Marty’s photo of the day #4460: I don’t often use a tripod for photography, but when I do, it’s a butterfly landing pad. (Juno longwing butterfly, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.)
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Platyhelminthe
Marty’s photo of the day #4456: This is a Platyhelminthe, sometimes known as a terrestrial flatworm, an Amazon flatworm, a slime worm, or simply a JD. Photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Amazon River Floodplains
Yagua Children
Marty’s photo of the day #4786: Yagua children out for a paddle in the flooded Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
The Amazon River
Marty’s photo of the day #4765: This photo should give you a taste of how massive the Amazon River is. And this spot—in Peru—is certainly not the widest spot.
Attack of the Pipe Cleaner Spiders
Marty’s photo of the day #4763: If I was making a cheesy horror movie, I would spend a week in the Amazon Rainforest, looking for scary creatures I could enlarge. This one—that I photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru—would be a great candidate for The Attack of the Pipe Cleaner Spiders!
Greeting the Amazon tree boa
Marty’s photo of the day #4717: This is me, saying hi to a baby Amazon tree boa in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Velvet swampsnake
Whipsnake
Poison dart frog
Walking stick
The untouched first book cover photo
Marty’s photo of the day #4620: For my final picture of the year, I’m posting the untouched photo for the cover of the First Edition of my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. That’s a tailless whip scorpion on my face, and my wife, Deb, shot the photo in the Amazon […]
Paddling in the rainy season
Marty’s photo of the day #4597: During the rainy season, in the Amazon Rainforest, much—but not all—of the land floods. In this photo, my wife, Deb, is paddling her dugout through a portion of the forest where we had walked when we were there during the dry season. And the water varied between three and […]
Young spectacled caiman
Marty’s photos of the day #4567: This is a young spectacled caiman, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Poison Dart Frog
Marty’s photo of the day #4552: Greetings from North Carolina! I’m here this week performing two “Around the World in 50 Minutes” shows at Davidson-Davie Community College. Today’s show was at the smaller campus. Usually satellite campus shows feature small crowds, so I was thrilled to fill up two side-by-side conference rooms with roughly 100 […]
Amazon tree boa
Polka-dot tree frog
Marty’s photo of the day #4463: This is a polka-dot tree frog, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Walkingstick
Spectacled caiman
Marty’s photo of the day #4358: I photographed this young spectacled caiman in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru. If she survives into adulthood, she could reach eight-feet in length.
Kids having a blast
Marty’s photo of the day #4357: This is one of my favorite photos from my first trip to Peru. I was in Iquitos and went for a walk after a rainstorm. I spotted these children playing with a soccer ball in a flooded street―just having a blast. When I aimed my camera, the children spotted […]