About
Lisa Bettany is a photographer, iPhone App developer & world traveler.
Lisa Bettany is co-creator and creative producer of the top-ranked photography iPhone app, Camera+ which has sold over 6 million copies. The creation of the Camera+ App was a culmination of Bettany’s background in technology and photography. Introduced to an Apple computer at age two by her father, a University computer professor, Lisa grew up with a passion for technology and gadgets.
A former Canadian competitive figure skater, with an inspiring “never say never” personality, Lisa has motivated millions to creatively capture the moments of their lives by taking great photos. When Lisa suffered a tragic back-breaking figure skating accident nine years ago, she was forced to give up her Olympic dreams. Bed-ridden from her injury, a close friend loaned Lisa a camera as a method to heal and explore her creativity. In late 2006, she started posting her photo adventures on her blog, MostlyLisa.com.
As she recovered from her back injury, her blog began to gain notoriety for her photography, videos, and satirical technology posts. Bettany was asked to photograph events, musicians, actors and models and guest-host on a number of photography & technology podcasts & tv shows. Lisa has been featured on Global TV news, NPR’s On the Media, What’s Trending on CBS, Mostly Photo, TWiT, and Get Connected (Spike, CTV & BNN) and covered a number of Apple events for TWiT Live Specials and MacBreak.
It was at MacWorld 2008, that Bettany met the iPhone development team of tap tap tap and the masterminds behind MacHeist, the Mac bundle software sales site with a spy motif. Lisa produced the promotional videos for MH3 and starred as Sophia the evil, yet loveable Russian spy. She reprised her role in the hit iPhone game, The Heist. This relationship led to the creation of Camera+, iPhone App That Could”, which despite being kicked out of the app store for 4 months only 2 months after launch, has become the number one best-selling non-game app of 2011.
Lisa is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Journalism, and a Master’s degree in Linguistics with a research focus on early infant speech acquisition and acoustics. As a writer, Lisa has reported on technology (Business Insider), photography, and covered the 2010 Winter Olympics for The Vancouver Province. Lisa is currently writing her first iPhone photography book as she travels around the world with her iPhone.
If you’d like to contact Lisa, please use the contact form or email her at mostlylisa[at]gmail[dot]com.
