Featured Artists > Johnathan Esper (7)
My passion in life is to explore and photograph our world's wilderness areas. I love adventuring in wilderness landscapes, combining my love for photography, traveling, adventure, the mountains, and seldom-visited places with my desire to remember and share the unique sights I see with others, hoping to create appreciation and respect for these wilderness areas. Photography also helps me to slow down in my wanderings and notice the details and wonder at the beauty that nature exhibits every day, all over the world, whether anyone is there to witness it or not. I specialize in panoramic wilderness landscapes and wilderness adventure photography.
A main goal in my photography is to make the viewer of the photograph feel like they are really in the scene, and not just looking at a photograph, and I feel the very large panoramic format, along with a minimalist mounting method which emphasizes and bolds the photo and does not distract the eye with a fancy frame, helps to achieve this feel. I believe that if a viewer feels they are part of the scene, they will connect with it, and the wilderness landscape it depicts, better. And if someone connects with a landscape, that person is more likely to value it, which then leads a person to want to preserve and/or personally enjoy it. While much of the photographer community strives to achieve simplicity in their compositions in order to create more impactful imagery, I have evolved my style to include as opposed to exclude. This style, I hope, adds to the realism feel of my images, as well as differentiates my work and style in a crowded photographer community and over-photographed world.
