Natural Disasters + Natural Beauty = Best Portrait Session

Rich Leighton, Author at Leighton Photography & Imaging

Natural Disasters + Natural Beauty = Best Portrait Session

Today is going to be a post that has been floating around my head for a few years. I’m going to try and keep it short and succinct, while letting the imagery do most of the talking for me. For this shoot, we used a natural disaster (forest fires) into an incredible opportunity for an […]

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My New Sanibel Island Art Installation!

This is a post I’m really proud of. Earlier this year, I was contacted by the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society on Florida’s Sanibel Island about the possibility of one of my images being used for an installation at the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Even though I now live in the opposite corner of the country, The […]

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A Slightly Different Look at Seattle

Last week I was shooting a business event at a law firm in downtown Seattle on the 34th floor near the waterfront and had periodic stretches of downtime, which I spent marveling at the absolute beauty of the busy world far below me. I decided to knock out a few shots with the portrait lens […]

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Civil War Reenactment

It’s a new year, and for the first time in a couple of years I’m going to try a couple of new things with my blogging platform (which is also used as an extension of our website). The biggest thing that holds me back is the sheer amount of time formatting these posts. One paragraph and […]

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Second-Last Outdoor Portrait Session of the Year

Wrapping up 2016!  After the Christmas parties, events, portraits, corporate fundraisers, more parties and other events I’ve been working daily for the past couple of months, I did schedule some time to do some smaller family outdoor portrait sessions with attendees of the corporate jobs I met along the way as the end-of-year party season ramped […]

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Last Outdoor Portrait Session of the Year

As the final days count down, 2016 has been a wild and exciting ride as we finish out with one last outdoor portrait session of the year. This wonderfully sweet and warm family finally got ready just in time for the Seattle’s winter rain to start, and it almost ruined our scheduled shoot. Luckily I knew […]

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Indira and Justin’s Wedding in Everett, Washington

A couple of days ago I finished and delivered the Indira and Justin’s images (my last wedding for the season) that was held at the beautiful Monte Cristo Ballroom in downtown Everett, Washington just a couple of weeks ago. I had an absolute blast on this one, and everyone involved couldn’t have been nicer! The […]

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Casey and Eliot’s Big Day

It’s been a seriously busy couple of months and I’m just trying to get caught up sharing some of the most amazing photoshoots I’ve been lucky enough to be apart of since my last flurry of posts when I got my last break. I just wanted to share some of the images from the latest wedding […]

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Military Portrait Photo Restoration

One of my favorite jobs I am increasingly getting at work are photo restorations. For someone who is always running all over town setting up photo equipment, shooting, breaking down and hitting the next location – the option of sitting in one place for a couple of hours is pure joy to someone like me. […]

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