by Rich Leighton | Jan 25, 2024 | Colorado, Mammals, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Rocky Mountains, Squirrels, Uncategorized, Utah, Washington
The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a fascinating species found across most of the western United States and north into Alberta and British Columbia in Canada. With a distinctive striped appearance and several unique behaviors, this...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 10, 2019 | Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Utah
The geologic term, hoodoo, lives on at Bryce Canyon National Park as perpetuated by early geologists who thought the rock formations could cast a spell on you with their magical spires and towering arches. MORE PHOTOS OF LANDSCAPES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 11, 2018 | American Southwest, Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Utah
The Moab Desert in eastern Utah has a very interesting history and ecosystem. The human history can be traced back over 10,000 years, and the first signs of humans appeared as signs carved into indigenous rock formations found in several places. Hundreds of species of...
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 | 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 | 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...
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