by Rich Leighton | Sep 6, 2018 | American Southwest, Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, New Mexico
Only a handful of gypsum dunefields exist and New Mexico’s White Sands dunefield is by far the world’s largest, covering 275 square miles. MORE PHOTOS OF DESERTS MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora, fauna and places...
by Rich Leighton | May 4, 2018 | American Southwest, Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Texas
Big Bend National Park is located at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert. The Chihuahuan desert is the wettest of the four North American deserts, though it rarely receives more than 10 inches of rainfall. The rainy season in the desert is usually from mid-July...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 18, 2017 | Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel
Last night I was wrapping up a quick four-day nature photography road trip in search of new images and ideas when I found myself standing behind North Falls – an insanely beautiful and violent waterfall just gushing with snowmelt just east of Salem, Oregon....
by Rich Leighton | Mar 2, 2017 | Alberta, Canada, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
There is nothing as beautiful as the mist rising like wildfire smoke over a river on a very chilly Canadian Rocky Mountain winter sunrise This morning was no different than any other on the slippery edge of the hoarfrost-crusted Bow River just west of Calgary,...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 1, 2017 | British Columbia, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Trees
Recently I was in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia in the middle of winter, powering my 4×4 SUV through ice and snow, climbing higher and higher into the sky along the Illecillewaet River aiming to head over Rogers Pass so I could make my...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 9, 2017 | Alberta, Canada, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Travel
So far as I continue to edit and prepare my landscape images from my recent trip to Banff National Park where I attended the HIGHLY recommended International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit last month, this image on Mount Rundle is my favorite so far. ~...
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