Heather Hazel Angel MSc (née Le Rougetel, born 1941) is a British nature photographer,^[1] author^[1] and television presenter.

Biography

Her father was an RAF officer. Her mother is the garden-history author Hazel le Rougetel.^[2]

She attended 14 schools in England, New Zealand, and then graduated in zoology from Bristol University, and, in 1964, married Martin Angel. She obtained her MSc in 1965.

In 1982/1983 she presented the Yorkshire Television produced, Channel 4-screened television series "Making the Most of…", which encouraged people to enjoy the British countryside.^{[citation needed]} She wrote Heather Angel's Countryside to accompany the series.

She was commissioned to photograph Charles, Prince of Wales and was a guest of the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, both in 1985.^{[citation needed]}

She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Bath (1986),^{[citation needed]} and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of Life Science at the University of Nottingham (since 1994). She was President of the Royal Photographic Society from 1984 to 1986,^{[citation needed]} and was the founder Chair of their Nature Group.^{[citation needed]} The BioCommunications Association of USA made her their 1998 Louis Schmidt Laureate.^{[citation needed]} She is a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography^{[citation needed]} and of the Royal Photographic Society;^{[citation needed]} and a vice-president of the Nature in Art Trust^[3]

Her exhibition Natural Visions toured the UK from 2000 to 2004 and was also on show in Kuala Lumpur, Cairo and Beijing.

Books

• Nature Photography: Its art and Techniques Fountain Press (1972), ISBN 978-0-85242-670-8
• Seashore life on Sandy Beaches : A fully illustrated introduction to some of their animal and plant inhabitants. Text and photographs by Heather Angel, Jarrold and Sons, (1975), ISBN 0-85306-587-X
• Monsters of the deep : sharks, giant squid, whales and dolphins, (Longmeadow Press), (1976), ISBN 0-7064-0541-2
• Life in the oceans : the spectacular world of whales, dolphins, giant squids, sharks and other unusual sea creatures, (London), (1976), ISBN 0-7064-0541-2
• British wild orchids, Jarrold and Sons, (1977), ISBN 0-85306-713-9
• The natural history of Britain and Ireland, (London), (1981), ISBN 0-7181-1989-4
• The water naturalist, New York, (1982), ISBN 0-87196-642-5
• Heather Angel's Countryside Michael Joseph, (1983). ISBN 0-7181-2284-4
• The book of close-up photography : text and photographs,Knopf, (1983), ISBN 0-394-53232-5
• A camera in the garden, Quiller, (1984), ISBN 0-907621-34-1
• Landscape photography, Oxford Illustrated Press, (1989), ISBN 0-946609-65-9
• A world of plants : treasures from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, (Little, Brown), (1993), ISBN 978-0-8212-2040-5
• Photographing the natural world, New York, (1994), ISBN 0-8069-0714-2
• Pandas, Voyageur Press, (1998), ISBN 978-0-89658-364-1
• How to photograph flowers, (Mechanicsburg, PA), (1998), ISBN 0-8117-2455-7
• How to Photograph Water, (Mechanicsburg, PA), (1999), ISBN 0-8117-2461-1
• Exploring Natural China, Evans Mitchell Books (2010) ISBN 978-1-901268-41-6^[1]
• Pollination Power, University of Chicago Press (2016) ISBN 978-0-226366-91-3^[4]

Illustration

Additionally, her pictures are all or a significant proportion of those in:

• The Natural History of Britain and Ireland Michael Joseph, (1981). ISBN 1-85052-064-X

Papers

• ''Distribution pattern analysis in a marine benthic community. Helgolander wiss. Meeresuntes, 15, pp 445–454 (written with Martin Angel, based on her MSc thesis)