by Rich Leighton | Mar 21, 2017 | American Southwest, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Utah, Wildflowers
As is often the case in wildflowers, telling one species from another can be exceedingly difficult. Especially when there are naturally occurring hybrids, same species with wildly variable physical attributes and just geographically separated populations of the same...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 27, 2015 | American Southwest, Ancient America, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Utah
This is my second 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. Double...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 31, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
It’s no surprise to those who have followed me over the years that the Moab Desert is one of my very favorite places in the world. Having lived in wet, damp and foggy places all my life like SW Florida (hurricanes and 100% humidity), Nova Scotia (fog and rain)...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 5, 2014 | Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us – like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness – that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which...
by Rich Leighton | Aug 22, 2014 | Amphibians, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Toads, Travel
This past week I happened to be in one of my favorite places in the entire United States – Arches National Park in Eastern Utah’s Moab Desert. The last time I was here last year there was a huge storm that pretty much killed any chances of getting any good...
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