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)
morningglory
Stands out great against the concrete...don't know where everyone is finding all these things, I have not seen one in over twenty years! Nice shot.
natalieb
Excellent capture of a beautiful creature !
Flannelman
Good title and capture. thanx ;-)
wildgoha
oh Troy he's fantastic ! a little guy ready to run -! or maybe that's finish, hey ? you're great too !
Joko-Style
It looks interesting, great photo!
Biffowitz
WOW, what a interesting subject, like I've seen 2 or 3 of these things in my life. Fabulous clarity, a real neat shot!!!
Valerie-Ducom
wowwwwwwww Troy!!!!!!! Is excellent this pov for this creature!! Fantastic photo and pov!!! Bisous et bonne journ ;)
Luka_30
Nice title, excellent shot.
kimariehere
WOW!! BRILLIANT MACO this is the best shot of a mantis i have ever personally seen!! incredible !!... excellent capture so crisp and clear ...FANTASTIC TROY !! someone told me they are good luck but then another person told me they are a bad omen so now i am confused haha.. i just think they are amazing creatured and it must be good luck for you cause you got this shot!!..
short_ribs
LOL at the title!!! Love is mate! excellent shot! Thanks for sharing! ^_^
gingerlou
Yes, nice title and capture!
SoulSearcherr
this rocks...love the bg...bravooo
chexm1x
Great photo, love the title!
_Bee
Oh Troy this is a mantis with attitude! Lovely shot!
Dianthus
Great macro and good DOF:)
marybelgium
fantastic !!!
Fotogen
Great Macro. They guys walk around so proud :)
Richardphotos
I love these guys. I think they are amazing insects. your macro is creme dela crop!!!!
Chaos911
wow, looks fantastic, excellently done!!!! :=)
Fidelity2
Beautiful image.