Marty’s photo of the day #4444: I photographed this porcupine in the Yukon Territory while working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents.
Yukon Porcupine
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Caribou by Canoe
Marty’s photo of the day #4443: I photographed this caribou while canoeing across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Nellie and the River
Marty’s photo of the day #4442: Nellie looks like a black lab, but she’s actually half golden retriever and half Australian cattle dog/dingo. When Deb and I adopted her, she didn’t want to have a thing to do with water. But eventually her golden retriever side won out over her Australian side. Now she loves […]
A Pretty Fox
Marty’s photo of the day #4441: Here’s another motion-sensing camera shot from last week on the Essen Wildlife Refuge. This fox lives on the lower level of the refuge, frequently passing by the camera near the seasonal pond.
The Talking Elk
Marty’s photo of the day #4440: Here’s a motion-sensing camera shot from last week on the Essen Wildlife Refuge. The “talking elk” made me laugh and think of some of the weird Republicans on TV with their lip injections.
Humpback Whale
Amazon River Floodplains
Victoria Falls
Mounted Baby Heads
Marty’s photo of the day 4436: This is the Cathedral of Plasencia (Catedral vieja de Plasencia), located in Plasencia, Spain, built in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. When in Europe, I enjoy touring old churches. They all feature spectacular architecture, albeit a bit scary. If you enlarge this photo, you will see dozens of baby heads, mounted […]
Orangutan on Borneo
Pelican Wings
Marty’s photo of the day 4434: I photographed this brown pelican several years ago, along the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. The colors aren’t as vibrant as I’d like them to be, as the sun had set, and I really had to push my camera to create anything usable in the twilight. Still, I just […]
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Marty’s photo of the day 4433: When I was in Costa Rica, I saw this bird for maybe two seconds before it took off. So this photo isn’t as crisp as what I usually post. Nevertheless, it was a new bird sighting for me. It’s a scarlet-rumped tanager.
Cape Buffalo
Marty’s photo of the day 4432: This is a Cape buffalo, photographed while backpacking across Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe.
Four Years With Nellie
Marty’s photos of the day #4827-4831: On this date, four years ago, Deb and I adopted Nellie from the Bitter Root Humane Association. She was a stray, approximately 10 months old, weighing just 42 pounds. She now weighs 63 pounds, which is down from a peak of 70 pounds, after three months of inactivity due […]
A final prairie dog
Marty’s photo of the day #4826: I’m concluding my series of photos from early July in the American Prairie with one more prairie dog.
Burrowing Owl
Marty’s photo of the day #4825: This is a burrowing owl, photographed earlier this month in the American Prairie (formerly the American Prairie Reserve), Montana.
Dogs and cactus
Marty’s photo of the day #4824: The prickly pear cactuses were in bloom at the American Prairie earlier this month. Our dog, Nellie, has accompanied my wife and me on all three of our American Prairie visits. The first visit was nerve-racking for me, because I was constantly worried that Nellie would step on a […]
We Can See For Miles
Marty’s photo of the day #4823: Nellie and me, without another dog or person anywhere, for miles and miles. Well, except for my wife, Deb, who was sitting next to us, and Nellie’s cousins, the coyotes, who are out there, somewhere. Photographed in the American Prairie (formerly the American Prairie Reserve), Montana.
The Killer Rabbit
Marty’s photo of the day #4822: This rabbit sat in a brush pile outside the yurt my wife and I rented in the American Prairie. That yurt had a window facing the brush pile, which was at our dog, Nellie’s, eye-level. Therefore, Nellie felt it necessary to incessantly warn me, “Dad! Dad! There’s a killer […]
Showy milkweed
Marty’s photo of the day #4821: This is showy milkweed, photographed earlier this month in the American Prairie (formerly the American Prairie Reserve), Montana.