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Friday Free Wallpaper Post: Patio

My patio. It was wet. I thought it would make a good desktop background.

This image is free and I’m releasing it in to the public domain. I took a 2560 x 1024 pixel slice out of it to use as dual monitor wallpaper, and of course you’re free to resize it to 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 1024, 1024 x 768, or etc x etc.

2816 x 2112

(An advantage of dual monitors I’ve found in GNU/Linux is that you can have a wallpaper that stretches across two displays. In Windows–by default at least, and no easy way to configure otherwise–I was only able to have an image repeated on both displays.)

Lake Superior Rocky and Pebbly Shoreline

Penguin Pete wrote a nice tutorial on how to make 3D pebbles in the GIMP. I haven’t tried the howto yet but trust that it will explain things very well.

He wrote “Grab an example image of pebbles or rocks from online/creative-commons works. Since we’re only going to be sampling them for a few pixels, licensing isn’t as hot an issue,” which prompted me to think about these pictures I took a few years ago on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. We stayed in a small cabin right off this beach. I wish now I had taken more shots of wet pebbles, as the water brings out the colors better and makes a nice sheen.

Being a fan of free culture, I decided to put these out here as raw material for would-be tutorial users. …

Friday Photopost: Mahaulepu Beach in Kauai, Hawaii

Another nice beach on the south side of Kauai, reached by an inconspicuous dirt road full of potholes.

Picture taken with a two mega-pixel Olympus camera. Click on it for a 1600×1200 version suitable for framing or wallpaper.

Please feel free to use and share this picture under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

The Rambling Traveler posted another picture today from my Kauai trip: Palm Trees.

Friday Photopost: Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Pacing in rhythm… Race the oncoming night…

Headfirst humanity… Pause at a light… Then flow through the streets of the city.”

I’m not much of a photographer. I like taking pictures and sometimes get lucky on a shot. I see now that I really missed on this one. I was only looking at the buildings and cut off the people at the bottom of the picture. I think if I would have panned down to include the curb it would have been a much better shot. (Let’s include a vertical for comparison purposes…)

Three things worked against me: One, I was hurrying to catch a bus. Two, as usual, I felt self-conscious about taking my camera out and shooting away like …

Friday Photopost: More Minnesota Aspens in Fall

Taken with my two-megapixel Olympus camera. Linked to a 1600×1200 version suitable for framing or wallpaper.

Please feel free to copy, rip, mix, burn, and make use of this picture under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

Culture and (published) digital information should be free!

Related:

Autumn in Northern Minnesota
Minnesota Aspens in Summer

Late Friday Photopost: Sedona, Arizona

I wasn’t going to do a photopost this week because I haven’t written much and I don’t want photoposts to outweigh wordier entries. (Although it is a lot of fun to share pictures!)

I have things I want to write about, but one of the reasons I’m not getting to them is I’m doing this new thing where I try to get more sleep. I like sleep. And I have this 10-month-old daughter that selfishly interferes with both my writing and my sleep ambitions.

Since I still don’t have something new ready and these things are fairly quick to put together…

Here are a couple of pictures of gorgeous red rock country: Sedona, Arizona. Doe Mountain is a great hike not far outside of town. A nice switchback trail to the top and then …