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Archive for August, 2009

Wild Butterflies of Florida

Posted by Rich Leighton on August - 28 - 2009

A couple of months ago, I was looking for independent musicians who were willing to share their original music with me to create a few slideshows in return for letting them use some of my work or the finished slideshows for their uses. I eventually settled on two musicians, and I thought that Elizabeth Middleton’s  [ Read More ]

A Florida Oddity……

Posted by Rich Leighton on August - 27 - 2009

This is more of a quick note with a bizarre photo, rather than an actual post. We’ve been working out hearts out trying to get the new FloridaNaturePhotography.com upgrade out, and it has more or less taken up all of my writing time. Every photo and page is in the process of being re-edited for  [ Read More ]

Categories: Nature Photography

Arachnophilia!

Posted by Rich Leighton on August - 8 - 2009

Thirty minutes past dawn, and I’m deep in the the steamy sweltering heat at the edge of a swamp in North Florida in summer. Mosquitoes are tearing me up, but the deer flies aren’t out yet. Again, I’m not using insect repellent because I can’t stand the way it feels on my skin, and my  [ Read More ]

Categories: Nature Photography

Rusted and Busted

Posted by Rich Leighton on August - 3 - 2009

Yesterday (8/2/2009) I went off to explore rural North Florida in search of interesting subjects to photograph. When you are out in the country, you never quite know what you will find. Within an hour, I watched fanboats patrolling on the Wacissa River, witnessed a baptism in a natural spring, watched a baby alligator snapping  [ Read More ]

Categories: Photography

Destination…. Almost Cedar Key

Posted by Rich Leighton on August - 1 - 2009

Do you know how you’ve traveled past a certain place a hundred times and always wanted to stop, but you never seem to have the time? I have one of those places, it’s Cedar Key, Florida. Recently, I met up with a friend of mine in Crystal River to do some nature photography around the  [ Read More ]

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