God's County Photo About

is fine art nature photography by Chuck Peacock.
Specializing in landscapes and wildlife of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions USA.

All images on this site © Chuck Peacock/God's Country Photography.
Any editorial or commercial use of these images is not authorized without written agreement.
Please read on for more specific information about the images.

This site is an online gallery featuring a sample of the best photos of God's Country Photography.
The gallery is arranged for quick download by subject area.
I invite you to browse through some beautiful country. New images are added periodically.

If you're a photo-buyer or just a lover of nature photography or nature in general I'm positive you wont be disappointed.

All the images on this site are offered for sale as Epson 2200 or 9600 prints, and as digital image files including .tif, .jpg and other formats. As of yet, none of the images are limited editions so prints are modestly priced.

The Prints:
We make digital prints from the Epson 2200 Stylus Photo Printer. The prints from this machine are incredible and you will not be able to tell the difference from a traditional photographic print. Prints last over 70 years in ambient room light under glass (based on Wilhelm Institute research). The Luster finish is a beautiful semi-gloss, lightly textured surface. Prints 16x24 and larger are printed on the big brother to the 2200 ...the Epson 9600 (West Coast Imaging). Other surface finishes are available on request.

Equipment:
The images in the galleries were made using primarily Canon equipment - 35 mm film (negs and slides), 6.3 MP 10D, and now the 8.2 MP 30D.

Lenses:
Lenses are the most important aspect of any photography. Lenses I've used - Canon 35-105, Canon 24-85 (semi-pro grade), Canon 75-300 Image Stabilizer, and most recently I've been using a Sigma 100-300 EX series (Professional grade) lens . I also use a Sigma 1.4x TC, a Tamron 2x TC, and Kenko extension tubes. Of course I have plenty of other "stuff" - tripods, etc., but I don't want to bore you with all that.

Note on digital manipulation:
This is hot topic these days and for good reason. There are obviously many discussions on this subject so I won't get into all of that here. But I do want to express that truth is a fundamental concept in my photography.
Point 1) The characteristics of film and digital sensors along with the art of selectively composing an image do not lend themselves to exact representations of the real world, But I try to make it as close as possible. There really is no
exact interpretation of the real world in a photograph.
Point 2) Striving for the truth and conveying reality as close as possible is my intention, albeit subjective due to the previous point. I like to take a photograph to share the beauty of what I saw, not what I imagined.
Point 3) Imagination and artistic license and their expression are also very valuable as long as they are clearly labeled/conveyed as such.
I do very little digital manipulation on my images beyond the standard contrast, brightness, and color balance that happens every time you make a print from a slide or a negative.
Note: I do make composites of the same scene to expand the dynamic range (I expose for the foreground in one image and expose for the sky in the next a few seconds later then combine them). This actually makes the final image more like we see with our human eye as film and digital sensors have a much narrower dynamic range than our eyes. But don't worry, you wont be finding African elephants against an Arizona sunset here.
So, in a nutshell, you don't have to worry that any of my images are a product of my imagination/ not real. They are very close to what I saw originally. I want to share with people the true magnificence of nature without any help from me. God's the original artist, I'm just recording it.

Also, any image that is made with a captive animal or in a garden situation is clearly labeled as such .

Thank you for having the interest and taking the time to read this information. Please see my page on personal notes about myself.

Best in Show at Copper Valley Camera Club Annual Photography Show, Arizona 2000
Best in Show at Gila County Fair, Arizona 2000, 2001
Reserve Grand Champion, Moffat County Fair, Colorado 2003
Grand Champion and Reserve Champion, Moffat County Fair, Colorado 2004
Grand Champion, Moffat County Fair, Colorado 2005

Exhibitor - Colorado State Capitol Display (Colorado (Rocky Mountain) Nature Photographers), March 2005
Grand Champion, Moffat County Fair, Colorado 2005
Exhibitor - Colorado State Capitol Display (Colorado (Rocky Mountain) Nature Photographers), February 2006