Calgary photographer Lori Andrews mixes Wonder Woman into Alberta landscapes

Calgary photographer and model Lori Andrews isn't a fan girl or anything.

It's just that ever since she was a little kid, she found strength in a certain superhero, so she decided to keep the connectiongoing into her middle years.

That's partly the reason why Andrews started posting a series of Instagram photos of herself dressed as Wonder Woman against a backdrop of a variety of Alberta landscapes, she told Calgary Eyeopener host David Gray in a Thursday interview.

"I feel really lucky that when I was9, 10 years old, that show was on," she said. "I just assumed that women were superheroes."

"I just knew that everything was possible to me and I could be, you know, leggy, beautiful and a superhero at the same time. No one could take advantage of me. It was amazingly empowering at nine. And it still is today."

Turning 40

What's perhaps different is that Andrews didn't grow out of her childhood fascination with Wonder Woman.

In fact, quite the opposite when she turned 40, she had a Wonder Woman costume made for herself.

"Fortyis a pretty big birthday," Andrews said. "And I'm a woman. And what happens to women when we turn 40? Well we disappear in the public. Whereas I feel like I'm just getting started."

Meeting Lynda

Wednesday night, Andrews got to meet Lynda Carter, the first Wonder Woman of her childhood, who was in town to perform her one person show at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.

"I got really, really excited," Andrews said. "And even though I'm not a fan girl, it's like [that night], I'm actually going to see her in the flesh.

"Of course, she was 22or 23 when she was doing that series and now she's in her sixties," she added,"but she's a musician now. She's a mom of two grown adults. She's an amazing woman."

Finally, does donning a Wonder Woman outfit bestow any extra sense of power on Andrews?

"I'm also a model."she said, "so I know how to separate myself from from my image."

"It's a pretty skimpy outfit. And mine is not professionally made by any means it's by my mother-in-law.

"Sometimes it pushes up where it should pull down," she added,"and vice versa. ButI just own it while I'm doing it."

With files from the Calgary Eyeopener