Ineta Love Wonder – Photographer and Author
Ineta Love Wonder is an accomplished photographer and author who self-published 20 books and is currently working on her next one. You can find her captivating work in bookstores online nationally and internationally: Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Harvard Bookstore, and more. Her photographic talent extends beyond the pages of her books. Her work has been published in numerous magazines locally, nationally and internationally and online: National Geographic, Sarasota Magazine, St. Armands Circle Magazine, The New Barker Magazine. ABC7 – Sarasota news station shared several of her photos on their Facebook page. Businesses use her photos for their ad publications or on social media regularly.
Ineta’s photos are also being used for educational purposes. A photo of two Eastern Lubber grasshoppers was used in LCD slide summer rotation for 4-6 weeks in Canada, University of Alberta Herbert T. Coutts Education & Physical Education Library. Peterson Field Guide used her turtle and heron photos on their Facebook page for education. Central Park Conservancy in NYC used her photo of Groundsel Bush in Fall Bloom Guide, available online exclusively for members. A photo of Savanah cat was published in United Kingdom in children’s book, “Know Your Cats” by Jack Byard. The photo of Pearly Wood Nymph Moth has been licensed to be published in textbooks in Super Magazine by Superkids Reading Program (Rowland Reading Foundation and Zaner-Bloserin) every year.
Authors, artists and musicians use her photos as their art enhancement, on book covers and music CD covers. A photo of reflections was published by Tanya Jopson on the cover of her book, “Higher Vibrational Life Reflections.” Local musician Dovydas used 2 photos for his CD release, on the cover of album and on the cover of CD.
The biggest Ineta’s accomplishment was a showing of her photo in Times Square Billboard Premiere on June 18, 2012. According to NYC papers, only 1% of 35,000 entries were selected. Also, Ineta was a still photographer for a local short film “A Lot in Common… Shared Memories” that was selected to show in Sarasota Film Festival and Movieville International Film Festival in 2012. On October 5, 2013, her photo was projected in a group showing on the 42-story building in Long Island, NY.
Ineta has a huge passion for finding beauty and capturing extraordinary in the ordinary. Through her lens, she continues to inspire wonder and capture magic in life’s simplest moments.
Ineta wanted to become an author and illustrator since she was a little girl. When she was growing up, she saw that adult books were less and less illustrated. Since she was very visual, she felt that books were missing the important part. Being a photographer, now Ineta made her dreams a reality by creating visual books.
Her books, which are like coffee-table treasures, are filled with her stunning photography, research and education. One of her notable works, “Light Out of Darkness” is a book about healing and transformation, about surviving the impossible and finding a purpose when the world shattered locally and globally. It is a guiding light on how to keep going no matter what.
Ineta goes by her pen name that describes her more, as she loves finding wonder in everyday life. This reflects in her coffee table books, sold at:
Harvard Bookstore, and in local bookstores nationally and internationally online.
If you’d like to see some of Ineta’s published work, you can go to: “My Published Photos” set.