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 ]
It’s that time of year again, and Seattle’s biggest holiday season attraction, The Nutcracker, is once again being performed the the premier Pacific Northwest Ballet at McCaw Hall, near the Space Needle. In a series of limited-attendance parties before the show and during intermission, Leighton Photography & Imaging will be onsite photographing families, couples, sweethearts and children in a full [ Read More ]
Just a quick (and a bit late) post here to let everyone know we’ve finally cracked the Pacific Northwest publishing nut and have one of our images appearing in print in this month’s very popular Seattle magazine. One of my shots from earlier this year was picked up by their art department and purchased for [ Read More ]
I rarely (if ever) do these kinds of posts here, but this time this is for something special, and there’s a first time for everything… I’ll skip the cheesy sales pitch (I don’t like them either and they make me feel dirty, irritated and bitter inside) and tell you what I have to say: With my new gallery system [ 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 ]
Here’s a quick post I’ve been meaning to write for a while (before the big move) but never seemed to have a chance to write it until now. All across the social media spectrum I’ve been explaining myself until my typing fingers can’t take it anymore. Here it is in one place, and I’ll try [ Read More ]
This past week I was on personal business in Washington State – Seattle to be exact – and unfortunately did not have time allotted for photography. I was on a tight schedule, and didn’t feel like dragging my gear from the Southeast to the Northwest if I wasn’t going to use it. The scenery was outlandishly beautiful [ Read More ]
After years of talking about it, planning it, traveling around the state of Florida shooting for it – I am please to announce that my first book, “Native Orchids of Florida” by Rich Leighton is now published and available. This announcement was originally posted our blog on FloridaNaturePhotography.com – follow the link here.
