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This website links to some of my writing from newspapers and magazines. The koi portraits are for sale.

Specialties

Investigative feature writing

Science writing

Marine/oceanic affairs

Architecture and design

Criticism (books) 

 

  

Photo by Capt. Mark Jennings.

 

Neal Matthews         

2232 Boundary St.           

San Diego, CA 92104

(619)284-6068

nealmat@cox.net

 

  

Book Reviews

 

The T Sector

Blondie24

 

San Diego Union-Tribune

Bears, by Bernd Brunner

 

Leviathan, by Eric Jay Dolin

 

Monkey Girl, by Edward Humes

 

The End of the Line, by Charles Clover

 

Heat, by Bill Buford

 

Shadow Divers, by Robert Kurson

 

Sweet 'N Low, by Rich Cohen

 

Skeletons on the Zahara,

by Dean King

 

The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts

 

Breaking Rank, by Norm Stamper

 

The Curse of the Narrows,

by Laura M. MacDonald

 

The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick,

by Peter Lamont 

 

The Eye of the Whale,

by Dick Russell

 

Rats, by Robert Sullivan

 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place,

by Aron Ralston

 

Welfare Ranching

 

 

Nile sojourn, Travel Holiday. Photos: NM

   


California shark diving, San Diego Union-Tribune.

 

South Pole Safari, Travel Holiday.

 

 

Boating Magazine

Spearfishing, 2000

 

Baja Boat Towing Adventure 

 

Laguna Madre, 2001

 

Cuban Cigar Smuggling 

 

Should You Pack A Gun Onboard?

 

Vietnam: The PBR's We Left Behind

 

History of the Mexican Panga

 

America's Roughest Waters

 

Whale Watcher's Guide

 

That Sinking Feeling

 

Who Killed Michelle Von Emster? 1994

Letter to the M.E., 2008

Letter from the M.E., 2008

CityBeat update, 2008

 

 

American Craft

Artist James Hubbell, before the fire 

 

Mingei International Museum

 

Forrest Merrill, California ceramics collector

 

Alaskan Spirit: Jewelry Designers Denise and Samuel Wallace 

 

 

San Diego Union-Tribune, 1993-95

Who invented the Caesar salad? 

 

Cooking up a storm

 

Shark Diving

 

California Magazine

1982

Sea of Tears

 

San Diego Reader

1978

When Men Went Underwater

 

1984

Duke Cunningham's Vietnam Dogfights

 

1990

I Ran Drugs For Uncle Sam

 

 

Res Ipsa, Cal Western Law School mag

2003-2004

/Documents/USA Patriot Act.doc

/Documents/Politicization of the Judiciary.doc

/Documents/Federal District Judge Casey Rodgers Confirmation.doc

/Documents/Military Tribunals.doc

 

 

Book reviews unavailable online

Published in The San Diego Union-Tribune

 

The World, by Jan Morris

/Documents/The World.doc

When Smoke Ran Like Water,

by Devra Davis

/Documents/When Smoke Ran Like Water.doc

Smokechasing, by Stephen J. Pyne

/Documents/Smokechasing review.doc

Mountains of the Mind, by Robert Macfarlane

/Documents/Mountains of the Mind.doc

 

 

Spanish shawl nudibranch, La Jolla kelp beds.

 

   

Old Havana, Cuba.

 

Channel catfish, reflecting pond, Balboa Park. RIP 5/24/09. 

Recent Work 

Popular Photography Magazine 

Future of Photography (pdf)

Future of Photography (link)

30 Photo-friendliest Cities

Photographer's Guide to the Eye

Grand Theft Photo

Real or Fake?

How a Photo Can Ruin Your Life

Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

 


Photo: Phillip Buehler

 

The War on Photographers

 

Photo: Jim McKinniss

 

Photography on the Couch 

 

Photo: Rick Diaz

 

The New York Times

Lower the National Anthem,

Page A-1 

 

/Documents/O say could you sing that anthem in a lower key Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles.htm

/Documents/Left Is Gaining Air America in San Diego.mht

 

San Diego Union-Tribune

The La Jolla Seal Colony's Ecological Price Tag 

 

Science stories

Defending Your Dissertation

 

The Fragile Male 

 

The lonely Y chromosome.

 

Natural Rhythms

 

Space Agriculture

 

Salton Sea Survival

 

La Jolla Submarine Canyon

  

3-D illustration: Union-Tribune

 

 

Gulf Stream Survival

Photo: NASA

 

Rogue Waves

Rogues. Boating magazine.

 

Oceanographer Walter Munk profile

 

Sealab II

 

Palomar Observatory Mirror

 

Iron-induced Plankton Blooming

 

Naturalist Joseph Grinnell 

 

Chlorine Dangers 

 

Offshore Life in the Kelp Paddies 

  

Kelp paddy 20 miles off San Diego. Photos: NM

 

Travel Holiday magazine

 

Antarctic Cruising

 

Arizona: Lost Dutchman's Gold

 

Australia:

Great Ocean Road Trip 

Aborigines Taking Back The Outback

Melbourne Parks and Gardens

Driving the Kimberley

 

Baja Seashelling

 

Belize: Maya Forever

 

Egypt: Cruising the Nile 

 

Temple of Karnak, Luxor, Egypt. 

 

Malaysia On Five Meals A Day

 

Costa Rica:  Five Ways To Go

 

Costa Rican Coffee Touring

 

 

Poas Volcano, Costa Rica. 

 

South Korea: Strung Out On Ginseng

 

Puget Sound: Biking The San Juan Islands 

 

Panama:

Native Kuna of the San Blas Islands

Beyond the Canal

Best Ways To Go

 

 

Panama City, Panama.

 

Miami Architecture/Morris Lapidus

New Zealand 

Whale Watching  

 

 

Bridal Guide

Honeymoon in Sydney

 

A day at the opera.


 Unpublished

Five Photo Mysteries Solved


The Truth About Women Drivers


 

Original mss. for stories in Travel Holiday,

Boating, Pages, San Diego Home/Garden,

the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other

newspapers and magazines.

/Documents/Australian Aborigines take back the Dreamtime.doc

/Documents/Baja journey.doc

/Documents/Bajawhale.doc

/Documents/Belize.doc

/Documents/Biking the San Juan Islands.doc

/Documents/Boating for wine.doc

/Documents/Broken.doc

/Documents/Bushwalking the Australian Eucalyptus.doc

/Documents/Cavediving.doc

/Documents/costaricacoffee.doc

/Documents/Cuban Cigar Smuggling.doc

/Documents/Driving the Kimberley.doc

/Documents/Elmore Leonard.doc

/Documents/Ginseng in S Korea.doc

/Documents/Going down.doc

/Documents/Gunboats.doc

/Documents/Indian Cultures of Oklahoma.doc

/Documents/Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.doc

/Documents/Kaypro founder Interview.doc

/Documents/Kuna Protecting Paradise in the San Blas Islands.doc

/Documents/Lost Dutchman Saves the Superstitions.doc

/Documents/Malaysia on Five Meals a Day.doc

/Documents/Maori Glow Worm Caves.doc

/Documents/Melbourne Blooms.doc

/Documents/NZpass.doc

/Documents/Pacific Grove Butterflies.doc

/Documents/Panga Dreams.doc

/Documents/Rio de Janeiro Navigator.doc

/Documents/Shelling in Baja.doc

/Documents/The Boats We Left Behind.doc

/Documents/Tough water lessons.doc

/Documents/Trevor Hoffman.doc

/Documents/Walter Munk.doc

/Documents/Yukon Gold.doc