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Marty’s photo of the day #4158: This was Deb’s and my first campsite, along the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. At night, the hippos came on shore and roared—just a stone’s throw away from our tents. And joining them were lions roaring, elephants trumpeting, and hyenas whooping!
Marty’s photo of the day #4157: Navigating through the Iceberg Graveyard, along the coast of Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #4155: This is my wife, Deb, trying to join a gentoo penguin colony off the coast of Antarctica. I think they’ve accepted her!
Marty’s photo of the day #4154: I will use a short excerpt from my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, to explain this shot: Even though we were hundreds of miles away from any significant landmass, our Drake Passage voyage was never boring. I spent much of my time outside on […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4153: I shot this photo at about two in the morning. It’s June, and at will be light all night. You’re looking at the sun hitting the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a storm moves in.
Marty’s photo of the day #4152: Sometimes it’s fun to photograph animals that are so common that few people give them a second thought, and show them in an interesting way. I think I accomplished that here.
Marty’s photo of the day #4151: A ten-and-a-half foot-long African rock python. Photographed in Zimbabwe.
Marty’s photo of the day #4150: Here’s some cuteness to start your week—a black bear cub, visiting the Essen Wildlife Refuge.
Marty’s photos of the day #4129+++: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert pictures. I seldom post more than one photo each day, but today I’m posting a shitload of Halestorm photos from May 30, 2022, at the KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner, Montana (just outside of […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4128: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert pictures. I have been a Joan Jett fan since I was the only kid in my high school with all The Runaways albums, and back when I was a partner in my first […]
Marty’s photos of the day #4124-4127: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife pictures to post some of my favorite concert photos. Today’s photos are from two separate Melissa Etheridge concerts. The first was outdoors, in 2017, at the KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner, MT (bottom two photos); the second was indoors, in 2019, at […]
Marty’s photos of the day #4121-4123: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert photos. Today’s photos are of Within Temptation in Milan, Italy. Yes, my wife, Deb, and I actually flew to Italy to see a concert! This short excerpt from my book, Hits, Heathens, and […]
Marty’s photos of the day #4118-4120: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert photos. Today’s photos are of . . . “Do I have to say his Name?” On November 28, 2012, Deb and I took our son, Sean, to see Bruce Springsteen at the Rose […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4117: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert photos. Today’s photo is of Shirley Manson of the band Garbage, taken July 14, 2017. The concert was outdoors at the Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater near Boise, Idaho, and the temperature at the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4116: This week I’m taking a break from wildlife photos to post some of my favorite concert photos. Today’s photo is of Grace Potter at the Wilma, in Missoula, in 2016. My radio station connections (thanks to Robert Chase of the Trail-FM!) got Deb and me in for a special […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4115: This is a small section of a twelve-foot-tall termite mound in Zimbabwe.
Marty’s photo of the day #4113: “See! I can swim upside down!” Snorkeling with sea lions in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).
Marty’s photo of the day #4112: For part of my time on the island of Borneo, I stayed in a cabana at the edge of a rainforest, while Deb scuba dived off a smaller island. A short distance away was the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. After dark, I headed out on my own for a […]
