Copyrighted Photo by: E.J. Peiker

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E.J. Peiker is an amazing photographer.  You MUST visit his website!  Your breath will be taken away.  He offers photography workshops and you can purchase his stunning work.

Featured Artist - E.J. Peiker, Nature Photographer

I was born in 1960 in Augsburg, Germany in the German state of Bavaria near the Alps.  My family moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1969 right before my 9th birthday.  I became a US citizen in 1975.  I lived in Ohio until 1979 when I began attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana after not having good enough vision to enter the United States Air Force Academy with the intention of becoming a combat pilot.  At Purdue, I earned a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and also completed graduate studies in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Physics.  For the past 24 years, I have worked for the Intel Corporation in California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Arizona engaged in the production of the microprocessors, chip-sets, and communication chips that power modern Personal Computers, Workstations, File Servers, Super Computers and the Internet.  Since 1994, I have lived in the south-central Arizona city of Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix in the Sonoran Desert.  I have two sons, Nicholas (18) and Gregory (13).  I am also a professional freelance Nature Photographer and have formally studied photography at the University of New Mexico, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, and participated in photography seminars and workshops led by several renowned photographers including John Shaw, Arthur Morris, John and Barbara Gerlach, Charles Glatzer and the Nikon Corporation.