Purple
I am alive and well in Germany this week and finally have an internet connection so I thought I would post a desktop for everyone. Contradicting the cold rainy weather I have been in all week I chose a simple image of a purple flower surrounded by white ones. Not to much to report outside of doing well and enjoying my time in Munich, still 4 days left so im going to get to living them.
To download the desktop simply click the image below or maybe right click the image and download the attached file. Legal info is in the zip file but pretty much I just ask that you dont use the image for any commercial use and otherwise, enjoy!
mix
This was a popular one when I posted it up on flickr so I decided to make it the next post in my series of photos taken here in this spot. Only a couple more of these sorts of shots left I think. I will try and get some more nature shots in sometime for those of you who like those.
Sorry about the big preview image, its the best way I could come up with to show a little piece of each desktop without posting 8 images, click the image to download the set of 8 desktops. Remember, these are not for commercial use! Feel free to use them as your desktop wallpaper and send your friends a link to the site but please ask before using them for anything else, thanks and enjoy!
Play
Spring
I Have had a couple of requests now for some desktops with a bit more of a spring feeling which is a reasonable request I thought so I shot these as a response, I will shoot some more as I find some images that I think represent spring without being too terribly cliché if thats possible 
As always, these are to be used for your own personal use and not for any commercial use. Thanks for understanding, click the desktop you would like to have and you will be on your way to a fresh start for your computing day.
Sight
Another exciting entry in my dirty wooden floor corner series. Some of you may recognize one of these from my flickr page and now you can have one of your very own! I just really like these sunglasses and the light from this old window was a perfect compliment to them I thought. I believe these were my grandmothers sunglasses and have a nice vintage look and surely some sentimental value to some. I just love the color the light casts through them onto this brown floor and this was one of my favorite things to shoot in this space… More from this series is yet to come so just keep checking back over the week for more!
Because these are similar in context I have decided to simply release them as a desktop pack so you can download them all in one click and make your pick in the comfort of your own time and space. Please please please respect my terms of use and dont use these for any sort of commercial use. I love putting these images up for everyone but it makes it hard for me to do this when I find people using them for profit without asking me… details in the zip download which is this link right here.
Also, as always, enjoy!
Plastic Things
Here we have the plastic frog and his plastic insect friends. Originally taken as a Polaroid I decided to also shoot this digitally for use in a desktop and while I prefer the polaroid I like these as well. This is another shot in my series of shots of random things taken in this nice spot with a foggy window and a nice dirty wooden floor. I have a few more shots from this series as well which I will slowly add here to the site. Enjoy!
Download the desktop you would like by simply clicking on an image below! Legal things are contained inside the file and I simply ask that these not be use for any sort of commercial use…
Taking Control
I find that I have a number of desktops ready to post so I will slowly start to add them to the site starting with this one here. Its more vintage goodness for everyone.. I enjoy taking photos in front of this window and I hope that I have time to shoot a couple more things in front of it before I can not access the spot anymore. Actually, the other desktops I have to post are also things photographed here in this spot.. Anyways, I remember using this controller when I was younger to play games on one of my families old old macs and thought it would be fun to shoot.. I have a Polaroid version of the shot here.
To download the desktops simply click the image you would like. Legal details about the use of this photo are inside the zip you download, please, no commercial use of this without asking and dont be afraid to ask. Never hurts, right? Enjoy!
Dusty
Taking advantage of access to a big empty old building full of junk to photograph and a few great spots for light and old dusty aesthetics I have shot a handful of new desktops. These three are just the first ones which did not fit in with the others. I have some others that I will post a little later on as package downloads with different versions for you to choose from. Until then I hope you find something you like here… enjoy!
Simply click the image below you would like to download. These desktops are for your own personal use! This means no commercial use.
Nostalgia
I recently dug up an old Polaroid camera long forgotten. Not one of the trendy interesting old ones, just a boring looking old gray one from who knows when. I figured since the film for it was not going tobe made any more that I should shoot a bit with it and I also thought it would work well for something I wanted to do with Polaroids so I went and found somewhere that still had a few rolls sitting on its shelf and bought 4 rolls of it. Damn this stuff is expensive! Fifteen Dollars for 10 photos seems a bit steep to me at least.
I flew through the first ten just getting an idea of how the camera handled and after thinking up interesting ways of combating the automatic flash which apparently can not be turned off I got a few nice shots out of it. I can see why this way of shooting has become trendy again, Its like an instant darkroom and to see the image appear there in front of you is a nice feeling really. This and the not quite perfect exposures and focus can lead to happy accidents.
So you may or may not see a few Polaroid photos pop up here or in my flickr stream in the coming weeks as I shoot through the remaining 30 or so photos I have left to take. Heres to nostalgia…
Vintage Sight/Sound
Its interesting how the advancement of various technologies always seem to be speeding up faster and faster as time crawls forward. It would seem that within these rapid advancements people have begun to rebel against the new digital age in small ways and trends have been born of classic, early ideas and products.
Within photography you see countless photographers like myself feeling a bit overwhelmed by the never ending photographs that come pouring in from digital SLR’s around the world. Its suddenly become so easy to shoot until something looks good and let the computer do the rest for you. As with any modern trend, such as digital photography, there seems to always be some sort of counterpoint that comes into the light and in this case I notice an obvious trend to go backwards a bit and use film instead. Many people seem to be hooked on old technologies that resulted in a unique aesthetic that digital cameras cannot seem to emulate. Maybe I’m simply pointing out the obvious here but for the sake of making some sort of statement along with my new set of desktops I thought I would start up some sort of discussion in the process.
At any rate, my personal attraction to using film is simply because I started out my photography using film and a darkroom and after a few years of messing about with the digital medium I found myself craving the unique feeling that you get from using a film camera. I just love the organic nature of it all.
So in the spirit of the past meeting the present I have a small pack of desktops taken with my digital Canon 5D of my old film camera, my Canonet. Surely there are some of you, like myself that can appreciate the best of both worlds…
Click the image below to download the three desktop wallpapers and please, no commercial use is permitted without my permission, thanks!
As the title of the post suggested, photography is not the only thing I wanted to feature. As someone who works in the audio industry I notice that withing this business there are more trends than any other. Funny thing is that within the technology of sound reproduction you can only do so much with speakers and microphones due to the simple physics behind it all and some of the ridiculous things that the big audio companies come up with to market their products are just that, kind of ridiculous. One of the most commonly seen trends as of late however, is vintage gear. Especially in microphones. New products trying to emulate old sounds. Its always interesting to try and keep up with what people are buying and why.
So anyway, I was sitting around one day wanting to take some photos in the amazing light of these huge windows at the new building the company I work for is in and thought it might be interesting to shoot some images of some old vintage microphones we have around from Electro-Voice and RCA. I was happy with the way they came out so hopefully you guys will enjoy them as well.
Just click the image below to download the desktop pack and as with all the desktops I release these are for personal use only! Thanks for understanding and enjoy!
