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)
CDBrugg
beautifully done :-))
NekhbetSun
Wonderful photo and interesting little critters aren't they S hugs
Valerie-Ducom
oh!!! A very dificult shot to take because this insect moving very much.. You say to speak with then? LOL... excellente capture my dear and these colour are sublim!!! Good day and kisssss, hugssss ;)
dragonfly2000
Very cool!
acquilon
beautiful capture
marybelgium
fantastique !
jinet
Good composition and capture. What can be improved ? You should have exposed for the dragonfly and here you let your camera exposed for the background (think of the selective or spot mode)!
tmathise
Excellent observation Jerome, you are correct Sir! Unfortunately the damn bug buggered off when the shutter clicked, never to return! Arghhh! Oh well, some work, others? Like I said... ARGHHH!
teoratiu
Hahaha, it's the dragonfly season. Everybody capture them. Great shot.
wildgoha
he wanted to be star on RR ;-)or maybe it's your scent ;-) LOL
Nath06
Excellent capture , not easy to catch!!! Bravo Troy , have a great day and big hugs :)
nathalie06
Lol ! Hard to shot these little guys Troy ???? Je has right, but it's not as easy as we want !!!!! Another so lovely capture. and a splendid DOF too. Have a nice evening and night my friend. Hugsssss
GBCalls
Woah! You captured one of the Goverment Mini Spies....uh oh ! Stealth color scheme should have tipped you off ....Excellent!
redchilicat
What a stealthy looking dragonfly! I have never seen a black one. Beautiful shot by the way! :-)
pm_hackworth
Five stars!
maggiemai
I don't think I've ever seen a black dragonfly before! He is nasty looking but this is sure a great shot of him. :-) Excellent macro Troy... love the detail in the wings. :-)
Richardphotos
impressive macro Troy and a real beaut