Marty’s photo of the day #3540: Yeah, I used a telephoto lens for this. Still, it’s always exciting to be hiking and encounter a black bear.
Black bear close-up
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Year: 2021
Our feet tell the story
Marty’s photo of the day #3539: For those who have read my just released sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, this photo says a lot. I took it the day after Deb’s and my backpacking trip on the mountainous island of Borneo with the Iban tribe. When torrential […]
The widest curtain of water on earth
Marty’s photo of the day #3538: I took this photo from the co-pilot’s seat of a rickety little bush plane. You are looking at Victoria Falls, at the boarder of Zimbabwe and Zambia. It is the widest curtain of water on earth.
Osprey in flight
Martyman and the QAnon conspiracy theory
Marty’s photo of the day #3536: According to a QAnon conspiracy theory, which is believed by countless Republicans and Evangelical Christians, tomorrow (March 4th) Donald Trump will rise to power again. To that, Martyman—an action figure with more brainpower than anyone who believes anything from QAnon—says, “I’ve got Trump right here. And he isn’t rising […]
Johnny Jump Up
Marty’s photo of the day #3535: A Johnny Jump Up does its jump-up thing in Deb’s garden (several years ago).
Best of seven continents?
Marty’s photo of the day #3534: What was the highlight of my travels to all seven continents? That’s a tough one, because so many magical things happened. But spending two hours along Antarctica’s coast with three playful/curious humpback whales is hard to beat!
Great gray owl in flight
Marty’s photo of the day #3533: This is the great gray owl that hangs out in the trees below Deb’s and my house. The shot is a little soft, because it’s extremely difficult to catch an owl in flight in perfect focus. But hey, at least it’s in better focus than my Bigfoot photos.
Amazing iceberg!
Marty’s photo of the day #3532: This is one of the amazing icebergs I photographed along the coast of Antarctica.
The Wild West
Marty’s photo of the day #3531: One of the cool things about living in Montana is that once you get off the beaten path, it’s fairly common to find old abandon buildings from when the state was still part of the “Wild West.” I don’t remember where I found this one. I think it was […]
La Villa de Castrotorafe
Marty’s photo of the day #3530: For today’s post, we go all the way back to my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, for this short excerpt: Our goal for the day was to reach the town of Cangas de Onis near the Atlantic Ocean’s Bay of Biscay. Although we had […]
My romantic comedy wedding
Marty’s photo of the day #3529: The following excerpt from my newly published sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, takes place in northern Minnesota: Our ceremony could have been right out of a romantic comedy. On the lakeshore, in front of the cabin, is a round washing-machine-sized rock […]
Lizards think I’m ugly
Marty’s photo of the day #3528: The following excerpt from my newly published sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, takes place in Australia: I had decided to hike up every river within a ten-mile stretch of Queensland coast. Since all the rivers dropped down from the mountains, I […]
Drunk shopping
Marty’s photo of the day #3527: The following excerpt from my newly published sixth book, “Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer,” takes place in Cangas de Onís, Spain: Once we finished our excellent meal, the man from behind the bar walked over and introduced himself as Angel, one of the […]
What is it like to be attacked by a hippo?
Marty’s photo of the day #3526: What is it like to be attacked by a hippo? This excerpt from my newly published sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, will put you in the canoe with Deb and me. The adventure takes place in Zimbabwe: As the sun dropped […]
Defying death in Borneo
Marty’s photo of the day #3525: One of the chapters in my newly published sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer, follows Deb and me on a death-defying backpacking trip in Borneo with the Iban, a tribe once famous for headhunting. Here’s an excerpt from that chapter. Johnathan was […]
Dying before finishing would really piss me off
Marty’s photo of the day #3524: As an author, I can’t think of anything that would piss me off more than working for months and months on a book, only to die before it was published. Even if someone tries to finish the deceased author’s book (as has happened for some), it’s never as good […]
Nearing the tree line
Marty’s photo of the day #3523: I took this photo north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. As you can see, the tree line (where trees can no longer grow) is approaching. As I continued north, these scraggly trees would give way to tundra.
Amazing Dall sheep
Marty’s photo of the day #3522: I thought about cropping this photo, so you could see the Dall sheep better; then I thought better of it. The sight of these amazing animals on the steep rock face—especially the two that are away from the others—is what makes this photo. (Photographed north of the Arctic Circle, […]
Green tree frog, Australia
