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 (18)
jimken61
Beautiful capture. I think I like this one better than the first one. I like the lighting and the clean reflection. Have a great day!
Richardphotos
the reflections are beautiful Troy. excellent capture. I suppose you may have some gator's about? for sure many snakes, not forgetting the west nile gators(mosquitos)
miladyblu
CIAO!!!Splendid dedication for our dearest friend Andreas!!Also I am very happy with vision how it is presented this place six months after!! Really very fascinating!! the reflections are always fantastic and the trees with the green leaves give a touch of magic and a magnificent feeling of calm!!Your toil surely is rewarded from this excellent work that is really a big masterpiece my dearest Troy!!I love really a lot this breathtaking shot and this wonderful place between the peace of the nature!!Thank you for sharing this wonder!!I wish you a happy sunday!!A enormous kiss and hugs galore!!
Hendesse
What a fantastic capture of this beautiful place. Outstanding reflections, an excellent shot!!!
Zacko
Awwww!!!! For meeee? AWWWW!!! I got my own swamp....just like Shrek. Does it come with a talking donkey i wonder? Its beautiful buddy! I remember begging you to capture some photos of it when the trees had some leafs...leaves...sigh...i shall never learn that plural. And im happy you did go back. Now that is what i call a calm place. Looks so peaceful and quiet. Excellent capture Troy! Hope you get to have a wonderful sunday, and once again THANK YOU! #:o)
bentchick
Heeeeeyyyyyyy donkey!!!!!!!!!! Lol @ Andreas!!!! Troy....you did good!!!! I love that you posted the other pic for comparison!!! I think that is a beautiful shot!!!! I love that reflection!!!! I'm sure Andreas will be pulling this one up alot next winter!!!!!!!!!!!! Hugs!!!!!!!!
NekhbetSun
Well, still looks wild n wooly...why, I think I see Bigfoot peekin' out from behind that clump of trees :o) Good one Troy, and so thoughtful S
southernamazon1957
Absolutely beautiful! I bet you fought the mosquitos for this lovely shot. Thank you:)
marybelgium
superb reflection !
Cosme..D..Churruca
Excellent place and photography !
Loloe
It's even more beautiful with the leaves!!! Bravo Troy, and I'm looking forward to see Andreas's swamp in november!Huge hugs
Valerie-Ducom
Oh yes, fantastic picture and very good composition in this one!!! Thank you for sharing this excellent picture my dear friend and this very beautiful for Andreas!!! Good week and hugs ;)
kimariehere
such a beautiful shot with your classic reflections work ... lovely !
Chaos911
wow, what a super super work!!!! excellently done!!! :)
Margana
What a wonderful shot for Andreas.I can almost picture him there...bathing and passing swamp gas,lol.Just kidding.Great idea going back for the shot again,Troy.Both shots are wonderful.Just be careful of the mosquitoes and stuff.They must be terribly abundant this time of year.Have a great week.-M :^)
toer
Awesome shot Troy - natures seen by a great artist... :)
jinet
Nice shot !
TomDart
Zacko's place is wonderous. Very well done. Andreas will like it surely and I do give you a very "high five" and excellent on this photo. You are kind to dedicate it. Reflection on the still water is superb.