by Rich Leighton | Jul 19, 2010
Yesterday was our fourth wedding anniversary, and we decided to do something a little different. We drove “north of the border” up into Georgia to check out the Birdsong Nature Center. Thinking it would be a nice place to let our two little boys run...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 22, 2010
Today I had a sudden urge to get away from my office, away from photo editing, away from working on web-related photo projects and just had to get into the woods, despite the heat and humidity. I loaded up my mountain bike for light and fast travel, chose my Nikon...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 17, 2010
Many years ago I learned a good lesson about wildlife and nature photography. Always have your camera ready and keep a predetermined setting so you won’t miss that sudden opportunity that will so often leap out in front of you. I missed my one and only Florida...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 8, 2010
A couple of days ago, I was driving along the coast of Apalachee Bay on the Florida Panhandle on the edge of Tate’s Hell State Forest when I saw the unexpected. It was a group of 25 to 30 cattle egrets along the shoreline and perched among the skeletal remains...
by Rich Leighton | May 30, 2010
Recently while on a trip along the St. Joseph Peninsula I stumbled into one of my very favorite of shoreline critters – the ghost crab. Even though they are very common all over Florida’s sandy coasts, the ghost crab is the master of camouflage and quite...
