by Rich Leighton | Aug 6, 2012 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
It’s not everyday I come in from a shooting venture and return so excited that I pick the shot, clean it up, and blog about it immediately. Ok – that never happens. But this time it did, and for good reason. I’ve fallen in love with Mount Rainier....
by Rich Leighton | Jul 18, 2012 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
One of the most bewildering sounds I’ve been hearing in the mountain forests sounded like air being blown over the neck of a big glass jug, only deeper and louder. It always seemed to resound of the rocky outcrops and insinuate its way through the trees like...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 19, 2012 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
I’ve passed the nine-month mark as a Washington resident, and I thought it was time for me to plant my flag and give myself the hesitant yet inevitable title as a Washington nature photographer. Seems so strange after all those years of being known as “that crazy...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 7, 2012 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
This morning started off with snow and by noon, the snow had melted and the sun was out resulting in a beautiful bright, cheery day at just above freezing: my kind of weather, and stuck in my office was the last place I wanted to be. So I grabbed a camera and a zoom...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 17, 2012 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
So often as is the case, I am en route to my photography location du jour which my inner nerd has neatly located, diagrammed, planned, and studied when movement out of the corner of my eye puts a snag in my orderly system. I was climbing into the Cascades Mountains...
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