Marty’s photo of the day #4530: Here’s some cuteness for your Saturday—sea otters off the coast of Victoria Island.
Sea otters!
Black turnstone
Marty’s photo of the day #4529: Black Turnstone, photographed earlier this month on Vancouver Island.
Surreal post-sunset
Marty’s photo of the day #4519: During each of the three nights we stayed at The Cabins at Terrace Beach (Ucluelet, Vancouver Island) earlier this month, Deb and I would take Nellie for a walk down to the beach to watch the sunset. On our last night there, the actual sunset wasn’t overly special. In […]
Surfers on Vancouver Island
Marty’s photo of the day #4518: Deb’s and my two-week-long vacation on Vancouver Island was a fallback vacation that we decided on only two weeks before we departed. It truly was a “winging-it” adventure. Previously, the Covid-19 Pandemic canceled our Bonaire trip (now planned for next year), and then massive forest fires canceled what was […]
Harbor Seals
Marty’s photo of the day #4517: Ten harbor seals, photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Vancouver Island. Can you find all ten?
Bald eagles on Vancouver Island
Marty’s photo of the day #4516: While on Vancouver Island, I saw quite a few bald eagles. I wanted to get a shot of one in flight, but that was a challenge. Usually I’d see them far away, eating a fish on a spit of land, and start photographing them with my largest lens (I […]
Comox Lake Artsy
Marty’s photo of the day #4515: Today, I’m featuring an artsy photo: shooting through an opening in a stump, at sunset, at Comox Lake, on Vancouver Island.
Indigo’s tail
Marty’s photo of the day #4514: This tail belongs to a gray whale named Indigo (read on to learn how I know that). While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach […]
Snatching fish
Marty’s photo of the day #4513: This past Saturday was our final day on Vancouver Island, and by the time we got around to scheduling a ferry ride out of Nanaimo, only the last ferry had an availability. We had previously found Nanaimo to be a dirty, pedestrian-looking city, so we hung out in the […]
The gray whale adventure
Marty’s photo of the day #4512: While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach our Zodiac (a small rubber boat) and—just when it looked like they might capsize us—they’d dive under […]
A special place on Vancouver Island
Marty’s photos of the day #4507-4511: Yesterday I wrote about the “best outhouse ever” at a remote campsite on a river that Deb and I found by accident when we got lost following a maze of dirt roads—unnamed on our map—a few miles from the ocean, on the northeastern side of Vancouver Island. Today, I’m […]
The best outhouse in the history of outhouses
Marty’s photos of the day #4504-4506: Thanks to my dog, Nellie, for filling in for me during the past two weeks. Now that Deb, Nellie, and I are back home, I’m taking over my posts again. (Nellie fans don’t fret: she’ll be back again). I’m still sorting through the 1,500 photos I took during the […]
Nellie takes over
Marty’s photo of the day #4503: “Woof everyone! Nellie here. Dad is busy packing, so I’m taking over his post today. Mom and Dad were going to take me all the way to the top of Canada, but that trip got canceled because huge forest fires are blocking our way. Apparently these fires are burning […]
Antarctica on a sunny day
Statistically, clergy are much more dangerous
Marty’s photo of the day #4501: I shot this photograph many years ago in New Orleans. I know nothing about this person, but statistically a child would be safer with someone who looks like this than with Christian clergy—a lot safer. So if Republicans really care about children, why are they so bent out of […]
For the dog
Marty’s photo of the day #4500: In 2002, Deb and I and our dogs, Kate and Annie, traveled to the top of Canada in a 5,572 mile-long adventure that became the North American chapter in my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. That trip was as much for our dogs as […]
Stalking with Nellie
Marty’s photo of the day #4499: I shot this elk photo yesterday morning on the Essen Wildlife Refuge. We get a lot of elk here, but because elk move to different locations depending on the season, seeing an elk on the refuge with a full rack is rare. This bull was with five to fifteen […]
Brandt’s cormorant
Turk’s cap
Marty’s photo of the day #4497: Today I chose a photo folder at random and opened it up, hoping to find something I hadn’t posted before. This photo said, “Post me! Post me!” I shot this flower on a hike in Texas between college shows in 2009. I never posted it, because I didn’t know […]
At some point you have to run
Marty’s photo of the day #4496: A short excerpt from the Australia chapter in my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, explains this photo: A few of the caves had entrances large enough for a human to squeeze through. Reaching the small chambers, however, would have required dropping through layers of […]