Photography — RoamWithPete

Harbor seal on seaweed-covered rocks, Vancouver

Vancouver, 2019

01Wander

Beginner's luck

It was just another day on the trip — the seal was lying there until a curious tourist nearby startled it awake. I grabbed the shot without thinking much of it, then submitted it on a whim — it placed as an AGORA Top 10 Finalist. I still can't explain why, I just liked the picture, and it wasn't planned — just a lucky click that turned into something more.

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2020

02Static

2020, and the old photos kept me sane

Then 2020 happened — the kind of year still strange to explain out loud. Isolation set in, and it was the old photos from past trips that got me through it, going back through them again and again. Somewhere in that routine, I started to notice the tiny details — including this curious fellow here — and it turned a quiet, difficult year into the start of a habit I never really dropped.

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Idaho, 2021

03Bathed

My obsession with cold, dark nights in the middle of nowhere

I'd tried to capture that mysterious dark sky before, but could never catch the one opportunity to take it all in — until this night in Idaho, far from anywhere, under a sky that felt endless. This shot exists because I didn't want to forget what that felt like, bathing in a universe that seemed to be falling all around me.

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2022 – 2025, RoamWithPete

04Structure

Life happens, and the eye changes with it

Between 2022 and 2025, the way I looked at things changed. I got more observant — drawn into existing and conceptual architecture, the logic behind a facade or a stairwell. My composition shifted with it too, more horizontal, closer to 16:9 film framing, and I started posting the work differently to match — a shift I'm still refining today.

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2026

05Continuing

Today, still learning what my perspective is

And today — July 30, 2026 — this is still where I am: still looking, still figuring out what my own perspective actually is. Not a neat ending, just where the story happens to be standing right now. This isn't a closed chapter. It's the one I'm still writing, one frame and one question at a time.

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