I always loved nature growing up on the hills of Baguio City, Philippines, that is why I completely enjoy photographing the outdoors of Northern Ontario. The pleasant smell of the woods, wild flowers and the pine trees always take me back home when I was a kid."
Whether photographing nature or traveling to beautiful historic places in Europe, every aspect of our photographic adventure, to printing the images and finally exhibiting are truly the greatest achievement of this exciting endeavor."
She is also an avid birdwatcher and has been birdwatching since 1989. It started as a her passion and she enjoyed spotting the birds while Norman photographed them. Today you will find her photographing side by side with Norman.
Joanie Piluke was born and educated in Baguio City, Philippines and immigrated in Canada in the early 80s.
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