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Brutus the Iguana

Brutus the Iguana

Marty’s photo of the day #4479: Greetings from Bonaire! Today, Deb and I drove to the quiet side of the island and spent the day at Washington-Slagbaai National Park. The park contains a maze of rough gravel roads, giving our rental truck the workout it deserved. I hadn’t driven a manual transmission since growing up […]

Greetings From Miami

Greetings From Miami

Marty’s photo of the day #4477: Greetings from Miami! Yesterday, Deb and I started our two-day trip to the island of Bonaire to celebrate our 40th anniversary. We flew from Missoula to Dallas to Miami. In Miami, we had a 12-hour layover, so we stayed in a hotel at the airport. Hopefully, our luggage spent […]

Dragonfly From the Pond

Dragonfly From the Pond

Marty’s photo of the day #4471: The dragonflies have had a prosperous summer, eating mosquitos at the seasonal pond on the lower level of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Last night, this dragonfly flew to the upper level, where my outside office is, and said, “Please, I can’t eat anymore. I must rest!” This is a […]

Desert Tortoise

Desert Tortoise

Marty’s photo of the day #4468: In 2013, I was on a college speaking tour that provided me with two days off along the Arizona-California border. I made use of those days by exploring the Mojave National Preserve. The MNP is basically seldom-visited desert, with scattered mountains. My best find was this magnificent desert tortoise, […]

Orangutan in the Wild

Orangutan in the Wild

Marty’s photo of the day #4465: I shot this orangutan photo back in 2003, when digital photography was still relatively new. I had purchased a Nikon camera for my Borneo trip that promised to be the best of its class. The camera arrived just before I left the United States, and I didn’t have much […]

Not Quite JD Vance Weird

Not Quite JD Vance Weird

Marty’s photo of the day #4464: Sometimes, if you take enough photos, you’ll get some weird shots. Not JD Vance weird, of course, nothing is that weird. But weird, nonetheless. This is an American oystercatcher that I photographed along the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Obviously, owls aren’t the only birds that can turn their […]

Coqui frog

Coqui frog

Marty’s photo of the day #4462: Coqui frog, photographed in Puerto Rico. This photo also appears in my four-time award-winning book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.

Pearl Jam Concert Selfie

Pearl Jam Concert Selfie

Marty’s photo of the day #4459: The Pearl Jam concert family selfie. From back to front: Deb (wife), Me (husband of wife), Sean (son of husband and wife), Annie (the Oh. My. God! she wasn’t even born when Pearl Jam was formed, girlfriend of the son of the husband and wife). Photographed in Missoula, Montana.

Politics With Pearl Jam

Politics With Pearl Jam

Marty’s photo of the day #4458: So, I must admit that I was torn last night. Many months ago, I bought tickets for Deb (wife), Sean (son), and me to attend the Pearl Jam concert in Missoula. But last night also turned out to be Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech, which I really wanted to see. […]