by Rich Leighton | Oct 13, 2014
A couple of days ago I was prowling around Chatcolet Lake in Northwestern Idaho when I came across a quarry of white-tailed deer in the most beautiful countryside I’ve seen in a long time. This is one of the images I brought home. White-tailed Deer with Fall...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 5, 2014
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
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 20, 2014
Small change in the North American Nature Photography galleries! For the past 6 or 7 years, my images of mammals were divided into four sub-galleries. One for rodents, small mammals, large mammals and marine mammals. I’m not sure why I chose that odd system at...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 17, 2014
One of the most maddening and frustrating things I can to do as a working nature photographer is hunt down a group of highly excitable tiny butterflies known collectively as gossamer-wings, and get them on camera. This delicate and very beautiful butterfly family...