User:Ken Thomas

Doofus.

"You will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth." - Buckaroo Banzai

I used to keep a fairly detailed User Page here with a lot of information, but most of it ended up being redundant when I set up my personal website, so I've decided to stop maintaining this page and focus on that one instead. Please feel free to visit with any questions or requests you may have. I love it when people use my photographs in their own projects, so the odds are good I'll be happy to help in any way I can.

The image galleries below display all of the photos and illustrations I've uploaded to Commons, and are mostly here to help me keep track of what I've uploaded and what I haven't. If you need a particular image and you don't see it here, my e-mail address is listed on my site so you're welcome to drop me a line. I don't mind digging through the hard drive to see if I have anything that would suit your needs.

Thanks for the interest, and have a great day.

The Images

New Additions

Six of the most recent photos uploaded.

• 
  Tricolored Heron
• 
  Bald Eagle (Immature)
• 
  Funnel-web Spider
• 
  Bald Eagle
• 
  Red-shouldered Hawk
• 
  Me

My Favorites

• 
  Upper Creek Falls
• 
  Song Sparrow
• 
  Dogback Ridge in the Linville Gorge.
• 
  Mourning Dove
• 
  Linville Falls
• 
  Dark-eyed Junco
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker
• 
  A snowy day and an old mining road.
• 
  Tufted Titmouse
• 
  St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park.
• 
  Cedar Waxwing
• 
  Sunrise on the island of Cozumel.
• 
  Children playing in Swann Fountain in Philadelphia.
• 
  Northern Cardinal
• 
  Sunrise over Table Rock in the Linville Gorge.
• 
  Northern Mockingbird
• 
  A tree in a blizzard.
• 
  Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

Animals

Arranged in alphabetical order by common name.

• 
  American Black Vulture
• 
  American Crow
• 
  American Goldfinches
• 
  American Goldfinch (male)
• 
  American Lady Butterfly
• 
  American Robin
• 
  Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail
• 
  Bald Eagle
• 
  Bald Eagle (Immature)
• 
  Bald Eagle
• 
  Bald Eagle
• 
  Bald Eagle (Immature)
• 
  Black Bear
• 
  Black Widow Spider
• 
  Blue Jay
• 
  Blue Jay
• 
  Boat-tailed Grackle
• 
  Brown-headed Nuthatch
• 
  Brown Paper Wasp
• 
  Brown Pelicans
• 
  Brown Thrasher
• 
  Brown Thrasher
• 
  Brown Thrasher
• 
  Carolina Chickadee
• 
  Carolina Chickadee
• 
  Carolina Wren
• 
  Carolina Wren
• 
  Cedar Waxwing
• 
  Cliff Swallows
• 
  Cliff Swallows
• 
  Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored subspecies)
• 
  Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored subspecies)
• 
  Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored subspecies)
• 
  Downy Woodpecker (male)
• 
  Downy Woodpecker (female)
• 
  Eastern Bluebird
• 
  Eastern Bluebird
• 
  Eastern Fence Lizard
• 
  Eastern Grey Squirrel
• 
  Eastern Towhee (female)
• 
  Eastern Towhee (male)
• 
  Eastern Towhee (male)
• 
  Elk (North Carolina)
• 
  Elk (North Carolina)
• 
  Elk (North Carolina)
• 
  Five-lined Skink
• 
  Flying Squirrel
• 
  Flying Squirrel
• 
  Flying Squirrel
• 
  Funnel Web Spider
• 
  Great-tailed Grackle
• 
  Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly
• 
  Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly
• 
  Honeybee
• 
  Honeybees
• 
  Honeybees
• 
  Honeybees
• 
  House Finch (male)
• 
  House Finch (male)
• 
  Keel-billed Toucan
• 
  Mourning Dove
• 
  Mourning Dove
• 
  Mourning Dove
• 
  Northern Cardinal (female)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (fledgling)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (male)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (male)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (male)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (male)
• 
  Northern Cardinal (mated pair)
• 
  Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
• 
  Orbweaver Spider
• 
  Orbweaver Spider
• 
  Otter
• 
  Passion Butterfly
• 
  Pine Warbler
• 
  Ponies (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Ponies (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Ponies (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Ponies (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Pony (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Pony (Grayson Highlands)
• 
  Great Blue Heron
• 
  Raven
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
• 
  Red-shouldered Hawk
• 
  Red-shouldered Hawk
• 
  Red-shouldered Hawk
• 
  Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile)
• 
  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• 
  Royal Terns
• 
  Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 
  Sachem Butterfly
• 
  Sachem Butterfly
• 
  Song Sparrow
• 
  Tree Swallow (female)
• 
  Tree Swallow (male)
• 
  Tree Swallow (male)
• 
  Tree Swallows (mating)
• 
  Tricolored Heron
• 
  Tufted Titmouse
• 
  Turkey Vulture
• 
  Webworm Moth
• 
  White-tailed Deer
• 
  White-tailed Deer
• 
  White-tailed Deer
• 
  White-tailed Deer
• 
  White-tailed Deer
• 
  White-throated Sparrow
• 
  Wild Turkey
• 
  Wild Turkeys
• 
  Wild Turkey (Male)
• 
  Willet
• 
  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (juvenile female)
• 
  Yellow-rumped Warbler

Scenery

Arranged in chronological order by the date when the photo was taken.

• 
  Coggins Bridge on the Uwharrie.
• 
  New River Gorge
• 
  Cathedral Falls
• 
  Greenbrier River
• 
  Johnny Mercer's Pier in Wrightsville Beach, NC.
• 
  Neuse River
• 
  Kanawha Falls
• 
  Cliffs near Gauley Bridge.
• 
  Cathedral Falls w/snow.
• 
  Mount Mitchell
• 
  From Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
• 
  Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• 
  Cameron Falls
• 
  Waterton Lake
• 
  The sun setting over Ptarmigan Ridge.
• 
  Grinnell Peak
• 
  Going-to-the-Sun Road
• 
  Going-to-the-Sun Road. (under construction)
• 
  McDonald Creek
• 
  McDonald Creek
• 
  Bow Falls
• 
  Bow River and Hoodoos.
• 
  Bow River
• 
  Logan Pass
• 
  Snow coaches on Athabasca Glacier.
• 
  Athabasca Falls
• 
  Maligne Lake
• 
  Lake Louise
• 
  New River Gorge
• 
  Highway 16
• 
  Laurel Creek Waterfall
• 
  Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh.
• 
  Edgecombe County sunrise.
• 
  Pond at Flowers Planatation
• 
  Jordan Lake
• 
  Linville Falls
• 
  Blue Ridge Mountains
• 
  Benjamin Franklin Parkway
• 
  Sunlight in the forest.
• 
  Linville Gorge
• 
  Wrightsville Beach sunrise
• 
  Wrightsville Beach sunrise
• 
  Linville Gorge
• 
  Wiseman's View overlook at the Linville Gorge.
• 
  Timbered Branch
• 
  Griffith Branch
• 
  Laurel Hell
• 
  Table Rock
• 
  Half-moon Bay at Akumal.
• 
  Half-moon Bay at Akumal.
• 
  Cozumel beach.
• 
  Punta Sur lighthouse.
• 
  Cozumel reef.
• 
  Cozumel from Coconuts Bar & Grill.
• 
  Sunset on Cozumel.
• 
  Cozumel
• 
  Upper Creek
• 
  Upper Creek Falls
• 
  Upper Creek Falls
• 
  Upper Creek
• 
  Upper Creek
• 
  Lenoir, NC
• 
  View from Blowing Rock.
• 
  Gauley River
• 
  Gauley River
• 
  Summersville Lake
• 
  Blue Ridge Parkway
• 
  Wilson Creek
• 
  Hibriten Mountain
• 
  Wilson Creek
• 
  Blue Ridge Mountains
• 
  Linville River
• 
  Linville Falls
• 
  Linville Falls
• 
  Watauga River
• 
  Gauley Bridge
• 
  New River Gorge
• 
  Coal Run Creek
• 
  Johns River
• 
  Johns River
• 
  Linville Gorge
• 
  Linville Gorge
• 
  Cold Mountain
• 
  North Carolina Arboretum
• 
  Carolina Beach Sunrise
• 
  North Toe River
• 
  Spruce Pine
• 
  Cataloochee Valley
• 
  Clingmans Dome
• 
  Joyce Kilmer Forest
• 
  Joyce Kilmer Forest
• 
  Joyce Kilmer Forest
• 
  Silo w/Tree
• 
  View from Mount Jefferson
• 
  Price Lake sunset
• 
  Grandfather Mountain
• 
  Brushy Mountains
• 
  Wilson Creek
• 
  Black Mountain sunset
• 
  Apple Orchard
• 
  Black Mountains
• 
  Black Mountains
• 
  Little Fork Meadow
• 
  Cone Park
• 
  Natural Bridge
• 
  Natural Bridge
• 
  Williams River
• 
  Grayson Highlands
• 
  Sabino Canyon
• 
  Sabino Canyon
• 
  Sabino Canyon
• 
  Sabino Canyon
• 
  Dragoon Mountains
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Sedona, AZ
• 
  Cathedral Rock
• 
  Cathedral Rock
• 
  Walnut Canyon
• 
  Meteor Crater
• 
  Meteor Crater
• 
  Meteor Crater
• 
  Sunset Crater
• 
  Sunset Crater
• 
  Sunset Crater
• 
  Sunset Crater

Things

Arranged in chronological order by the date when the photo was taken.

• 
  John Henry
• 
  Plane landing at RDU.
• 
  NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher.
• 
  NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher.
• 
  New York Public Library
• 
  Fortitude
• 
  Times Square
• 
  The main entrance lobby of the Empire State Building.
• 
  Ellis Island
• 
  Boy Scout Memorial
• 
  Enola Gay
• 
  Enola Gay
• Coal Miner
  Coal Miner
• 
  The US Coast Guard cutter Diligence.
• 
  The USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial.
• 
  Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• 
  Jammer
• 
  Fort Steele Heritage Park
• 
  Leatherworker
• 
  Radium Hot Springs
• Peachoid.
  Peachoid.
• 
  Joyce Kilmer
• 
  Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier
• 
  The Washington Monument in Philadelphia.
• 
  Swann Memorial Fountain
• 
  Swann Memorial Fountain
• 
  Fire Tower on Gauley Mountain.
• 
  The Mast General Store
• 
  Cobá pyramid.
• 
  Cobá pyramid.
• 
  Cobá ballcourt.
• 
  The Tyco Responder.
• 
  Mexican Navy patrol boat.
• 
  Tree
• 
  Confederate veterans memorial.
• 
  Blowing Rock
• 
  Summersville Dam
• 
  Birdsfoot Violets
• 
  Mile-High Swinging Bridge
• 
  Fort Defiance
• 
  Fort Defiance Cemetery
• 
  Kerr Scott Dam
• 
  Valle Crucis Community Park
• 
  Gauley Bridge
• 
  Railroad Bridge
• 
  Retired Astronaut
• 
  Saturn V
• 
  Saturn V
• 
  Saturn V
• 
  Blue Angels
• 
  Blue Angels
• 
  Blue Angels
• 
  Golden Knights
• 
  Golden Knights
• 
  Golden Knights
• 
  Fireworks
• 
  Fireworks
• 
  Fireworks
• 
  Linville Falls Visitor Center
• 
  North Carolina Arboretum
• 
  North Carolina Arboretum
• 
  Bonsai
• 
  Bonsai
• 
  Bonsai
• 
  Bonsai
• 
  Ferry
• 
  Sign
• 
  Fort Fisher Memorial
• 
  Spruce Pine Park
• 
  Spruce Pine Signage
• 
  BRP Sign
• 
  Mingus Mill
• 
  GSMNP Sign
• 
  Joyce Kilmer Memorial
• 
  Fire/Cell Tower
• 
  Mount Jefferson Sign
• 
  Paintball player
• 
  Paintball player
• 
  Paintball player
• 
  Wright Brothers Memorial
• 
  Wright Brothers Memorial
• 
  Warning Sign
• 
  Tunnel
• 
  Discovery Place
• 
  Statue from Pompeii
• 
  Statue from Pompeii
• 
  Sculpture from Pompeii
• 
  Cast remains from Pompeii
• 
  Cast remains from Pompeii
• 
  Cast remains from Pompeii
• 
  Cast remains from Pompeii
• 
  Sign at Cone Park
• 
  Flat Top Manor
• 
  Carriage House
• 
  Sky Lift
• 
  Red Trillium
• 
  Grayson Highlands State Park
• 
  Biltmore Estate
• 
  Biltmore Estate
• 
  Biltmore Estate
• 
  Biltmore Estate
• 
  Bisbee, AZ
• 
  Bisbee, AZ
• 
  Tombstone, AZ
• 
  Tombstone, AZ
• 
  Casa Grande
• 
  Casa Grande
• 
  Casa Grande
• 
  Montezuma Castle
• 
  Montezuma Castle
• 
  Montezuma Castle
• 
  Walnut Canyon
• 
  Walnut Canyon
• 
  Self-portrait

Panoramic Photos

Arranged in chronological order by the date when the photo was taken.

Kanawha Falls on the Kanawha River.

The Linville Gorge from Table Rock.

Wrightsville Beach at sunrise.

The southern face of Grandfather Mountain.

The view from the top of a Mayan pyramid.

Punta Sur on Cozumel.

Sunrise over the windward shore of Cozumel.

Linville Falls and the Linville Gorge from the Chimney Rock overlook.

Looking south from Linville Peak on Grandfather Mountain.

Looking south from Linville Peak on Grandfather Mountain.
Text labels have been added to this version of the image to illustrate the location of prominent terrain features.

The New River in the New River Gorge.

Fort Fisher from Battery Buchanan.

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

Illustrations

• 
  American Goldfinch range map.
• 
  Blue Jay range map.
• 
  Brown-headed Nuthatch range map.
• 
  Brown Thrasher range map.
• 
  Carolina Chickadee range map.
• Carolina Wren range map.
  Carolina Wren range map.
• 
  Cedar Waxwing range map.
• 
  Dark-eyed Junco range map.
• 
  Downy Woodpecker range map.
• 
  Eastern Bluebird range map.
• 
  Great Blue Heron range map.
• 
  House Finch range map.
• 
  Northern Cardinal range map.
• 
  Northern Flicker range map.
• 
  Northern Mockingbird range map.
• 
  Pine Warbler range map.
• 
  Pileated Woodpecker range map.
• 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker range map.
• 
  Rose-breasted Grosbeak range map.
• 
  Ruby-throated Hummingbird range map.
• 
  Tree Swallow range map.
• 
  Tufted Titmouse range map.
• 
  Yellow-rumped Warbler range map.
• 
  California Condor range map.

The License

For this page and all my contributions:

This work has been released into the public domain by its author, I, Ken Thomas. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I, Ken Thomas grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Give freely or don't give.