Marty’s photo of the day #5222: I hate fucking golf. It is the most ecologically wasteful “sport” ever invented. Not only that, if you want to find a five-legged frog that’s where to look. Golf courses use way too much water and way too many chemicals. All to hit a fucking stationary ball with no […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5221: This is one of my favorite bald eagle photos. I was photographing orca whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when the boat I was on maneuvered around a tiny island. This eagle ruled that island.
Marty’s photo of the day #5220: Twenty-two years ago, when Deb and I backpacked across Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe, we witnessed a lot of copulation—from elephants to baboons to tsetse flies. There were also a few babies, such as this baby chacma baboon in his mother’s arms, while his dad—reminiscent of a certain […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5219: I was photographing orca whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when I saw this boat, so low in the water that it barely looked seaworthy. I snapped this picture and then returned my attention to the whales. Later, when I viewed it on my computer, I laughed because […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5217: Anyone for a great big Galapagos sea lion kiss? (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5216: Sometimes the best defense is to just stick your tongue out. This is an agouti, photographed in Costa Rica.
Marty’s photo of the day #5215: Killdeer, photographed in Montana. Note the three eggs in the background.
Marty’s photo of the day #5214: Deb and I will be returning to Costa Rica this coming spring. We’ll be staying at the same place we stayed at when I wrote my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico. This morning, as I was deciding […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5213: Look closely. It’s an octopus pretending to be a rock. (Photographed in the Sea of Cortez.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5212: I photographed this golden trumpet (Allamanda cathartica) on the island of Borneo. It’s not native to the island however, as it comes from tropical regions of Central and South America. Since I shot this photo many years ago, it took me a while to figure out what the colorful […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5210: I dug way back into my old photo files to find this one: Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwe side.
“The Tormentor of Nellie.” When Deb and I traveled to Vancouver Island in early September, we did so with a bit of trepidation. When we planned the trip months earlier, we thought our dog, Nellie, would be fully recovered from the TPLO surgery to give her a second bionic leg. Unfortunately, the X-ray showed that […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5209: There aren’t many fish that grab your attention like an eagle ray. (Photographed earlier this year in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5208: This pretty little bird is a belted kingfisher. (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5207: Today is Nellie’s seventh birthday! Well, give or take four months. I’m not really sure and arbitrarily picked Halloween. When Deb and I adopted Nellie from the local animal shelter back in 2000, she was a stray weighing just 42 pounds, and we had to argue with the person […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5207: I’ve stepped back while shooting photos of bears and moose, but I never dreamed I’d step back while shooting photos of orca whales. It was early morning on the Johnstone Strait of Vancouver Island. The extreme low tide meant I could walk out onto the newly exposed rocky beach […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5206: When it rained this week at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, we got diamonds. They were much prettier than all that tacky gold at the White House.
Marty’s photo of the day #5205: This is an immature bald eagle with the fish it caught. What you can’t see are the ravens in hot pursuit. (Photographed last month on Vancouver Island.)
