by Rich Leighton | Feb 3, 2019 | Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Landscape, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Estuaries are the bridges to land and sea, and it’s here where life is most abundant. Twice a day these shallow water experience a change in salinity due to changing tides, and this attracts about 20 times the amount of biological mass than the open ocean...
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 | Oct 21, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Observations, Photography, Travel, Washington
A few days ago I was driving eastward across the state of Washington across the barren sagebrush desert with my family when one of my boys needed to use the restroom. We stopped just east of Ellensburg at the Ryegrass Safety Rest Area in Kittitas County, and as...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 5, 2014 | Cactus, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
Recently I made yet another foray into the deserts of my increasingly favorite area of the Pacific Northwest, the Oak Creek Wildlife Area in Yakima County, Washington. As I’ve stated in other posts across the years, I am a big fan of cacti – and especially...
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