by Rich Leighton | Apr 29, 2016 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Washington, Wildflowers
One of my very favorite groups of wildflowers to find in the wild belong to the lily family: Liliaceae. These include tiger lillies, camas, trilliums, and mariposas. A few days ago while hunting wild orchids on Fidalgo Island near Anacortes, Washington I found my very...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 29, 2016 | Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Today’s set of images are what I hope to be a very enjoyable and relaxing series of eight images from a recent hike high up in Washington’s Snoqualmie Pass. I was following a beautiful snow-covered mountain stream called Humpback Creek on the Annette Lake...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 28, 2016 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Panorama, Photography, Utah, Washington
While definitely not a new technology, panoramic photography has been with us since the mid-nineteenth century. What is new however, is the ability to digitally stitch multiple images together to create a much larger, super-wide image that exceeds the abilities of a...
by Rich Leighton | Dec 16, 2015 | Ancient America, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
“Sol Duc Falls” is my fifth entry into my new series, Ancient America which features a minimalistic, raw and unpolished look at black and white landscape photography from around North America from the viewpoint of what it would have looked like before...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 18, 2015 | Fish, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography
A quick post because I’m supposed to be taking a vacation, and you know how it is with us workaholics, so I sort of cheated. Top photo and bottom video were shot with my phone, and only the male coho was shot with my work camera. Last week I was hiking along the...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2015 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel
Post #200! Many thanks for all of you who have hung around this long with me through the years! Today I’m still uploading images that have been in cue for editing and uploading to my nature photography website and these just happen to be from places not too far...
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