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Indigo’s tail

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

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 […]

For the dog

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

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 […]

Turk’s cap

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

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 […]