Marty’s photo of the day #4889: This is a spectacled flying fox, photographed in Queensland, Australia.
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Australian Green Tree Frog
Apostlebird
Granny’s Cloak Moth
Marty’s photo of the day #4804: This is a granny’s cloak moth, photographed while exploring a cave in the Outback of Queensland, Australia.
Flying Fox Ambassador
Marty’s photo of the day #4786: “Hi! I’m Annie, a black flying fox. I live at a bat research center in northern Queensland, Australia. My job is to tell people how wonderful flying foxes are and to produce pups, which will be released into the wild. Now, I must get my beauty sleep.”
Spectacled Flying Fox
Frogmouth On My Shoulder
Marty’s photo of the day #4675: Here’s a photo from when I was in Australia, working on my first book, “Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents,” That’s Frog, a tawny frogmouth bird on my shoulder. Twenty-some years later, I’m still writing and have what could be the best adventure ever coming up later […]
Platypuses on Film
Marty’s photo of the day #4620: When I present my show, Around the World in 90 Minutes, at colleges, students often ask about the cameras I used. I tell them that I started with film cameras and was 100% digital by the end. Then I tell them how difficult it was to shoot platypuses in […]
It’s Time!
Marty’s photo of the day #4550: It’s three-forty. Time for me to hold the baby silver wallaroo! Photographed in Australia.
Hidden Aussie Waterfall
Marty’s photo of the day #4454: A hidden waterfall somewhere along the northern coast of Queensland, Australia.
Frogmouth Bird
JBL vs lace monitors
Marty’s photo of the day #4748: In the studio, I like JBL monitors, but in Australia, I prefer lace monitors.
Annie the black flying fox
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: […]
Aussie waterfall
Marty’s photo of the day #4711: A pretty little waterfall, hidden in the mountains, near the coast of northern Queensland, Australia.
Butterfly pea
Marty’s photo of the day #4696: I photographed this butterfly pea in a wet tropical forest in Australia. I don’t think it’s native to Australia, however.
Bat butt
Marty’s photos of the day #4577: When traveling in Australia, it’s always important to check twice before sitting down. You never know when you might have bat butt.
Laughable
Marty’s photos of the day #4567: This is a laughing kookaburra, photographed in Australia. Here’s what I wrote about these birds in my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents: Though not as stunning as the kingfishers or cockatoos, laughing kookaburras are handsome gray and white birds with a very famous call: […]
Bonnie the silver wallaroo
Marty’s photos of the day #4567: My wife, Deb, holding Bonnie, a baby silver wallaroo. (Photographed in Australia)
Platypus luck
Marty’s photo of the day #4451: When Deb and I traveled to Australia, one of our goals was to see a platypus. We had heard they were difficult to find, but we got lucky and saw multiple platypuses over multiple days. Photographing them was a different matter, however. They lived in a fairly wide section […]
Watching platypuses
Marty’s photo of the day #4450: Here’s an artsy photo I took of my wife, Deb, watching platypuses. After a 29 hour flight (including layovers) between Montana and Brisbane, Australia, then an in-country flight to Mackay, and then an hour-long drive, we arrived at the Broken River just a wee bit tired. Nevertheless, we were […]