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 | Feb 25, 2022 | Landscape, Natural History, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Rivers, Washington
Last winter as we were saying our goodbye to Washington State which had been our home for the past decade, we visited Icicle Creek in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, a place my family and I had hiked the previous summer and I was after one last hunt for winter...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 22, 2022 | California, Landscape, Natural History, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest
On a trip to Southern Oregon and the Oregon Coast to photograph wild Pacific landscapes and a profusion of wild lilies and native bog orchids further inland, I ended up by accident in Medford, OR where I got this unexpected fantastic view of Mount Shasta from the top...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 18, 2015 | Fish, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography
A quick post because I’m supposed to be taking a vacation, and you know how it is with us workaholics, so I sort of cheated. Top photo and bottom video were shot with my phone, and only the male coho was shot with my work camera. Last week I was hiking along the...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 18, 2015 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Lately I’ve been shooting more new images faster than I can edit & caption them, so over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be finally getting new images of the wildlife of the Pacific Northwest ready and sharing a bunch of them as fast as I can upload....
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