by Rich Leighton | Oct 22, 2012 | 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...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 7, 2011 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Vultures: nature’s clean-up crew, scavengers, the nastiest animals alive – whatever you want to call them, they are essential in the promoting health and well-being in nature. They eat the dead, and thus prevent the diseases and harmful germs of rotting...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 20, 2011 | Florida Nature Photography, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, News, Travel
This is pretty cool. Last year I was contacted by the Florida Department of Forestry about a project they were doing in the Ocala National Forest. It seemed they were making some new trails and wanted to add some informative signs and markers along the way to help and...
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 | May 2, 2010 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
Last month I was in the Big Cypress National Preserve looking for new material for www.FloridaNaturePhotography.com – particularly birds in breeding plumage when I spotted this amazing tricolored heron on the side of the road. It was in the most resplendent of...
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