by Rich Leighton | Mar 26, 2017 | Featured, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Today’s post is about one of my favorite wildflowers found in the swampy hardwood forests along the Gulf Coast – the cardinal flower. I was hiking through an area near Bristol, Florida called the “Garden of Eden Trail” when I spotted this...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 24, 2017 | Birds, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
Quick post for today. I’ve been sitting on this photo of a trio of black-necked stilts for a while because I saw something in it, but it just didn’t look right. Then I had one of those “a-ha!” moments and cropped it from a horizontal...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 12, 2017 | 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 | Mar 5, 2017 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
The American strawberry bush – also known by many other names such as the “hearts-a-bustin” and “hearts-bustin’-with-love”, is a native member of the bittersweet family is one of those oddly beautiful plants you find sometimes in...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 11, 2016 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
My favorite palm! The paurotis palm is a wonderfully beautiful palm that I have a personal connection to. As I was starting to build my photography business back when I was still living back home in Southwest Florida, I worked in a plant nursery and planted many...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 25, 2016 | Carnivorous Plants, 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...
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