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Christian Peacock is a portrait, urban, and landscape photographer. Though he captures only a second of reality in each photograph, he tells a story that extends beyond the frame. In his landscape shots of winding roads that hide the final destination, one might imagine what is just around the corner, hidden from sight. Ultimately, his photography is architectural, profound, and provocative, capturing the spirit of his subject and freezing it for the viewer’s visual delight and exploration.

The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formation near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. There are two main types of rock exposed at Alabama Hills. One is a weathered metamorphosed volcanic rock that is 150–200 million years old. The other type of rock is 82- to 85-million-year-old biotite monzogranite which weathers to potato-shaped large boulders, many of which stand on end due to spheroidal weathering acting on many nearly vertical joints in the rock. Though geographically separate from the Sierra Nevada, they are part of the same geological formation.

The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical "rugged" environment. Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and many television shows have been filmed here, including Hopalong Cassidy films, How the West Was Won, as well as The Gene Autry show, the Lone Ranger and Bonanza among others was also filmed at Alabama Hills, CA.

Though the photographer captures only a second of reality in each photograph, he tells a story that extends beyond the frame. In his landscape shots of winding roads that hide the final destination, one might imagine what is just around the corner, hidden from sight. Ultimately, Peacock’s photography is architectural, profound, and provocative, capturing the spirit of his subject and freezing it for the viewer’s visual delight and exploration.