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 (23)
Valerie-Ducom
wowwwwwwww, impressiv capture!!! Excellent work!!! Good day and kisssssssss
Cosme..D..Churruca
Fantastic with that backaground... and confused about the number of wings. Superb Troy !
Georges_H_Hoens
Hi Troy, happy to meet you again. What a marvelous Dragon shot. This deep blue is astonishing and the contrast between the fellow and the background is perfect! Great macro my friend.
lafayette
Fanstatic the wings! it's a super macro!
spselfr
excellent macro
Nath06
Perfect macro ,it's really fantastic!!! Bravo Troy and have a good week-end :)
jcv2
Ha ha, no time for proper research, that sounds all too recognisable to me! ;) Gorgeous work, Troy, crisp capture of this blue dragonfly!
rayburg
Nice bit of work here capturing that blue-dragon..
girsempa
Makes me think of old fossilized tablets, except for the blue parts. I love the background as much as the dragonfly... and the shadows. Wonderful shot!
SNAKEY
Well........ its my time to surprise now........ I have never seen a blue dragon before....... AWesome:))
logiloglu
fantastic details. an impressive macro photography. just perfect,my friend ! TOP NOTCH #:O)
rainbows
Oh yes, superb capture. Beautiful :-) Agree with Geert on background and shadows! Sublime work, my friend.
GiMi53
Argh, I ca't wait to go hunting for dragonflies around the pound ! This one is unknown in our country/continent (?) but beautiful ! Excellent capture, Troy ! :~)
GBCalls
Never could I tire of viewing art. Excellent work!
NekhbetSun
Oh Troy, you're just such a whiner....NOT LOL ...around where I live I see a lot of these blue dragonflies...oh, and btw, the scientific name is "dragonfly-us blue-us" :o)...but seriously, you know this is a fabulously beautiful capture....great detail !!!! XOX
redchilicat
Wow! This shot is stunning!!!! I hope nobody gets tired of bug photos!!!! ;-)
kimariehere
Beautiful capture love its blue colors !!....DOHhhhh i STILL havnt gotten a dragon fly yet no not one ( or butterfly ) ... on my list of things to do !!
Richardphotos
I never get tired of taking bug pics or seeing them. especially when they are dragon flies. outstanding macro Troy
fourbanger
fine macro of this blue critter.I think he likes having his picture taken pose real nice.Have a great day
slawa
i love how you can see a shadow of those thin wings on the wood
glennn23
Great capture! Love the dragonfly placement against the rustic backdrop! +++
PeeWee05
Excellent shot! Love the wings!
cannonn
I felt splendor and a mystery of creation of God powerfully thank you vey much