Marty’s photo of the day #4570: Bats, photographed inside a tiny abandoned farmhouse in Costa Rica.
Bats in Costa Rica
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Inside the tree
Marty’s photo of the day #4709: This is a rather confusing photo, until you know what it is. While hiking in Zimbabwe, I came across a huge old tree with a hole in its side. I wanted to know if anything was living in the tree, so I stuck my camera inside (with the flash […]
The snake bat-catcher
Marty’s photo of the day #3858: I took this photo on a dark, rainy night in Puerto Rico (that’s why there are a few water spots on the lens). I am standing at the entrance to a large cave that angles sharply down into the slippery rocks, trying not to fall in. What you are […]
Coyote Camp
Marty’s photos of the day #3744-3747: My favorite of the three places Deb, Nellie, and I stayed at in the American Prairie Reserve was a yurt on the western side. The yurt didn’t have running water, but it still felt luxurious compared to our previous two stays. Our yurt had three sections: one section had […]
Bats don’t like baths
Marty’s photo of the day #3320: Bats do not like baths! Every summer, I move my office/writing room out onto the front porch. (The porch runs the width of the house and is covered, but not screened in.) This year the flies were a bit pesky, so two days ago my wife, Deb, bought me […]
Bats and Boas
Marty’s photo of the day #2989: This is not a particularly high quality photo, because as I’m taking it, I’m standing in the dark, in slippery bat guano, in a rainstorm, at the edge of a deep pit. But what I’m watching is one of nature’s great spectacles. Puerto Rican boas are hanging from the […]
Bat Welcoming Committee
My final Adam West tribute
Marty’s photo of the day #2219: Batman, coming through Barbara’s window: “We would have entered the building by more conventional means, but we didn’t want to startle the tenants.”