Marty’s photo of the day #4298: Montana! Sure, half the population believes in wild conspiracy theories and wants to take human rights back to the 1800s, but we also have this.
Montana!
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Year: 2023
Moore moose
Marty’s photo of the day #4297: A few weeks ago, I shared a story and photos of a bull and pregnant cow moose that were visiting the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Here’s another of the bull from that photoshoot. He’s a big boy! With any luck, I’ll be able to photograph the babies (moose often have […]
Torrejón el Rubio, Spain
Marty’s photo of the day #4296: This is the Spanish town of Torrejón el Rubio. Some photos speak for themselves; others need a storyteller. So I’m going to be the storyteller for this one. The following comes from my sixth book, Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer: By the time […]
Yellowstone all alone
Marty’s photo of the day #4295: The challenge at Yellow National Park is to get away from the tourists as quickly as possible. Deb and I accomplished that on a magical day, where we hiked into an area we had to ourselves, along with a herd of bison backed by a beautiful waterfall.
Calliandra
Marty’s photo of the day #4294: This is a species of calliandra that I photographed in the wet tropical forest of Belize. While they don’t actually provide their own light, the first time I saw one it reminded me of a plug-in fiber optic Christmas tree.
Amazon River water taxi
Marty’s photo of the day #4293: This is a water taxi that goes up and down the Amazon River. If you blow the picture way up, you can see that it is overflowing with people. Not my idea of fun ride! (Photographed in Peru)
Comin’ right at ya!
Marty’s photo of the day #4292: Here’s a humpback whale, comin’ right at ya! (Photographed off the coast of Antarctica)
ANWR at night
Marty’s photo of the day #4291: I shot this photo well after midnight, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. Yes, this is as dark as it gets up there in late June.
So much character!
Marty’s photo of the day #4290: I love photographing brown pelicans. They have so much character! I photographed this bunch on a tiny island in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico).
Pileated woodpecker
Marty’s photo of the day #4289: Pileated woodpecker, photographed at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, Montana.
Saddleback caterpillar
Marty’s photo of the day #4288: It’s a saddleback caterpillar. Don’t touch! (Photographed on the island of Borneo)
Heliconia
Iceberg close-up
Dall sheep, doing their thing
Marty’s photo of the day #4285: To fully appreciate this photo, you’ll need a screen bigger than what’s on a typical smartphone. These are Dall sheep (also called thinhorn sheep) on a sheer mountainside. Photographed north of the Arctic Circle, in Alaska.
Spring preview
Marty’s photo of the day #4284: Here’s a spring preview shot, for all those who can’t wait for it to come around. (Photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana)
Elephants at sunset
Chinstrap penguin
Marty’s photo of the day #4282: Chinstrap penguin, photographed on an island off the coast of Antarctica.
The brunch show
Marty’s photos of the day #4279-4781: Today, I’m featuring three pictures from my weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee: 1. This morning I performed Around the World in 50 Minutes for the Parent’s Weekend Brunch at Southern Adventist University. Meal shows are usually death. For those of you who have watched the Amazon Prime series, The Marvelous […]
Meeting Jeff Strand
Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee! I’ve just returned to my hotel room after a delightful dinner with Jeff Strand and his wife, Lynne Hansen. For those who don’t know who Jeff Strand is, he is the master of a fairly obscure genre, called horror/comedy. I write in an equally obscure genre that I call science-fiction/political-comedy, so […]
Yellow-headed blackbird
Marty’s photo of the day #4278: Yellow-headed blackbird, photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.