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Marty’s photo of the day #4533: During the 2016 Presidential Election season, President Bill Clinton came to little Stevensville, Montana (15 miles away from where I live) to campaign on a flatbed trailer for Hillary Clinton. The 2024 Presidential Election season—forced by the realities of the outdated Electoral College—meant Montana received no such Democratic presidential […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4527: This photo, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is my response to the crude and bigoted comments about the island at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Fascist Fuckfest. I captured the image while in Puerto Rico working on my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa […]
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.
Marty’s photo of the day #4789: Puerto Rico has a population of 3.26 million people. That’s a lot for an island that’s only 110 miles long and 35 miles wide. Even so, once you get away from the cities, it’s still possible to find lush rainforest, with no one around.
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 #4705: Once you get as far away from the cities and towns as possible, you can have Puerto Rico to yourself!
Marty’s photo of the day #4329: After canoeing across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Deb and I got to fly back over where we had been. I shot this photo from the window of our tiny airplane. Below, along the Jago River, was our first campsite, and the hill, “Bitty,” was our first-day climbing conquest. […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4052: Where the desert meets the water. Guanica cacti along the coast of Puerto Rico. This photo also appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
Marty’s photo of the day #4046: You are looking at a Hecale longwing butterfly that I photographed in Costa Rica. This photo also appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
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 […]
Marty’s photo of the day #3850: A Puerto Rican boa hangs out in a cave, waiting for a bat to fly by. Yes, these boas snatch bats right out of the air! (Photographed in Puerto Rico)
Marty’s photo of the day #3706: Look closely. This isn’t some tall waterfall that you could swim under. It’s a tiny, four-inch-high waterfall on a beach in Puerto Rico. Fun with macro photography!
Marty’s photo of the day #3688: This spider monkey photo appears in my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico.
Marty’s photo of the day #3649: If Republicans had balls, even one-billionth the size of these, we’d be well on our way to solving the global warming crisis and Donald Trump wouldn’t be starting up his white supremacist rallies again. So just remember: no matter what form the hot air comes in this summer, it’s […]
