Category: Photography
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My Favorite Mushrooms!
Walking in the neighborhood. About a block and a half from my East Knoxville house in Tennessee — these bodacious mushrooms: Almost couldn’t believe the brazen boldness of these fungi! Just to capture the sense of scale, I plunked my hat down amongst them, along with the red hand-weights I was pumping. For anyone curious,…
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Still Chasing the God Particle!
Physicists at CERN — home of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — are bracing for a fresh assault on the tantalizing Higgs boson. In 2012 they used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to generate subatomic debris that could be interpreted as traces of a single “God particle” (as the Higgs sometimes is called). (Don’t call it that around…
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Synchronized Fireflies of the Smoky Mountains
Just saw my first summer fireflies within the past week or two. They come out, here in East Tennessee, sometime in June. Now that July has arrived, so have they, in full force. This fractal picture I drew may be stylized, but it does depict the way these beautiful insects cluster around vegetation. In the…
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Fractal Art: More from Gary Matthews
The response to my Star Gate picture, posted the other day, has thrilled me. Thumbnail at the right — or visit the original post here. Nothing, however, thrills me more than the many requests I’m getting to see more of my fractal art. There are quite a few more images, some of which strike me as sufficiently…
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The Gary Matthews Fractals
Digital art. I’ve long been a sucker for it. Lately I’ve been trying my hand at fractals, a particularly fascinating type of digital art. For me it started simply as puttering. Before I knew it, my hard drive was bursting with images. Some better than others. But all of them fun (for me, at least). Here’s a sample:…
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Charmian Matthews: “influencing, rosy” mom!
Thinking of you, Mom, this Mother’s Day. And every day! Hard to believe I’m just three years younger today than you were when you died, in 1991, at 68. Too soon! But what an impact you made — on the world, on me, on everyone who knew and loved you — in those years. Your full name was “Minnie…
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Heron Now! a magic photo moment
Not every critter associated with the Knoxville Zoo resides there in an official capacity. There’s a large gray heron I’m pretty sure nests on or around the zoo property. Apparently in the wooded buffer that surrounds the exhibits. UPDATE: More bird magic! See below for my mourning dove image capture! The heron hangs out at the Chilhowee…
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A Knoxville Springtime
With winter receding, I spring to my camera to catch the first flowers. Although Cheri and I work hard at surrounding our house with flowers, the biggest and best displays involve no work at all. They just happen, courtesy of our trees: a Bradford pear along the street, and two large apple trees at the…
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Google Comments Unleashed
What’s the most important new resource for bloggers and web designers, now that link images appear full-width on Google Plus? Most articles focus on increased website traffic, since these highly visible images click through to their target links. That’s indeed important. Even more important, however, in my view, is the fresh incentive this gives to…
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Google Plus displaying full-width link images
The Google Plus social network apparently has just begun displaying link images as full-width photographs — not simply as thumbnails. [UPDATE: From Saturday, March 15 through Monday, March 17 — the Ides of March through Saint Patrick’s Day — Google Plus links reverted to the old-style thumbnail images. As of today, March 18, they are…
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Knoxville Snow: First of 2014
Knoxville got hit this week with its first real snow of 2014. Shutterbug that I am, I couldn’t wait to document it with photos. Here they are! UPDATE: The snowfall pictured above, the week of January 29, was followed on February 12 by a much deeper and heavier snow. For comparison: Except for the animated…