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 (11)
lgp692000
I had one of them take a chunk out of my thumb while trying to get it out of the road. I much prefer now to see them at a distance. Nice shot and title.
glennn23
This is a very enjoyable composition Troy! The shot from distance really works well with the clouds - excellent work +++
claudialee
Wow!! Darn, I didn't know that these little guys could fly. A little like 'when pigs fly!' ~ but why not, the cow jumped over the moon. Great shot. Hugs!!!!
Valerie-Ducom
hey, a big turtle no? ezcellent capture my dear.. Very good shot... good day and kiss ;)
jcv2
Ha ha, the turtles are flying low these days! LOL! Fantastic work, great find!
Cosme..D..Churruca
Superb ! Like it so very much, brilliant Troy !
Margana
LOL I like your idea.Cool-looking capture.
Richardphotos
your title sounds like a title to a song by Elton John. "diamonds in the sky". everytime I get close to a turle they take a dive
girsempa
Just thinking of Marlene's trivia in her last upload.. about the turtle breathing ;-) Wonderful inventive capture of this turtelonimbus! ;-)
Traligill
not weird, brilliant!!! Love it!
maggiemai
ROFL at the comments here! I sure don't want to be standing right under one of these big flyin turtles.. hehe Excellent capture of the reflection and Mr. Turtle though... he's a fine looking fellow and I'm sure he'll beat the hare even faster now that he can fly through the clouds. :-) V