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 (19)
morningglory
I grew cotton one year, it was fascinating to watch mature....very pretty shot.
Loloe
Eh you speak french now ! lol Great capture Troy! Perfect lighting! The first time I see real cotton! Bravo!!! have a nice new week! big hugs.
Mondwin
Really a enchanting "Flower"...bravissimo as usual!V:DDD.Hugsxx
MrsLubner
Beautifully crisp and clean shot. Lovely mood to this. Good job.
lhoulhou
A beautiful capture. Light and colors are great !
Benettor
i love your style ...bravo vote Nikon D70 -MY PORTFOLIO - STOCK
Valerie-Ducom
Excellent capture my dear friend and very nice color and contrast in this cotton!!! Good day and hugssss ;)
southernamazon1957
Beautiful capture........ I love sseing the cotton grow....Thank you:)
soulofharmony
The land of cottonwool.. superb shot :)
rainbows
Beautiful, my friend, never seen this before. Looks soft and lovely.... Miss ya, sad bad.... Hugs Troy Joy!!!! Na night. Di. xxx
claudialee
Quite lovely: I found it strange that the cotton ball is divided into four parts and is just the same size a cotton ball is that comes in the plastic bag, Great shot and POV!!! HUGS!!
maggiemai
Wow...I have never seen it on the plant like this before! It is SO fluffy and SO white!!! :-) Beautiful photo Troy. Hope you had a great weekend!
lil_sizzler
Wonderful crisp details! Excellent capture!
DJB
Never seen this before. Looks soft.You really got the colour going good on this.
NekhbetSun
How very cool Troy !!!!!! XOXOX
wildgoha
super shot and so delicate in touch thing ;-) Wonderul! HUGS
gradient
So that's what it looks like! Nice and crisp, congrats on LWITG!
RobyHermida
Beautiful Bravo!!! Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richardphotos
incredible beauty and capture Troy