Fine Art Photographer Jon Glaser

Using his unique vision, Delray Beach-based photographer Jon Glaser creates compelling fine art landscape photography. Glaser is a former dentist turned fine art photographer. Drawn towards the grand landscape, he creates images that showcase both the beauty of nature, and the relationship between color and light. “I had no idea how much of a ‘tonic’ picture-taking and picture-making would become,” explains Glaser. “While in dentistry, I was creating with my hands; with photography I am creating with my mind. The art opened up a whole new world for me, a world in which I see so many amazing things that I can share with others.”

Largely self-taught, Glaser studied with noted photographers Jack Wild, Lee Gordon and Vincent Versace. Working alongside these master photographers Glaser’s passion for photography was fueled, helping him reach new heights. He began to “eat and breathe” the art, and found his own style. He has traveled extensively to photography workshops capturing nature at its finest. His landscape images show an artist’s eye working in perfect harmony with a technician’s skill. 

Over the years Glaser has accumulated an extensive collection of landscape photographs from National Parks and other regions located in the United States and Canada. Fine art photographs are available in color and black & white prints of varying sizes and finishes. His work is displayed at GAB Studio in the Wynwood Arts District and he currently has work hanging at the Boca Raton Museum of Art 2014 Biennial Exhibition through October. He has been featured in a variety of publications and magazines, and has received numerous awards from photography competitions and contests.

“I ‘broke out’ of my initial way of thinking about how an image is created. There is no mere ‘snap and crop’, there is much more involved in the art of photography than that,” said Glaser. “When I embarked on my photographic career, I struggled to create images of what I saw in nature. It was surprising to learn that the human eye can see 24 shades of light, while the camera is limited to 12.” Glaser found a two-step solution to this challenge: 1) Using a split neutral density filter; and 2) Enhancing his images through Photoshop, to provide proper exposure by lightening the foreground areas that are too dark or darkening the areas of the sky that were too bright.

Glaser incorporates dramatic weather and foreground interest. Perspective and the play of shadow and light are his primary concerns when composing an image. Many of the photographs in his body of work capture a sense of movement that invites the viewer to be present in the place where the shutter release was clicked, as if to be standing alongside the landscape photographer in that moment. From National Parks that included Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier in the U.S. and Banff in Canada to the Smokey Mountains, Death Valley, the coastlines of Maine and Oregon, and Iceland, the greenest of lands, all of Glaser’s travels have been devoted to honing his craft.