Downtown Seattle at night! Just a quick post with a photograph taken tonight of the city of Seattle. What a beautiful, beautiful city! So happy to call it my adopted home…. Seattle, Washington (click to enlarge) Rich LeightonMarch 8, 2013 ...
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...
As 2013 flows in and 2012 ebbs out, we welcome the beginning of a brand new year while observing a solemn fare–thee–well to the last. The final months of 2012 were very exciting times for both myself and my company, Leighton Photography & Imaging. We finished a...
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...
South Coast of Oregon, Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 3:43 am Just broke camp after a great night of sleeping among the evergreens in a forest next the the rocky coast. I awoke at midnight, realizing once again I was underprepared for a chilly Fall Pacific Northwest...
Today I want to talk a little about style. Periodically I poke around the web and have a look at what other people (both pros and amateurs) are doing in regards to portraits and I’ve been seeing something that has me feeling a little disappointed. Maybe it’s just me,...
The other night I was shooting for a corporate business event in downtown Seattle. As you can guess, it was raining the entire time, but it didn’t matter too much because the event was indoors. Afterward I was leaving the event and weaving my way through...
Cold and rainy Seattle Monday evening tonight – perfect for an outdoor portrait session? Yes! This is Jessica’s shoot. Because we planned an outdoor portrait session, the rain literally put a damper on our plans, but we persevered and under the cover of...
A few hours ago, we just got our power restored after 58 hours of non-preparedness and freezing in our home. Being relatively still new to Washington from Florida, we were absolutely not prepared for an extended power outage, which was cause by a massive Ice storm...
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...
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