by Rich Leighton | Oct 22, 2012 | NANP, Native Orchids, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Welcome to the first part of my new series, “Profiles in Nature”. Over the years I’ve amassed a great deal of information about natural history as a result of a lot of reading and being a natural outdoorsman. I grew up fascinated with the plants and...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 7, 2011 | Birds, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Vultures: nature’s clean-up crew, scavengers, the nastiest animals alive – whatever you want to call them, they are essential in the promoting health and well-being in nature. They eat the dead, and thus prevent the diseases and harmful germs of rotting...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 23, 2011 | Birds, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Photography
Last week during a regular trip to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, I was enjoying a day off while scouting out new places to go hiking, etc. rather than looking for more subjects to photograph for work when one of those maddening little birds that I can never...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 31, 2011 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Yesterday morning I went to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast and started to realize as I got closer to the water that the fog was really going to be too thick to get the types of landscape shots I was after. As I entered the refuge,...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 3, 2011 | Birds, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Sandwich Tern! Recently I was in Lido Key, Florida – a popular tourist destination in the Sarasota area when I had some down time in my travels around my home state to visit South Lido Beach. As soon as I got out of my car, I noticed a tern on the sand near...
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