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 (17)
Zacko
Beautiful trio today my good Sir. But of course it was easy to pick a favorite...has to be the one with the wonderful dedication to sweet Valerie. Gorgeous macro and heartwarming words. Youre a great friend and im sure shell be mighty flattered and moved by this one. Have a great day. #:O)
NekhbetSun
This is such a sweet dedi and so typical of your loving nature Troy S simply beautiful !!! hugs
evilstoy
Wow, beautiful work.
marybelgium
lovely dedi !
Richardphotos
awesome dedication Troy and high quality macro
Valerie-Ducom
Oh my...(blushing). It's me who i have some lucky to have you as a very good friend. I do not know if I deserve so many congratulation, but my heart and my head wished you the best in this life. Thanks for this marvellous flower from our big mother The Nature. thank you for all my heart my dear... very big kiss and hugsssssss and good dayyyyyyy;)
Chaos911
what a F A N T A S T I C shot and work!!!! super cooooool!!! :)
teoratiu
It's really relaxing to see someone writing lovely words about someone else, Especially after a day when you heard lots of bad things. There's o hope for this world people of this kind are living. Great capture of a very sensitive plant.
lafayette
Very fine flower and beautiful ligth, the good picture for Valou!
Loloe
Wow!!! what a marvelous image for our dear Valou! Really superb!!! Bravo Troy!!! have a wonderful day! big hugs
Nath06
Really superb and great dedi for Valou !!! Bravo , big Hugs :)
nathalie06
A beautiful Macro for a beautiful woman and dear friend ! When I say "beautiful" it's not only because of the beauty of Valou..... lol, but because she IS beautiful inside, a wild and positive spirit, and always a very kind person, with a lot of humor too. Valou you're one of the Sunshine of our little village ;o)))))) A very kind dedi Troy. Hugs
GBCalls
That is a sweet dedication to a lovely lady. Excellent catch of this difficult one to photograph. Well done!
redchilicat
LOVE the lighting on this one! Beautiful!
pm_hackworth
Five stars!!
maggiemai
Extraordinary lighting! Simply gorgeous photo and a very sweet dedi for a very sweet lady. :-))) Beautiful and a perfect choice of the heart. sighs... smiles and (((hugs)))
Margana
Beautiful dedi,Troy.I can see you made Valou quite happy with this.And who wouldn't be?It's absolutely lovely.I hope you continue to be so inspired.All my best to both of you.-M :^)