by Rich Leighton | Jun 22, 2010 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography Tips, Wildflowers
Today I had a sudden urge to get away from my office, away from photo editing, away from working on web-related photo projects and just had to get into the woods, despite the heat and humidity. I loaded up my mountain bike for light and fast travel, chose my Nikon...
by Rich Leighton | May 17, 2010 | 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 | May 5, 2010 | Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
For Florida springtime wildflowers, there is no place better than the Apalachicola National Forest. By mid-April (a little later this year due to the long winter) the sides of many of the roads are glittering with a rainbow of the most vivid colors and hues that...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 27, 2009 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Orchids, Photography, Wildflowers
My search for Tipularia discolor – the cranefly orchid – began last fall in North Florida along the Apalachicola River, and has proven to be (at least for me) one of the most difficult and frustrating of Florida’s wild and native orchids for me to find. It goes...
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