by Rich Leighton | Mar 12, 2017 | Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Orchids
Ten years ago I spotted my first wild ghost orchid in the Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida after literally years of exhaustively searching the wetlands and wading through enormous tracts of swamp following a grid pattern on a worn-out, folded-up survey map....
by Rich Leighton | Jul 25, 2016 | Carnivorous Plants, Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Sometimes while searching among the most remote wild places across North America hunting down rare native orchids and other flora and fauna, I often find patches of amazing animal-eating carnivorous plants! This is exactly how I stumbled into these hooded pitcher...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 22, 2012 | Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Orchids, Photography, Wildflowers
Welcome to the first part of my new series, “Profiles in Nature”. Over the years I’ve amassed a great deal of information about natural history as a result of a lot of reading and being a natural outdoorsman. I grew up fascinated with the plants and...
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