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 (21)
ModestyB
WOW!!!!! Impressive :) Reminds me of Alfred's scary movie ;)
Zacko
This is soooooo cool! Agree with Modesty...."The Birds" do come in mind. It has to be hundred of thousands of em. WOW!!!! AWESOME CAPTURE TROY!!! Have a great sunday pal! #:O)
Luka_30
Yes, impresive!
4Dream
So cool! Reminds me of Hitchcok!
soulofharmony
Oh my gosh all those starlings.. amazing display.. wowwww love the moodiness of the sky.. awesome:)
ERMITA
Impressive! I'm sure you was delighted on taking these photo! Superb, my friend!!!
mommavelvet9999
Dang Troy! I would have been freaking out if I was to see all those starlings! Stephen King!
Richardphotos
I have seen them this way here but was always driving and no camera. incredible capture. you was in the right place!
NekhbetSun
Hope you were standing under an umbrella Troy :o)...another great shot...love the colours !
miladyblu
Hello!!Simply a terrific and spectacular shot!!You are really a big artist with an extraordinary ability to capture all these birds in flight! A really exceptional photo!Really well done!Excellent work my dear friend!!V!!I wish you a happy sunday and a wonderful new week!A big hug!
jcv2
Oh wow, that beats Hollywood completely with all their rendering machines to render frame after frame - this is real, tens of thousands of stirlings flying simultaneously, what an impressive vista! Excellent work, Troy! :)
Punaguy
Look like one of those shoot and run for it situations...opportune catch here, amazing! Aloha!
nathalie06
Brrrrrrrrrrrr terrific and wonderful !!! I was impressed by your previous shot, but this one.... Never seen that before ! Really an invasion of Starlings, who make a dark sky. Fantastic Troy !!!! This one must gone at the top of the "hot 20" !!!!! V
Valentin
This is an incredibly beautiful photo! outstanding done!!
Nath06
Fantastic and outstanding shot!!! Bravo :)
redchilicat
Wow this looks even more like a scene from The Birds than the last one. Those dark clouds add to the menacing mood. Excellent shot!
Loloe
Wow!!!Incredible shot! I would have been scared (I was too young when I saw "The Birds" I'm traumatized! lol)Great job Troy!!!!Bravo and v
DigiArts
Very impressive shot! That's amazing.
Cosme..D..Churruca
Alucinante ! Fantastic capture !
ShadowsNTime
As usual your right on target eye! Wow Troy, amazing photo! Salt and pepper:-) I saw an image today that had an overlay like this to give the viewer the perspective of viewing from above the stars..how do they fly so close together without bumping into each other and killing themselves? I mean its like pandemonium, brings to mind the pillow fight where the pillow breaks and the feathers fly! Awesome! Well done my friend!
dodgeart
Beautimous.