Leighton Photography & Imaging

As Spring has already sprung – I’m going to hurry up and get my winter seabirds of Northeast Florida photos from the past couple of months out to you. We are making some additions to the website tonight, and as a break – I’m going to do a simple and quick blog. Being from Southwest  [ Read More ]

Hello everyone! I’m just letting you know that Galina and I will be displaying and selling our work at the 2009 CREW Wildflower Festival in SW Florida on March 28th! I hope you will find the time to come spend an amazing day outdoors with experts in the field of Florida nature and stop by  [ Read More ]

Hello everyone! I’m just letting you know that Galina and I will be displaying and selling our work at the 2009 CREW Wildflower Festival in SW Florida on March 28th! I hope you will find the time to come spend an amazing day outdoors with experts in the field of Florida nature and stop by  [ Read More ]

This next post will continue from the last blog and show some of my photos and thoughts as I traveled from the Everglades to Sanibel, then turned north, heading up the west coast. Dawn the next morning brought one of the most beautiful sunrises of my life. My wife, son and I waited in total  [ Read More ]

I’ve had an amazing last six weeks and have been to just about every part of the state, excluding the Florida Keys and west of the Apalachicola River on the Panhandle. As we are expecting our second baby in May, it was a solo trip for me – but it allowed me to travel much  [ Read More ]

LEIGHTON’S PORTRAITPRO – OUTDOOR ENHANCER – Free Lightroom Preset – Leighton’s PortraitPro “Outdoor Enhancer” is our first Adobe Lightroom preset that is available free to photographers – from novice to working professional. I created and developed it for my own workflow and use it very often for my outdoor portraits that have a lot of  [ Read More ]

Hey Everyone! I’ve been procrastinating like crazy on what to start with, so I thought I’d just post a few recent photos to “get the ball rolling”. These are all examples of my work, after it has gone through the editing process – meaning Lightroom, Photoshop, Nik Software, as well as a few other tools  [ Read More ]

Greetings and welcome to our first blog! We are Rich and Galina Leighton (a family photography and digital art business in Tallahassee, Florida), and we will be broadcasting to the world all the things that we find cool, interesting, inspiring, that relate to (and) how we create our images. The purpose of this blog is  [ Read More ]

After a considerable delay, and admitting that I may not find the Downey Rattlesnake Orchid (Goodyera pubescens) this year, I will continue with this second part of my North Florida native orchid-hunting blog without having photos of it to finish it off. It is actually a blessing – as this is the only fall/winter orchid  [ Read More ]