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...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 25, 2016 | Carnivorous Plants, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Sometimes while searching among the most remote wild places across North America hunting down rare native orchids and other flora and fauna, I often find patches of amazing animal-eating carnivorous plants! This is exactly how I stumbled into these hooded pitcher...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 9, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
Yakima River Canyon, Washington June 1, 2014, 11pm I arrived later than planned this late afternoon to Cowiche Canyon, where the trip was half spur of the moment/half delayed because of a nasty headache. Not too much exciting happened except I saw my first badger...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Photography
Easily the most beautiful of North America’s native pitcher plants, the white-topped pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla), also known as the white trumpet or crimson pitcher plant, is found in the wild in the American Southeast in the states of Mississippi,...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 15, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
I find that the more I travel around the Western United States in search of rare native wildflowers and orchids, the more my curiosity and fondness grows for members of the genus Castilleja. Commonly known as Indian paintbrushes, these beautiful and variable...
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