Marty’s photo of the day #5011: I shot this yellow-billed stork photo in Zimbabwe twenty-two years ago. Although my current books are fiction, my first two books, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents and Endangered Edens, were nonfiction, featuring photos and stories of Deb’s and my adventures as we traveled the world looking […]
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Galapagos Sea Lion Greeting
Marty’s photo of the day #4956: Deb and I are on our way home from an adventure in the Galapagos Islands that exceeded our expectations. I shot thousands photos of the amazing wildlife and am sorting through them on our long flights to Montana. This incredibly cute sea lion greeted us on one of our […]
The instant pond
Marty’s photo of the day #4779: At the Essen Wildlife Refuge (i.e. the 25 protected-for-wildlife acres where my wife and I live) we have an upper and lower level. The lower level is lush forest with a seasonal pond. Since we moved to Montana, in 1996, that pond has filled itself every spring and emptied […]
Danger, danger, danger!
Marty’s photo of the day #4394: While I’m always respectful of animals, sometimes being a wildlife photographer/writer doesn’t go as planned. Over the years, I’ve been stung by the world’s most venomous insect, bitten by a venomous snake, and attacked by a hippo (the hippo bit through the center of Deb’s and my canoe and […]
The red-tailed hawk surprise
Marty’s photo of the day #4191: Some mornings, I have a plan on what to post for my photo of the day. Other mornings, I just open folders of my photos that I’ve saved to my computer and look for one that speaks to me. Many times those instantly selected photos surprise me: “Oh, I […]
A ground squirrel vs the far-right
Marty’s photo of the day #3547: “Let me get this straight: You don’t believe DDT harms wildlife; you don’t believe humans cause global warming; you don’t believe masks help stop the spread of COVID-19, yet you do believe that your god will soon reinstall Donald Trump as president. Isn’t that kind of like a ground […]





