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 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 | Sep 29, 2014 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
Last weekend I was on a more relaxed nature photography trip than my usual frenzied “cover as many miles as possible on no sleep” routine and brought a friend along with me for some camping and hiking. The first day way spent above Lake Mowich near Spray...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 6, 2012 | NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
As summer begins to slip into fall, and the days of sunshine in the Pacific Northwest will soon turn into weeks and weeks of rain, this year I am positive that I will have more than enough material to keep me working through all the upcoming rainy days. At the risk of...
by Rich Leighton | Aug 6, 2012 | Featured, Landscape, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel, Washington
It’s not everyday I come in from a shooting venture and return so excited that I pick the shot, clean it up, and blog about it immediately. Ok – that never happens. But this time it did, and for good reason. I’ve fallen in love with Mount Rainier....
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