Marty’s photo of the day #2920: Laurel Pfund and Deb Essen—enjoying a beautiful day, heading up the Amazon River in Peru.
Heading up the Amazon
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Year: 2019
Looking the part
After I wrote Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents and turned it into a college show, I realized that I was getting a bit heavy in my face. Since I’ve been a talent agent most of my life, and I was now agenting myself, I followed the advice I would give to any […]
That look you give . . .
Marty’s photo of the day #2919: That look you give someone when they say they support Donald Trump, but it has nothing to do with disliking or being afraid of brown people. (Black-headed gull in winter plumage, photographed this past December in Italy.)
Stop using the Bible to justify discrimination!
Yesterday, as their contribution to LGBT Pride Month, the Catholic Church rejected that people can be intersex or transgender by issuing a bigoted document called “Male and Female He Created Them.” One thing followers of the Bible have failed to realize is that people are better educated today and more likely to do a little […]
Whipsnake
Marty’s photo of the day #2918: This is a whipsnake—quite harmless—that I photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Iceberg portal
Marty’s photo of the day #2917: Today we go artsy again, with a photo I took looking through an iceberg to a mountain on Antarctica.
Western Tanager
Marty’s photo of the day #2916: What is the most colorful bird found in Montana? My vote is for the western tanager. My writing room is on the second floor, and it has a window wall facing the mountains. Not a day goes by that some bird flying by doesn’t distract me from my work. […]
Every country has its unique problems
Marty’s photo of the day #2915: Every country has its unique problems. In America, it’s a cult leader president with a narcissistic personality disorder, gun fetishes, and the fear of assertive women; and in Australia it’s wallabies insisting on a pool-water chaser after drinking their bottle of wine.
Green Iguana
Marty’s photo of the day #2914: Here’s another photo from my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico. It’s a green iguana, photographed in Puerto Rico.
Zermatt, Switserland
Marty’s photo of the day #2913: This is the town of Zermatt, Switzerland. I took this photo from what was essentially the foot of the Matterhorn.
The intrepid wife
Marty’s photo of the day #2912: When my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, came out, and national reviewers read about Deb’s and my adventures racing a flash flood in Borneo, swimming with piranhas in the Amazon Rainforest, and surviving a hippo attack in Zimbabwe, they all settled on a common […]
Humpback whale
Marty’s photo of the day #2911: Here’s a humpback whale that I photographed off the coast of Antarctica. The whale was roughly 45 feet long.
Canadian porcupine
Marty’s photo of the day #2910: I haven’t posted a Canada photo recently, so here’s a porcupine photo from Deb’s and my adventure to the top of Canada, for the North American chapter in my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents.
From the deep dark rainforest of Borneo
Marty’s photo of the day #2909: While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I were only the third outsiders to backpack with the Iban (a reformed headhunting tribe) across a special section of Borneo’s rainforest. You can read about our adventure in my book, so I […]
Brown Pelicans
Not just Dr. Evil, evil
There are many similarities between Donald Trump and evil dictators. I noticed one this week, when reports surfaced that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea had his special envoy to the United States, Kim Hyok Chol, executed because of last February’s failed summit with Trump. Coincidentally, White House staffers made sure the warship USS […]
Bottlenose Dolphin
Marty’s photo of the day #2907: Today’s bottlenose dolphin photo is from my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
Fred the Eyelash Viper
Marty’s photo of the day #2906: Today’s photo is from my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico. You are looking at Fred the Eyelash Viper. He lived on a large leaf just outside the front door of the cabin Deb and I rented in […]
Lake Garda
Marty’s photo of the day #2905: Today we go a little artsy with a photo I took on Lake Garda in northern Italy. “Lago di Garda” is often is often associated with the arts, as it has a history of attracting artists, poets, and directors.
Swimming with curious sea lions
Marty’s photo of the day #2904: The other night Deb and I watched one of the BBC Planet Earth specials, where divers were swimming with sea lions off the coast of Alaska. That, of course, reminded me of our similar experience in the Sea of Cortez, and I had to dig up a photo that […]