by Rich Leighton | Mar 30, 2018 | Florida Nature Facts, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Orchids
Probably the most famous of our southern native orchids, the rare, leafless and mysterious ghost orchid of South Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas is at home in the dark, humid swamps where it regularly skips a few to up to a dozen or more years between flowering. It is...
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 30, 2014 | Amphibians, Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Nature Photography, Photography
Endemic to the United States, the squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella) is an attractive native tree frog is native to the Coastal Plain of the American Southeast, ranging as far north and east as North Carolina (and possibly Virginia) all the way to Texas in the West,...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 4, 2013 | Florida Nature Photography, Herps, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Reptiles
Every once in a while I go through my old images and find one I can’t believe I missed….. but better late than never! Check out this juvenile alligator, it’s got the eyes of a killer! American Alligator ~ click to enlarge ~ In some parts of the...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 12, 2011 | Florida, Florida Nature Photography, Mushrooms, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Sometimes I find a beautiful specimen in nature that I simply just can’t identify. Tonight I finally identified a beautiful red mushroom I photographed five years ago in Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida’s Western Everglades. I knew immediately it...
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