by Rich Leighton | Jun 14, 2017 | American Southwest, Arizona, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is famed for its sudden explosion of colorful wildflowers that follows the first springtime rains. From a distance, I saw bright splashes of pink from across the arid hills, and as I got closer, I found this Parry’s...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 8, 2017 | Florida, NANP, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
At first light, there is nothing quite as beautiful as wildflowers backlit from the rising sun. These highly-colorful showy evening primroses were no exception! ~ click on any image to enlarge ~ Showy Evening Primroses Also known as pinkladies, pink evening primrose...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 2, 2017 | Arachnids, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest
Ok, ok…. I’ve learned my lesson from a previous spider post: Don’t use a spider in the thumbnail image that gets posted to social media. I really freaked a lot of you out. That said, I’ve got a really cool post about a very cool little invasive...
by Rich Leighton | May 31, 2017 | Birds, California, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
I’m adding this set of photos a few months after I made them in California because I just wasn’t positively sure what exactly species I was looking at until a very experienced birder friend of mine on Facebook pointed out all the reasons that this is a...
by Rich Leighton | May 30, 2017 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Washington, Wildflowers
One of the absolute best times to visit the wild rolling hills and steep ravines and coulees of Washington’s Columbia Basin is in the late spring. Last week I was traveling around the Vantage, WA are, just east of the mighty Columbia River near Whiskey Dick...
by Rich Leighton | May 28, 2017 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington, Wildflowers
Besides wild orchids, wild lilies are a favorite of mine when tromping across the country in extremely rural to even semi-urban places. Recently I was in the Olympic National Forest near the shore of Lake Cushman near Hoodsport, WA scoping out new areas to photograph...
Recent Comments