by Rich Leighton | Feb 25, 2022 | Landscape, Natural History, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Rivers, Washington
Last winter as we were saying our goodbye to Washington State which had been our home for the past decade, we visited Icicle Creek in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, a place my family and I had hiked the previous summer and I was after one last hunt for winter...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 30, 2016 | Birds, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Washington
Yesterday I was in Bellevue, Washington working as a Master Naturalist in an area where I work frequently pulling out invasive bindweed and blackberry plants to make room for native species, and I brought my camera along with me. Unusually sunny and bright for such a...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 25, 2016 | Birds, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Washington
For the past couple of years there has been a red-breasted nuthatch that lives near my house that is almost always visible until the moment I have a camera in hand, and it’s been driving me crazy. It was funny at first, but after months stretching into years, it...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 26, 2016 | Invertebrates, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
If you’ve ever hiked or visited the Pacific Northwest, you’ve undoubtedly come across this majestic mollusk – the Pacific banana slug. While most people take a look and say, “cool!” and continue hiking, these slugs are actually very...
by Rich Leighton | Dec 16, 2015 | Ancient America, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Travel, Washington
“Sol Duc Falls” is my fifth 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...
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