by Rich Leighton | May 26, 2017 | NANP, Photography
When you think of the Pacific Northwest, you usually think of lush coniferous forests, snow-capped mountains all throughout the year and never-ending rain. But did you know that as close as a one hour drive to the Canadian border, there are wild and endemic native...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2017 | Birds, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Quick post for today. I’ve been sitting on this photo of a trio of black-necked stilts for a while because I saw something in it, but it just didn’t look right. Then I had one of those “a-ha!” moments and cropped it from a horizontal...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 21, 2017 | American Southwest, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Utah, Wildflowers
As is often the case in wildflowers, telling one species from another can be exceedingly difficult. Especially when there are naturally occurring hybrids, same species with wildly variable physical attributes and just geographically separated populations of the same...
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...
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