by Rich Leighton | Nov 22, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Yesterday I went for a short hike around one of my regular stopping places in the Cascade Mountains at Gold Creek Pond at the very top of Snoqualmie Pass, just east of Seattle. Toward the top of the pass, it just started snowing, and there was a couple of inches of...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 29, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
Last weekend I was on a more relaxed nature photography trip than my usual frenzied “cover as many miles as possible on no sleep” routine and brought a friend along with me for some camping and hiking. The first day way spent above Lake Mowich near Spray...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 11, 2014 | Herps, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Reptiles, Washington
Last week I was doing a swing through Central Washington and I finally saw, caught and released my first West Coast rattlesnake. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long already. Oddly enough I had my main portrait lens on my camera when I spotted it, and...
by Rich Leighton | May 27, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Yesterday I was spending a nice family day/Memorial Day with my wife and kids and we went for a late afternoon/early evening hike through the old-growth forest around Deep Lake in Nolte State Park which is about 40 miles southeast from Seattle in the foothills of the...
by Rich Leighton | Aug 20, 2013 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Yesterday afternoon and into the evening, I was on a family hiking trip as opposed to a serious photography trip to the Northern Cascades near the Washington/British Columbia border where I ran into a colony of American pikas on a subalpine hillside near Cascade Pass....
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