by Rich Leighton | Mar 20, 2017
A few days ago, I was traveling through Oregon and took a little dip into Northern California to spend some time in the wetlands of the Klamath Basin. My aim was to photograph migrating waterfowl as well as check out some of the local landscapes. It was sort of a...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 18, 2017
Last night I was wrapping up a quick four-day nature photography road trip in search of new images and ideas when I found myself standing behind North Falls – an insanely beautiful and violent waterfall just gushing with snowmelt just east of Salem, Oregon....
by Rich Leighton | Mar 12, 2017
Ten years ago I spotted my first wild ghost orchid in the Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida after literally years of exhaustively searching the wetlands and wading through enormous tracts of swamp following a grid pattern on a worn-out, folded-up survey map....
by Rich Leighton | Mar 5, 2017
The American strawberry bush – also known by many other names such as the “hearts-a-bustin” and “hearts-bustin’-with-love”, is a native member of the bittersweet family is one of those oddly beautiful plants you find sometimes in...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 2, 2017
There is nothing as beautiful as the mist rising like wildfire smoke over a river on a very chilly Canadian Rocky Mountain winter sunrise This morning was no different than any other on the slippery edge of the hoarfrost-crusted Bow River just west of Calgary,...
