I've always been a wanderer. Growing up in Europe, I spent most of my childhood on a bicycle — exploring every street, every neighborhood, every corner I could reach. When I moved to the United States at 19, that same restlessness followed me. In the twenty years since, I've lived in five states, visited 48 of the 50, and made my way through Norway, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, Canada, Mexico, and Fiji. Movement has always been how I make sense of the world.

But it was a personal crisis — going through a divorce — that turned a lifelong love of travel into something more. I picked up a camera and drove west. California opened up in front of me and something shifted. The redwood forests of Humboldt County. The waterfalls cascading down the slopes of Mount Shasta. The fog rolling in off the Pacific coast. For the first time, I wasn't just passing through these places. I was seeing them.

60x40 Print of "Icy Dream" before delivery to a collector

Photography became my therapy. The act of slowing down, finding the right light, waiting for a moment — it was grounding in a way that nothing else was. What started as a way to heal became a calling.

The Camera, The Craft

I shoot with a Canon EOS R5 — a mirrorless body that I switched to after years with the Canon 5D Mark III. The R5 gives me the resolution and dynamic range I need to produce large format prints that hold their detail at sizes up to 40x120 inches without losing a thing. For a landscape photographer who shoots panoramas, image quality at extreme sizes isn't optional — it's everything.

Every photograph goes through meticulous post-processing before it's ever considered for print. Getting the color, contrast, and tonal range right on screen is only the beginning. The final test is always the print itself.

The Print — Why TruLife Acrylic Mounting

I chose TruLife acrylic-mounted printing because it is simply the finest way to display a photograph. Your image is printed on archival photographic paper and face-mounted behind a sheet of TruLife optical acrylic — a museum-grade material that delivers extraordinary depth, color richness, and a luminous quality that makes the image appear to glow from within.

This is the same print surface used in the world's finest fine art photography galleries. It protects the photograph beneath while adding a visual quality that no canvas or standard print can replicate. Every print I produce is a signed limited edition, typically 50 pieces per image, and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity confirming the edition number and my signature. When you hang one of my prints on your wall, you are hanging a piece of original fine art — not a reproduction.

For collectors who want to see the prints in person before purchasing, I have galleries in Las Vegas, Nevada and Newbury Park, California. Contact me to arrange a private viewing.

Eddie Jongas - holding a print of "Great Divide"

The Locations

It's difficult to pick favorites — every place I've photographed has given me something different. But a few locations keep pulling me back.

The Pacific Northwest is where my heart is. The way the light moves through those forests, the way fog sits on the mountains in the early morning — there's a quality of light there that I haven't found anywhere else. One day I hope to move there and spend years exploring everything it has to offer.

California is home. Mount Shasta and the waterfall country surrounding it. The ancient redwoods of Humboldt County — trees that were standing long before any of us arrived and will be standing long after we're gone. The Pacific Coast Highway from Big Sur to Morro Bay, where the land meets the ocean in a way that never gets old no matter how many times you've seen it.

Beyond the West Coast, I've photographed across the American Southwest — the canyon country of Arizona, the rolling wheat hills of the Palouse in Washington, the alpine scenery of Colorado. I've brought my camera through the streets of Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. And further afield — Venice's canals, the fjords of Norway, the coastal towns of Italy, the historic streets of Vilnius.

Every location ends up on my walls eventually.

Why I Do This

People often tell me that looking at my prints makes them feel like they are actually standing in that place. That means everything to me — but it's not quite the destination I'm aiming for.

My goal has never been to replace an experience. No photograph — no matter how large, how sharp, how beautifully printed — can replicate what it feels like to stand at the edge of a canyon at sunrise, or walk into a redwood grove for the first time, or watch the sun drop into the Pacific while the sky turns every shade of orange and red. Nothing can replace that.

What I hope my prints do is inspire you to go. To pack a bag, get in the car, and make the trip. To take your kids or your friends or your partner to the places that made me stop and set up a tripod. To build memories together in the places that matter. A photograph on your wall should be a reminder that the world is extraordinary and worth exploring — not a substitute for going out and seeing it yourself.

I became a photographer during one of the hardest periods of my life. Travel and photography helped me find my footing again. If my work inspires even one person to get out and explore — and to share that experience with someone they love — then I've done what I set out to do.

My daughter is thirteen now. She's watching everything I do. That's the most important audience I have.

"Tree Of Life" - peter lik tree

Browse the Collection

Explore Eddie Jongas's TruLife acrylic-mounted fine art photography prints — landscape, seascape, city, abstract, and nature photography available as limited edition wall art, shipped free to all 50 states.

Eddie Jongas is a self-taught fine art landscape photographer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a gallery in Newbury Park, California. He shoots with a Canon EOS R5 and produces limited edition TruLife acrylic-mounted prints available exclusively through jongasfineartphotography.com.