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)
morin3000
Magnifique landscape, reflection, and very creative realization Beautiful colors Excel ***** ((V))
NekhbetSun
Any minute now I'm expecting to see the Swamp Thing peekin' his head out...maybe even Bigfoot or that critter from the Black Lagoon heehee...I'm bein' silly, but this photo is gorgeous Troy, and wish I could give you more than one vote !!! XOX
girsempa
Wew, fantastic capture, Troy! The greens, the browns, the textures, the reflections... awesome! Just two remarks: the highlights are maybe a little too bright; and the border could be a little crispier and maybe in a slight color shift, or a bit darker...
Vik9740
gorgeous swampy scene.... and your framing suits it beautifully
glennn23
Fantastic display of greenery! One can only imagine the thousands of species that thrive in a place such as this! great capture Troy +++
Valerie-Ducom
incredible green landscape !!! Well done my dear for this one and perfectly lighting and color, BRAVO!!! Hugs and bisoussss
Zacko
Its so cool that you have such a rich wildlife. Ill trade you a couple of bears for those turtles....and perhaps a moose for a snake or two. Huh? How does that sound? Sick of those furry bastards running around scaring little Eija. Have a wonderful day bro. #:O)
marybelgium
beautiful shades of green ...
Cosme..D..Churruca
Genial... the reflection is perfect, no bubles, just still water. Love it !
lafayette
Superb this scene Troy, wonderful light, colors and reflections! Have a great evening
sossy
the reflection here complete the chaos of this place! a wild and natural scene! ;o)
jcv2
Oh wow, incredible to see this wonderful swamp, you show so many fascinating locations! Excellent work, Troy!
wildgoha
and filled with you ! ;-) Troy what a special places you have there ;-) and friends !
teoratiu
wild, wild, wild and wonderful
rainbows
Beautiful, my friend! Just love these greens. Gonna sit here a spell and chill! Superb photography. Hugs.
Nath06
Wonderful green capture and reflections ,it's beautiful!!! Bravo and have a good day Troy :)
Loloe
Wow!!! Fantastic lighting and colors! Superb!!! Bravo Troy !!! big hugs.
Lledeline
Wonderful landscape
soulofharmony
love the naturalness of the enviroment caught here refelctions.. and ekkk!!! snakes..dont like those..brr !!! excellent Troy.. hugsss:)
Richardphotos
lets go and gig some frogs. no just joking, have no desire to kill or eat frogs. I will be looking with anticipation of your pano