by Rich Leighton | Dec 22, 2019 | Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The understory and forest floor is where much of the biodiversity is found in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Aside from the tall conifers, there are smaller trees that thrive their shade like maple and dogwood, as well as shade-loving shrubs like...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 21, 2018 | Florida, Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Trees
Sound fades in forests, making trees a popular natural noise barrier. The muffling effect is largely due to rustling leaves — plus other woodland white noise, like bird songs — and just a few well-placed trees can cut background sound by 5 to 10 decibels, or about 50...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 24, 2017 | British Columbia, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest
Last week I was in Banff, Alberta where I had been attending the AMAZING Second Annual International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit. On the way home headed westward back to Seattle, I took a curve on a mountain highway near Revelstoke, British...
by Rich Leighton | May 15, 2012 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Greetings everyone! I’ve been working on a couple of big posts lately and been out shooting nearly every free minute, so I’ve fallen a week behind. That said, I’m going to share a few of my latest images of West Tiger Mountain (which is about twenty...
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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