by Rich Leighton | Feb 9, 2017 | Alberta, Canada, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Travel
So far as I continue to edit and prepare my landscape images from my recent trip to Banff National Park where I attended the HIGHLY recommended International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit last month, this image on Mount Rundle is my favorite so far. ~...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 8, 2017 | Alberta, Canada, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Travel
If you ever feel the urge to stand between two incredible major North American mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies in the most beautiful light in the middle of winter, this is the best spot: Moose Meadows in Banff National Park. This valley of the Bow River is...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 9, 2017 | American Southwest, Mammals, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Utah
I was hiking through the hills in Southern Utah in April when in the early evening I came upon a large band of about thirty individual desert bighorn sheep, including other rams, ewes, and lambs. It took me many hours of stalking and staying put to get this close for...
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 | Dec 7, 2016 | American Southwest, Arizona, Dragonflies, Insects, Invertebrates, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Travel
This beautifully blue male Sierra Madre dancer (Argia lacrimans) was found and photographed on a rock sticking out of Sonoita Creek in Patagonia, Arizona on a mild spring morning. Like all damselflies in the dancer family (named so because of their jerky, erratic and...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 11, 2016 | Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
My favorite palm! The paurotis palm is a wonderfully beautiful palm that I have a personal connection to. As I was starting to build my photography business back when I was still living back home in Southwest Florida, I worked in a plant nursery and planted many...
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