Marty’s photo of the day #5211: It’s a BLUE WAVE, baby! (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
It’s a Blue Wave, Baby!
Victoria Falls
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.
Nellie and the Squirrel
“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 […]
Eagle Ray Passing By
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.)
Belted Kingfisher
Marty’s photo of the day #5208: This pretty little bird is a belted kingfisher. (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
Nellie’s Birthday
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 […]
Orcas Closer than I Immagined
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 […]
Rain Diamonds
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.
Bald Eagle Getaway
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.)
Animal Rescues
Marty’s photo of the day #5204: I lost track of how many geckos, lizards, and crabs I rescued from bathrooms while visiting Indonesian New Guinea last year. If I remember correctly, this one was the fastest of them all, requiring teamwork with my wife to wrangle and return to the outdoors.
The Eleven Thousand Dollar Dog
Three years ago, Nellie got a bionic left-rear leg (TPLO surgery to replace the CCL ligament in her knee with a metal plate and six screws). Then, earlier this year, she blew out the CCL in her right-rear leg. That meant surgery to give her a second bionic leg. Her first surgery healed in about […]
We’re Invisable!
Marty’s photo of the day #5203: “You can’t see us. We’re invisible!” (Photographed last month on Vancouver Island.)
Photo Editing and Whale Shark Rides
How much photo editing is too much for a nature shot? Ansel Adams heavily altered and improved his photos in the darkroom, famously viewing the photographic negative as a musical score and the final darkroom print as the performance. As for me, I have traditionally come down on the side of getting my images 90 […]
Nurse Shark
Marty’s photo of the day #5202: This is a nurse shark, photographed last year off the coast of Belize.
Penguins Urge: Vote Left
Marty’s photo of the day #5201: “And remember Americans, whether you vote early or vote on Election Day, vote left. Not only will your vote improve life for humans worldwide, but it will also improve life for endangered species like me.” (Galapagos penguin. Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Swimming With a Hawksbill Turtle
Marty’s photo of the day #5200: Deb and I enjoyed a lengthy encounter with this beautiful hawksbill turtle, watching it eat and surface before swimming away. (Photographed two years ago off the coast of Bonaire.)
Republican hate toward Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
The Republican hate toward Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is so fucking disgusting! She is now having to move to protect herself and her children. The right-wing piece of shit, Western Journal, is among the worst media outlets. But they are really good at clickbait headlines. A few years ago, I clicked on some bigoted Western […]
Burrowing Owl at Sunset
Marty’s photo of the day #5199: This is a burrowing owl, photographed at sunset, with barely enough light, in the American Prairie of central Montana.
The Transgender Bird Wrasse
Marty’s photo of the day #5198: The fish in the foreground is a bird wrasse (terminal phase), and the fish in the background is a manybar goatfish. Interesting fact: all bird wrasses start out as female (initial phase). When the dominant male in a harem dies or leaves, the largest, most dominant female undergoes the […]
Wild Donkey Photobomb
Marty’s photo of the day #5197: I’ve mentioned before how much I fell in love with the wild donkeys on Bonaire. For this photo, I was on my knees, hoping to capture an image of the young donkey in the background. Then an older donkey does a foreground-photobomb. “Photograph me! I’m much cuter.”