by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2017 | Birds, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Quick post for today. I’ve been sitting on this photo of a trio of black-necked stilts for a while because I saw something in it, but it just didn’t look right. Then I had one of those “a-ha!” moments and cropped it from a horizontal...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 13, 2016 | Florida, NANP, Native Orchids, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Quick post today to share with you one of my favorite terrestrial orchids of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts – the southern white fringed orchid! Often difficult to photograph in Florida’s bright summer sunlight, heavy overcast skies were a huge in helping...
by Rich Leighton | May 5, 2015 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Quick post for today on some of the more common birds of Southwest Florida, such as anhingas, herons, egrets and hawks. These species are most often found near or on the water. Anhinga Also known as the snakebird, the anhinga is a common fish-eating bird found along...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 22, 2015 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
Last week I happily knocked off another entry written down in my bucket list. I visited White Sands National Monument in New Mexico and it was so much better than everything I had hoped for! I’d read a lot about the area before I arrived over the years and...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2015 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel
Post #200! Many thanks for all of you who have hung around this long with me through the years! Today I’m still uploading images that have been in cue for editing and uploading to my nature photography website and these just happen to be from places not too far...
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