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 (30)
squirrel2005
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!! This is definitive your best upload today!!! GOD it's awesome macro!!!!! Very interesting bug...Excellent!!!!
Lledeline
You can go on. Not boring at all. Great macro.
GiMi53
Again, today my choice among your 3 pictures is this fantastic macro ! Excellentissime photo, Troy ! :~)
lafayette
Hello Troy, you love the macro, and this is an beautiful exemple! Have you seen the other fantastic macro of Georges Hoens? have a nice day
Zacko
FREAKING BRILLIANT BRO!!! This is definitly my favorite. Soooooo impressive!!! The details are amazing. They sure look angry dont they. One more upload to go.....
NekhbetSun
Yep, you better steer clear :o) excellent excellent work V N HUGS
CDBrugg
v nice work :-))
wildgoha
What about you ? hmm? Troy how is your day ? You always make a good wishes - I hope it all back to you too ! if the day with monsters can be good==== you have very incredible day ;-D Princess WildGoha
rayburg
Another great trifecta of pictures and I really like this one a lot...awesome macro ...
moochagoo
Impressive picture...
Margana
Brrrrrrrrrr....Get any closer?Um,noooo thank you.That's close enough!LOL...Fabulous capture,Troy.The detail and quality is outstanding.Awesome work,My friend!Bravo for this amazing shot and also for your most remarkable bravery!Have a wonderful Thursday and Memorial day weekend!-M :^)
Valerie-Ducom
wowwwwwwwwwwww, excellent capture my friend!!! Perfectly color and lighting too!!! Well done.. Good day and kiss ;)
marybelgium
excellent macro shot !
glennn23
Fantastic composition here! Detail and color are amazing enough to cause a little nervousness from the viewing! excellent work +++
jinet
Impressive shot, excellent image !
Georges_H_Hoens
Hornet! my fav. I still admire them even if I was attacked a decade ago Result, 2 days hospital = a big anaphylactic choc! Their bites are really painful, very much more than a wasp. But thei're so beautiful, so magestic, so perfect. Yes I admire them for what they are! Fantastic shot dear Troy! Have a great night, G.
Richardphotos
much more impressive than the previous. you really got in their business on this one
Cosme..D..Churruca
Impressive indeed... terrifying creature !
cynlee
ditto!
Wire
This one looks even sweeter then the one on the former picture!
Nath06
Perfect macro and very impressive!!! Bravo Troy and have a good day :)
Dianthus
Brilliant macro:)
soulofharmony
outstanding macro troy... perfect details and quality.. superb hugsssss:) the psychology of nature..
danob
Another cracker Troy you should do more of this type of work buddy you have a real flair for it
vlaaitje
I agree with Danob...such a gorgeous shot
teoratiu
fantastic wasp
Chaos911
wow, fantastic shot!!!! i love it!!!! :)
crypticghost
would not want to be stung by that guy, wow, what a fascinating creature, and you captured him just perfect.. wow, thanks for sharing.
dodgeart
It may be hard for us bipeds to understand this, but wasps are often beneficial. Cool image Troy. bzzzzzzzzt.
DJB
You are flirting with disaster here. What a brilliantly in focus shot. i can do this close when they eat a piece of fruit on the lawn, because they are drunk and do not seem to mind. Good job Troy.