Day #2 of Seven Marty Essen Books in Seven Days, featured in order of publication. We continue with the four-time award-winning Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico. “Join photographer extraordinaire Marty Essen and his intrepid wife Deb on their adventures through four Endangered Edens. You’ll be […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4729: A storm is moving in. And it’s going to be the most beautiful storm. The best storm. In fact, it could be Stormy for the next several weeks.
Day #1 of Seven Marty Essen Books in Seven Days, featured in order of publication. We start with the six-time award-winning classic, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. “This is a wonderful book—a labor of love—that describes in soul-stirring language what it is like to live with the people, the animals, the birds, […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4726: Today I head back to Montana, following two fun shows in Illinois. Thanks to Lake Land College and Eastern Illinois University for booking me. Here’s one of the humorous shots from my show, Around the World in 90 Minutes. It’s me, at a tiny hotel in the Yukon Territory, […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4725: Greetings again from Illinois! Here’s another photo from Around the World in 90 Minutes. This is Annie, a black flying fox, photographed at a flying fox rehabilitation and breeding facility in Queensland, Australia. I have one more college show before flying back to Montana. Here’s where I’m performing tonight: […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4724: Greetings from Mattoon, Illinois! I shot today’s humpback whale photo off the coast of Antarctica, and it is featured in my two college shows, Around the World in 50 Minutes, and the second is Around the World in 90 Minutes. Here’s where I am performing this week: Wednesday, April […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4723: Greetings from Mattoon, Illinois! I have two shows coming up. The first is Around the World in 50 Minutes, and the second is Around the World in 90 Minutes: Wednesday, April 17, 11:00 a.m., Lake Land College, Mattoon, ILThursday, April 18, 6:00 p.m. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Today’s […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4721: I captured this somewhat grainy image with one of my motion-sensing cameras. For 28 years, my wife and I have protected our 25 acres as the Essen Wildlife Refuge. In the grand scale of Montana, our acreage is hardly anything. Nevertheless, people like us are sometimes castigated as greedy […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4720: That moment when you realize they’re gonna make you swim and discover that you were born with hooves, not fins.
Marty’s photo of the day #4718: Look closely. It’s a penguin colony on an island off the coast of Antarctica. Most of the penguins are gentoos, but some are Adélies.
Marty’s photo of the day #4717: This is me, saying hi to a baby Amazon tree boa in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Marty’s photo of the day #4716: When I write and post photos of Deb’s and my Zimbabwe expedition, they are usually from our backpacking trip across Mana Pools National Park. Sometimes I forget that we also spent a few days in Matusadona National Park. Highlights here were quietly sneaking up on a black rhino and […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4715: Here’s a shot from last September—a gray whale near Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #4714: I photographed this spotted bush snake in Zimbabwe. It’s a relatively close mimic of the deadly boomslang.
Marty’s photo of the day #4712: This year, Freezeout Lake (located 200 miles northeast of where I live, in Montana) featured one of those amazing snow geese migration stopovers. It seems that every time that happens, Deb or I are either traveling or in the midst of a project (this year Deb was teaching weaving […]
