by Rich Leighton | Feb 9, 2013 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
If you are a parent, then you know this face well – this very young elk calf is a sloppy eater! I photographed this wild herd yesterday in the Eastern Cascade Mountains near Yakima, Washington on a sunny, cold winter afternoon. Baby Elk ~ click to enlarge ~...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 18, 2012 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
One of the most bewildering sounds I’ve been hearing in the mountain forests sounded like air being blown over the neck of a big glass jug, only deeper and louder. It always seemed to resound of the rocky outcrops and insinuate its way through the trees like...
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...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 21, 2011 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Washington
I think I’ll let the image do the talking for me on this one…. Mountain Stream with a Touch of Snow ~ Mount Rainier, Washington ~ see more images like this ~ LAKES, RIVERS AND WATERFALLS GALLERY ...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 31, 2011 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
I’ve been shooting wild and natural landscapes in many locations in the United States for a long time now. One of the most disastrous things a photographer can do is get lazy when shooting new places. It happens to the best of us, and everyone does it: we get...
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