Leighton Photography & Imaging

Congratulations on your engagement! You probably haven’t arrived at this page if you weren’t already looking for a wedding photographer, right? The good news is – you’ve come to the right place. Many brides & grooms-to-be are so overwhelmed with the monumental task of the upcoming wedding that they forget to ask or don’t even  [ Read More ]

It’s been a busy spring! My latest wedding was a small intimate home wedding in Renton, Washington. The service was held on the back porch with sunlight softly filtering through the trees, and it couldn’t have been a more beautiful ceremony. Here’s to a long and happy future for Ju and Calvin!  Rich Leighton May 30,  [ Read More ]

*As I was putting together images for this post, and finishing up editing my images of the California kingsnake, “Like a California King” by Everclear just happened to start playing on iTunes by sheer coincidence, so it became the title of this post. Somehow I had the feeling it would be kind of wrong if  [ Read More ]

Valley of Fire, Nevada April 5, 2013, 4AM   First night in the desert after flying from Seattle to Las Vegas earlier in the day. Spent the night in the car as it got dark while hiking and was too tired to set up the tent. Windows rolled down, the wind through the rocks and  [ Read More ]

It’s wedding season again here in the Northwest, and I’ve been ridiculously busy with event photography, traveling and editing wedding photos. I was lucky enough to be hired for the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Leung which took place at the amazing Sorrento Hotel in downtown Seattle. I’ll just let the photos speak for themselves! Congratulations,  [ Read More ]

Just a quick post with a photograph taken tonight of the city of Seattle. What a beautiful, beautiful city! So happy to call it my adopted home…. Seattle, Washington (click to enlarge) Rich Leighton March 8, 2013                                        [ Read More ]

Last week I spent an absolutely freezing morning at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of the capital city of Olympia, Washington. Located at the mouth of the Nisqually River, which originates far up Mount Rainier, it is made up of both precipitation famous to the Pacific Northwest and mineral-rich glacier waters from the mountain itself.  [ Read More ]

If you are a parent, then you know this face well – this very young elk calf is a sloppy eater! I photographed this wild herd yesterday in the Eastern Cascade Mountains near Yakima, Washington on a sunny, cold winter afternoon. Baby Elk ~ click to enlarge ~   Rich Leighton February 9, 2013    [ Read More ]

Beer. There is nothing else quite like it. To quote Frank Zappa, “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” I’ve been sporadically hired to  [ Read More ]

Every once in a while I go through my old images and find one I can’t believe I missed….. but better late than never! American Alligator  ~ click to enlarge ~ In some parts of the Fakahatchee Strand in the northwestern Florida Everglades, it is very common to wade into areas heavily populated with alligators  [ Read More ]