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 | Sep 27, 2015 | American Southwest, Ancient America, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Utah
This is my second entry into my new series, Ancient America which features a minimalistic, raw and unpolished look at black and white landscape photography from around North America from the viewpoint of what it would have looked like before people arrived. Double...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 31, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
It’s no surprise to those who have followed me over the years that the Moab Desert is one of my very favorite places in the world. Having lived in wet, damp and foggy places all my life like SW Florida (hurricanes and 100% humidity), Nova Scotia (fog and rain)...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 5, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us – like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness – that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which...
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