by Rich Leighton | Apr 1, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
After all these years of traveling around the country to get the best photographs of backyard songbirds, today I had to go no further than my back porch just south of Seattle, Washington. There is a bigleaf maple tree that is just going into flower, yet is still...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 2, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Potpourri, Reptiles, Travel, Washington
In an effort to make sure I keep my posts current, regular and interesting, I’ve been thinking about this idea for a long time. I edit and post so many new images from all over the continent to the North American Nature Photography website that many of them...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 20, 2013 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, News, Photography, Wildflowers
Over the past decade, the amount of native North American native wildflowers in our ever-growing photo galleries has reached the point to where we can’t reasonably split and categorize them just by color. It started to look disorganized, confusing, and more than a...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 9, 2013 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
If you are a parent, then you know this face well – this very young elk calf is a sloppy eater! I photographed this wild herd yesterday in the Eastern Cascade Mountains near Yakima, Washington on a sunny, cold winter afternoon. Baby Elk ~ click to enlarge ~...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 23, 2013 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
The rocky coastline of Cape Flattery is located at the most extreme northwestern corner of the contiguous United States on the Olympic Peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean joins the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Millennia of pounding waves, tides and erosion have sculpted the...
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