Leighton Photography & Imaging

After years of hunting down and photographing wild orchids all over Florida and the American Southeast for much of the past decade, when we decided to move to Washington one of the first things that came to my mind as we began planning the move was, “There will be all kinds of new orchids for  [ Read More ]

This is pretty cool. Last year I was contacted by the Florida Department of Forestry about a project they were doing in the Ocala National Forest. It seemed they were making some new trails and wanted to add some informative signs and markers along the way to help and inform hikers and visitors as to  [ Read More ]

As promised, now that I have my new gallery system in place, I’m able to save a lot of time in post-production/publishing so I can post more work at a much faster pace. Here’s a new image I just finished editing. Snow in Summer – Shoshone National Forest ~ click to enlarge ~ This incredible  [ Read More ]

Sometimes I get into the groove writing a blog post and in no time it gets too big and long to fit into my preferred blog size (400 words max). This is when I chop it up and make it into a shot & sweet few paragraphs, add the image and hit “publish”. I thought  [ Read More ]

For those of us who have lived more or less within a few miles of saltwater for most of our lives, something about the dry, arid deserts and plains can be just about the most exotic and otherworldly place imaginable.  Something from a movie. From a Western novel. There are (almost) no trees, no humidity,  [ Read More ]

This will be a quick post, but as I’m finally caught up with nearly all the new website and photo gallery updates, I’m finally beginning to stop looking backward and making that great leap to “What’s next?” and looking forward to seeing and doing new things.  I’ve had a few really good outings in my  [ Read More ]

So rare is it that when in the wild I ever feel so naive, out of my depth, and just plain dumb. Such was the case a couple of months ago when this Floridian (yes the same one who spent many years of his life nonchalantly at ease in the water with wild Everglades snakes, alligators and the  [ Read More ]