by Rich Leighton | Mar 18, 2015 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Lately I’ve been shooting more new images faster than I can edit & caption them, so over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be finally getting new images of the wildlife of the Pacific Northwest ready and sharing a bunch of them as fast as I can upload....
by Rich Leighton | Feb 3, 2015 | Birds, Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest, Washington
I recently took off for a few days out in the wide, wild wilderness between the Cascade Mountains and Rocky Mountains…. here’s a sample of what I brought home. Click any image to enlarge. Silent Forest in Winter A gorgeous winter day on Mount Spokane in...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 5, 2015 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Travel, Washington
On a recent trip in northwestern Idaho I made a stop at Plummer Creek near Chatcolet Lake. What amazing skies as an autumn storm rolled in! Plummer Creek Wonderfully strange lighting and weather on Plummer Creek as it flows toward Chatcolet Lake in northwestern Idaho...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 22, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Yesterday I went for a short hike around one of my regular stopping places in the Cascade Mountains at Gold Creek Pond at the very top of Snoqualmie Pass, just east of Seattle. Toward the top of the pass, it just started snowing, and there was a couple of inches of...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 11, 2014 | Featured, Herps, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Reptiles, Washington
Last week I was doing a swing through Central Washington and I finally saw, caught and released my first West Coast rattlesnake. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long already. Oddly enough I had my main portrait lens on my camera when I spotted it, and...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 13, 2014 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
A springtime favorite, this trio of western trilliums (Trillium ovatum) was found just yesterday growing next to Lewis Creek in Bellevue, Washington – just south of Cougar Mountain. Like many wildflowers and forbs of moist, damp forests in the Pacific Northwest,...
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