The beauty of sharing

November 7th, 2006

I posted a bunch of photos to DeviantArt as free stock photography back in 2001-2002. I’ve since mostly forgotten about them but occasionally someone uses one of them and it just makes me smile. It’s collaboration not only across the globe, but across time.

I just got a message today that my spooky tree photo was used in this beautiful piece below.
Sleeping Fairy by ~hemalitanna on deviantART

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74 free desktop wallpapers

July 24th, 2006

A few days back, I got some nice encouragement from my mom. Moms are perennial cheerleaders by their very nature, but this particular compliment on my photos got me thinking that I should collect my best desktop oriented shots and make them easily available to download. They’re already freely available through flickr under the creative commons attribution-shareAlike license, but I wanted to assemble my personal favorites.

Download the wallpapers as a self-extracting zip file.

Just run the file in the directory where you want the photos. The package is also available as a straight zip file

I highly recommend “John’s Background Switcher” which allows you to select specific photos to rotate on your background and even lets you specify a flickr user, tag, or set.

Here’s a preview of what the photo package contains:

one among many with the sky broken but beautiful Dag gum! 20060718_North_carolina 062 20060718_North_carolina 051 20060718_North_carolina 037 falling water falling water falling water falling water falling water Flowers and sky Flying in formation Aww... It likes me Flowers from the walk to the car Frisbee mid-flight Beachgrass and sun Beachgrass and sun Sunrise on the beach Sunrise on the beach Sunrise on the beach Sunrise on the beach Alien land Subway Sleepers Astoria Sunset I never get tired of raindrops on leaves raindrops look like candy Monster Servers Upstate 073 Upstate 032 Bumblebee on the Lupine Bumblebee on the Lupine This would be a much cooler picture if they were real penguins SeaWorld 142 BIg fish SeaWorld 052 flower macro Water fountain water droplets mid air Kermit the frog on the hollywood walk of fame Hollywood 009 Lilly Pad where the water washes away the highway sunset on the ocean wildflower weed up close scenic overlook fisheye purple ribbon flower closed Translucent orange flower More plants I've never seen before More plants I've never seen before indigo impatient sunset and a storm a the hoover dam sunset on the hills a the hoover dam The watershow at the Bellagio long road to the moutains IMG_5684 IMG_5646 Antique calendar gadget See-through leaves Rooftop Pool Fireflower 3 droplest unedited pink glaciers Triton stands before the storm Hydrangea macro Hydrangea blossomLight from Provincetown Weird spore-case macro Plum blossom Beachgrass and blue sky Colonial sunset Neverending soundboard

Posted by Eric Skiff Filed in cc-by-sa, creativecommons, desktop, free, photography, photos, wallpaper
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