by Rich Leighton | Nov 7, 2011
Vultures: nature’s clean-up crew, scavengers, the nastiest animals alive – whatever you want to call them, they are essential in the promoting health and well-being in nature. They eat the dead, and thus prevent the diseases and harmful germs of rotting...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 31, 2011
I’ve been shooting wild and natural landscapes in many locations in the United States for a long time now. One of the most disastrous things a photographer can do is get lazy when shooting new places. It happens to the best of us, and everyone does it: we get...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 24, 2011
Short post for today. Sometimes we make a couple of mistakes in making a photograph, but see so much in it that we still like that we decide to try do a little digital magic to flush out what it was that we like and cover up the mistake(s). ~ click to enlarge ~ That...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 19, 2011
When people think of Southern Florida, they rarely think of lonely mile after mile of endless cow fields and citrus groves, or the acres upon acres of sugarcane that would resemble the enormous cornfields found in the Midwest if it weren’t for the sweltering...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 14, 2011
One of the perks of being a nature photographer is getting to see so much intense wild beauty that most people regrettably will never see except on television or online. Over the years I’ve enjoyed so many jaw-dropping views, experienced incredible (and often...
