by Rich Leighton | Feb 22, 2022 | California, Landscape, Natural History, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest
On a trip to Southern Oregon and the Oregon Coast to photograph wild Pacific landscapes and a profusion of wild lilies and native bog orchids further inland, I ended up by accident in Medford, OR where I got this unexpected fantastic view of Mount Shasta from the top...
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 | Jan 6, 2017 | Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Reptiles, Travel
Unusual but not unheard of, this northwestern garter snake (Thamnophis ordinoides) was unexpectedly found actively hunting in the grass near the beach on a rare February sunny day on the Oregon Coast in Oswald West State Park. One of the smallest of garter snakes in...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 9, 2016 | Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Travel
Timing is everything! This is just a quick post showing just how fast the sky can change in 14 minutes! I was at Cannon Beach in Oregon photographing one of the world’s biggest sea stacks on the most amazing coastline in the world at the perfect moment of low...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 9, 2016 | Butterflies, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon
Recently I was checking out some places in Central Oregon the Bend area and while having a chat with some random fellow hikers who in a truly wild coincidence had lived around the corner from me in Fort Myers, Florida, this beautiful little stella orangetip butterfly...
by Rich Leighton | May 16, 2016 | Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel
After a mad flurry of family, graduation and corporate portrait jobs, I’m back at my desk editing my recent wildlife and nature images I shot during one of my “office escapes.” This was one shot of Mount Jefferson I thought I’d missed because...
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