by Rich Leighton | Jan 31, 2011 | Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Yesterday morning I went to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast and started to realize as I got closer to the water that the fog was really going to be too thick to get the types of landscape shots I was after. As I entered the refuge,...
by Rich Leighton | May 17, 2010 | Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
The coral bean (Erythrina herbacea), also known as the Cherokee bean or the red cardinal, is a common springtime bloomer found all over the state of Florida. I’ve seen them in dense woodlands, sandy pine scrubs, and growing in hardwood hammocks at the edges of...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 11, 2009 | Featured, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
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...
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