by Rich Leighton | Jun 10, 2019 | Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Utah
The geologic term, hoodoo, lives on at Bryce Canyon National Park as perpetuated by early geologists who thought the rock formations could cast a spell on you with their magical spires and towering arches. MORE PHOTOS OF LANDSCAPES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 26, 2018 | Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Texas
The Guadalupe Mountains just East of El Paso, Texas are part of one of the finest examples of an ancient marine fossil reef on Earth. Geologists come here from around the world to marvel at this extraordinary natural phenomenon, which formed approximately 250 million...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 21, 2016 | American Southwest, Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Texas
The Chisos Mountains are old. REALLY old for the Southern United States. These mountains were pushed up to elevations of more than 5,000 feet above sea level by a great deformation during the Cenozoic era (66 million years ago to present). Other geological uplifts...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 21, 2015 | American Southwest, Ancient America, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Texas, Travel
This is my fourth entry into my new series, Ancient America which features a minimalistic, raw and unpolished look at black and white landscape photography from around North America from the viewpoint of what it would have looked like before people arrived. El...
by Rich Leighton | May 9, 2013 | California, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Reptiles, Travel
*As I was putting together images for this post, and finishing up editing my images of the California kingsnake, “Like a California King” by Everclear just happened to start playing on iTunes by sheer coincidence, so it became the title of this post....
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