"Seeing the World, Through the Eyes of My Lens"

I am a photographer from Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I have always been passionate about photography and have been taking pictures since I was a teenager. It’s a hobby that has brought me tremendous joy over the years, especially when I’m able to share my images with family and friends. I love adding descriptive details to my photos and telling stories through the moments I capture.

I’m especially drawn to travel photography, and some of my favourite subjects include landscapes, seascapes, waterscapes, boats, old cars, flowers, macro work, and sunsets. I also truly enjoy photographing the many beautiful places we’re fortunate to have right here in Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

I’m really enjoying my time on Flickr and have been a member since June 2011, originally just to view a friend’s photostream. It wasn’t until April 2014 that I bought my first DSLR and began posting photos to my own photostream. Flickr continues to amaze me — there is so much talent from photographers around the world, both amateur and professional, and their work inspires me every day.

So, thank you to all my Flickr friends who drop by to visit my photostream, and thank you for your continued support, comments, faves, compliments, and feedback. They are all truly appreciated. I also want to thank those who have sent kind words and encouragement — they have meant more than you will ever know.

With Kindest Regards,

♥ Sonja Peterson

They say a picture is worth a thousand words — but I often wonder, what else do they say?

To find out, I’ve gathered some of the most inspiring quotes about photography. I hope they speak to you as deeply as they’ve spoken to me. ♥

“No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.”

― Katja Michael

"A good photographer must love life more than he does photography."

—Joel Strasser

"You don't TAKE a photograph, you ask, quietly, to BORROW it."

—Unknown

"It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see."

—Henry David Thoreau

"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow."

—Imogen Cunningham

"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, and the people you have loved."

—Ansel Adams

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

— Elliott Erwitt

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”

— Don McCullin

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

— Aaron Siskind

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”

— Scott Lorenzo

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

— Eve Arnold

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

— Diane Arbus

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”

— Elliott Erwitt

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”

— Irving Penn

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”

— Matt Hardy

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

— Unknown

“Only photograph what you love.”

— Tim Walker

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph"

— Alfred Stieglitz

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear"

—Alfred Eisenstaedt

"My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport"

—Steve McCurry

“Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life looks much richer from behind the lens.”

― Donna Kasubeck

♥

If you like my images, you can follow me on:

ArtistWebsites:

www.peterson-photography.artistwebsites.com

FineArt America:

fineartamerica.com/profiles/peterson-photography

Pinterest:

www.pinterest.ca/speterson58/peterson-phtography

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/sonjapetersonphotography