Yup! What can I say? It seemed appropo to post a pic of myself here too.
BIO
Troy Mathisen
...began his professional career as a recording engineer in 1977.
Shortly thereafter, he expanded into providing concert sound-reinforcement and technical support services for many "internationally-renowned" performing artists.
After a couple years of doing concert sound around the Pacific Northwest, he moved to Hollywood California, to enhance his education and experience in audio and music recording and production, for the film, television and record industries.
After 5 years with Paramount Recording Studios as a technician and audio engineer, he began his education in computer music production and graphic design.
Two years later Troy was avidly educating himself in 3D modeling, rendering and animation development and production, while working as a recording engineer for Buena Vista Sound at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank California.
By 1990, he was working as a soundtrack composer and music producer, while obtaining an education in simulation and virtual reality technologies.
Two years later he was working extensively in video engineering and production, giving occasional dissertations to college students on virtual reality environment engineering and computer music development and production for film and video.
In 1995, Troy devoted his full time to learning Internet and web-based technologies.
By 1997, he was functioning as Director of Internet and Multimedia Development for a high-tech telecommunications firm in the bay-area of central California.
To this day Troy continues to design and build intelligent web application software and information distribution systems, as well as focusing as much time as possible on his two greatest loves - the arts and sciences.
Troy currently uses the following for creating visual media...
Software;
Apophysis 2.02
Blender 2.41
Chaoscope 0.2.1
ChaosPro 3.2
DeepPaint 2.0
Lightwave 8.5
PhotoImpact 8
Poser 6
Terragen v0.9
TrueSpace 6.6
VUE 5 Infinite
and others.
Cameras;
Canon Z135 Sure Shot
Nikon D50 Outfit
Olympus Camedia C-700UZ
Hardware;
Dell Inspiron 8500 Computer
HP Business InkJet 1200n Printer
HP PhotoSmart 8250 Printer
HP ScanJet 4370 Scanner
Comments (20)
mommavelvet9999
Very beautiful Troy. As usual. Don't any of those places creep you out ever? They would me. Great capture with lots and lots of detail.
Darthmagus
I like a lot this kind of places in winter (or without mosquitos). Beautiful shot!
soulofharmony
love the texture on of the leaves and moss on the trunk laying in the water on the left.. and purple glow of the trees gives it individuality..beautiful shot.. and unusal place..
Frisbee761
Southeastern boy here also. You have officially flung a craving on me to go photograph some of our local cypress swamps and sloughs.
NekhbetSun
Cool shot as usual...love the compo and the reflection of the trees in the water is great !
Zacko
Creepy looking swamp. I can only imagine how freaking cool it would look covered in fog. Please oh please go back there on a misty day for me, lol. Have a great day. #:O)
marybelgium
beautiful shot ...beautiful reflection !
dragonfly2000
Wetlands - very well done.
DELMUR
So cold! And creepy too.... but a beautifull pic!!
unike
Fantastic! The bright is excpecional! You are magician!!!
jcv2
Seems to me Huckleberry can travel long journeys here through the swamps! Wonderful capture, love the light here! Gorgeous work, Troy! :)
PhotoSmith
It's amazing how low the angle of light can be even at 2 during the depth of winter. Love the reflective surface you caught, the color and multitude of textures. Extremely well done!
Loloe
Excellent capture Troy! With mist it would certainly be creepy, but not now, the light is beautiful, I'd like to visit it! Bravo!!!
redchilicat
Beautiful! Love the mix of brown tones and the reflections. I too need to make more visits to my local nature parks, I live in a pretty swampy part of the world. :-)
Traligill
amazing clarity and that water and reflections are superb. The mix of tones and subtle colours is gorgeous!
cannonn
I felt love of the supremacy to this work powerfully
criss
A wonderful world of reflections! Superb!
drawlyzer
...professional sence for angle and light.
ShadowsNTime
You capture these really well, I am reminded of a small farm we had (10 acres) and at the lower end was a swamp...swamp cabbage..pretty to look at but OMG the smell, do they have that there? Love this hon (btw I do vote and rank, I just don't say so) I want no one to feel they have to do the same for me...Hugs ya!
dodgeart
Hard to keep up with your output/uploads...but I'm trying...Another fine swamp observation... Reminds me of the fact that we have few swamps/wetlands left in this part of Oregon and the ones that remain you would not want to dip a toe in, let alone fish in!