by Rich Leighton | Aug 9, 2017 | Colorado, NANP, Native Orchids, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Rocky Mountains, Travel
Last month I made a quick trip down to New Mexico and Colorado for a photography business trip and as I was coming over Independence Pass to the east of Aspen, I started spotting a lot of orchids on the side of the road. Because I had a free day or traveling set aside...
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 20, 2017 | California, Mammals, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Travel
A few days ago, I was traveling through Oregon and took a little dip into Northern California to spend some time in the wetlands of the Klamath Basin. My aim was to photograph migrating waterfowl as well as check out some of the local landscapes. It was sort of a...
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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