by Rich Leighton | Jul 30, 2015
New photos! Recently passing through LA, I had a bit of time for a quick stop at the beach to check out the local shorebirds….. Brandt’s Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) Cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) are medium to large fish-eating waterbirds...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 29, 2015
This is going to be a post of few words and a lot of pictures. This past spring, there was a massive thunderstorm the day I was traveling through New Mexico toward the Big Bend National Park of West Texas. By the time I arrived, the Chihuahuan Desert sun was back out...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 27, 2015
If it may seem like I’ve been a little quiet lately, it’s for good reason. I took on a personal project of an enormous magnitude that while I’m still working on it now, I have enough of it put together to show and share with the world. After a recent...
by Rich Leighton | May 28, 2015
Last weekend I took some time off for camping, hiking and some much-needed R&R with my family in the Wenatchee National Forest in the mountains near Roslyn, Washington. While I wasn’t looking for things to photograph (I was on a mini-vacation after all...
by Rich Leighton | May 21, 2015
Quick post today from a even shorter stop just outside of Mecca, California in the dry and arid Colorado Desert where I found some very beautiful trees in flower and an interesting flowering bush that brings in loads of hummingbirds! Blue Palo Verde with Beans This...
