Last August as I was just learning my way in a totally alien environment in the Cascades Mountains, this newcomer from Florida was searching for exotic wild orchids in Stevens Pass east of Seattle. Constantly looking over my shoulder for that great white shark of the land – the grizzly bear, I plunged into my [ Read More ]
I think I’ll let the image do the talking for me on this one…. Mountain Stream with a Touch of Snow ~ Mount Rainier, Washington Visit my Lakes, Rivers and Waterfalls gallery to see more images like this, or see this image on Fine Art America. Rich Leighton November 21, 2011
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.” ~ Douglas Adams There is a park in Medina, Washington that has become my private outdoor office over the past few months [ Read More ]
Composition is a key component of making photographs. We all know about the rule of thirds, placement of subject matter, etc. but how many of us really think about what we will be doing with the shot after the shutter is pressed? There are different types of composition practices for different uses of the image. [ Read More ]
Sometimes I find a beautiful specimen in nature that I simply just can’t identify. Tonight I finally identified a beautiful red mushroom I photographed five years ago in Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida’s Western Everglades. I knew immediately it was an Amanita, but which one? I had no idea. I have a bookshelf of field [ Read More ]
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 and decomposing flesh from getting transmitted to the living. The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) [ Read More ]
Tonight I had a bit of a fan-boy moment. A week ago a friend on Facebook let me know that Art Wolfe was going to be doing a presentation in Tacoma, Washington and there was nothing that was going to keep me from going to see that! The presentation was about a series of dog [ Read More ]
