The Florida Nature Photography major upgrade and facelift is now complete and online!!!! www.floridanaturephotography.com - also at WWW.LEIGHTONPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Nature Photography, writing and playing unusual acoustic music, harassing my attack cats, fishing, organic gardening, taking care of my exotic fruit trees, reading historical novels and books on botany, crazy Everglades solo trips, canoeing, distance nature travel, Fakahatchee, dodging hidden alligators, not eating any meat that lives above water, not breaking strings on my mandolin, mocking morons, avoiding professional victims, a good cup of tea, hot peppers, hot sauce, acting like the hot pepper isn't hot with tears and sweat pouring down my face, Florida Panthers Hockey, Manchester United Football Club, being back home in Florida, being a native Floridian (where did everybody go?), eating shrimp :-), my nice collection of orchids, complaining about Pavel Bure leaving the NHL, and most of all, my beautiful wife, Galina and perfect sons - Liam & Owen.
Music
My best band, The Shanklys, you guys should contact me, Arcade Fire, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Vedera, Rilo Kiley, Metric, Bat for Lashes, Eisley, Cat Power, Land of Talk, Hem, Bic Runga, Les Negresses Vertes, Chicherina, La Volee d'Castors, Morcheeba, Minor Threat, Bloodhound Gang, LUSH, The Smiths, Black Flag, Craig Wedren, Shudder to Think, Innocence Mission, Shelleyan Orphan, Masha i Medvedi, Zemfira, Bob Marley, Paris Combo, Pixies, The Church, Replacements, Fiona Apple, The Chieftans, Azure Ray, They Might Be Giants, The Connells, Bel Canto, Joy Division, Damien Rice, Jacob do Bandolim, Violent Femmes, Frente!, Loquat, The Pogues, and who can resist Richard Cheese?
Movies
WAKING LIFE, Slapshot, Amelie, Super Troopers, Boondock Saints, Jaws, Braveheart, Timeline, all Kevin Smith movies, anything with Clint Eastwood, Last of the Mohicans, Europa Europa, Before Sunrise, Jean de Florette, Bpat, Bpat2, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams, Animal House, Trainspotting, and Full Metal Jacket.
Television
TV sucks. Sports only. Go Florida Panthers!!!
Books
(Authors)
RANDY WAYNE WHITE, Allan W. Eckert, Voltaire, James Alexander Thom, Carl Hiaasin, Richard Dawkins, Charles Bukowski, Edward Rutherford, Ken Follett, James Michener, WILBUR SMITH, Dan Brown, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Twain, Leonard Cohen, John Tolland, Leon Uris, Ayn Rand, James Clavell, Morgan Llywellyn, Sam Harris, Robert N. Macomber, and Patrick D. Smith.
Heroes
My Dad - I'll always miss you!!! (March 16 1929 ~ April 1 2009)
Hello everyone! My name is Rich Leighton and I'm a professional photographer based in Tallahassee, Florida. My wife and I are the proud owners of the quirkiest photography and digital imaging company in the land - Leighton Photography & Imaging (www.leightonphotography.com) and we also run the wildly popular "Florida Nature Photography" website (www.floridanaturephotography.com)
Due to this ridiculous recession, I've had to expand to make ends meet, but am really having a blast with portrait photography and stylizing these images in very creative and artistic ways. Not that I am taking away too much time from my wildlife photography, it's just a whole new exciting world for me. As always, my enthusiasm for my art takes me along with it - often without letting me know where I am headed!
For my rates, contact me directly so we can arrange a meeting to go over details.
If you are a model, I am available for LIMITED TFP/TFCD so contact me for details and scheduling.
"Speak to me about art and I will learn more about you. Nature is also like that. When you look deeply into the natural world you look deeply into yourself -- when you describe nature, you describe yourself.
" ~Adam Wolpert
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Main edit of the video that was taken at Zen nightclub in Birmingham, AL on July 24th, 2009 and features DJ Kos scratching and mixing videos. This experience is stimulating to both the ears and the eyes. This is an open format for this event.
It wiped out 85% of all species on Earth in the End-Permian Mass Extinction 251 million years ago, and can do it again, right now. The much milder Cretaceous Crisis was the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Global warming is real and unfolding. The deniers are either blind or lying.
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hello dear friend wishing you a blessed day and weekend filled love,faith,joy,happiness,laughter,smiles.family,friends and the joy of life can fill your heart and soul with smiles bluesky..