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 (22)
Black_Fingernails
no idea lol but he looks freaky! great shot
vlaaitje
what a strange insect...never seen this one...not yet......lo vely catch
jinet
Very elegant macro !
teoratiu
Nice capture!
mooreno
May Fly trout love them/some places they cover the rivers in great hordes.
tmathise
A Mayfly huh? Thanks David, I appreciate it!
Valerie-Ducom
I'm affraid for this one!!!!! LOL... Very good capture my friend and perfectly color ;) good day and kiss
GBCalls
Harmless to handle. You have one of hundreds of species of Mayfly. They have a very short lifespan. Excellent capture
fourbanger
Another superb macro presentation.You sure do a great job with these.God made all these creatures so folks like you and me and others here could shot them for folks enjoyment.Have a good day.Vote
jared99
That is one weird looking bug. But an absolutely fantastic shot!
Onslow
Nice shot - well done !
jcv2
Hm, maybe a cicade or something like that? This one leaves me puzzled. Terrific work, Troy!
Cosme..D..Churruca
Superb macro ! And what a subject !
Richardphotos
outstanding macro Troy and I had no idea as to the name. very beautiful insect
Nath06
Superb macro!!! Bravo :)
pm_hackworth
I knew the bugs are us crew would know what it was. They always help me out cause I know squat about bugs. Love this capture. VOTE
girsempa
Very beautiful and interesting shot! I hadn't seen this insect before, at least not so close... It certainly makes a very nice composition! Wonderful and amazing capture, Troy!
Punaguy
I was going to say May fly as I have done some trout fishing with these type of flys...trout do love them...excellent macro of this strange looking fly! Aloha!
Simon_P
Fantastic capture.
maggiemai
May flys are so tiny and you have captured an amazing macro of this one! So much detail ...I can see this one better than I can see one in real life!! LOL Bravo!! Excellent photo! :-) VOTE
GiMi53
Excellent macro of this very interesting insect ! Great work, Troy ! :~)
Traligill
this is beautiful!!!!