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Wednesday Wallpaper: Fractal Fun #1
Having given up with Windows as my OS of choice, I have defected into the Linux camp. As such, I went looking for a decent application that could generate fractal pictures and the like. I found one called Gnofract 4D and had a play with it. Here are ...
Wednesday wallpaper: Neon weave
After a brief hiatus, this is the return of the Wednesday wallpaper. This week I have created a variety of images designed to be used as tiled desktop backdrops. The advantage of tiled wallpapers is that they don't use as many system resources as lar...
Wednesday wallpaper: Abstract chaos #5
Here is yet another (and probably the last for now) wallpaper created using the freeware application called Chaoscope. I am going to persevere with the Wallpaper Wednesday McLinky in spite of the underwhelming response. If you are a blogger and wish...
Wednesday wallpaper: Abstract chaos #4
Here is the another wallpaper created using the freeware application called Chaoscope. I would like to encourage any blogger who has a backdrop image to share to join in Wallpaper Wednesday and use the code that you can find towards the bottom of thi...
Wednesday wallpaper: Abstract chaos #3
Here is the third wallpaper that I have created using the freeware application called Chaoscope. I would like to encourage any blogger who has a backdrop image to share to join in Wallpaper Wednesday and use the code that you can find towards the bot...
Wednesday wallpaper: Abstract chaos #2
As I mentioned last week, I recently installed a freeware application called Chaoscope, with which you can render strange attractors and other visualisations of chaotic systems. Here is another image that I created using this excellent piece of softw...
Wednesday wallpaper: Abstract chaos
The Wednesday wallpaper is back!I recently installed a freeware application called Chaoscope, with which you can render strange attractors and other visualisations of chaotic systems. Here is one of my early attempts that I am making available as wal...
Wednesday wallpaper: Stained Glass Window
After a month with no posts here, I have finally managed to get around to creating a new selection of backdrop images. The subject this time is a stained glass window from Bristol Cathedral. The window depicts Sir Robert Fitzharding, the founder of t...
Wenesday wallpaper: Blossom
Spring has most definately sprung here in the UK. I managed to take a few photos of blossom covered trees before their recent shedding. The image is available to be used as a backdrop or wallpaper for your computer. Simply click on the link below tha...
Wednesday wallpaper: The Eiffel Tower and the Seine at night
To mark the yesterday's anniversary of the inauguration of the Eiffel Tower in 1889, I have chosen a photograph of that landmark taken by Sami Dalouche as the subject of the latest set of wallpaper images. Simply click on the link below that matches ...
Wednesday wallpaper: Turner`s The Burning of the Houses of Parliament
On 16th October 1834, the painter J.M.W. Turner witnessed the fire that destroyed the Palace of Westminster. He produced a watercolour sketch of the inferno as he watched, which later became the basis for a number of paintings on the theme. In the se...
Wednesday wallpaper: Turner`s Venice, from the Canale della Giudecca
Continuing the series of wallpapers created from various artworks, this week I present J.M.W. Turner's Venice, from the Canale della Giudecca. The romantic landscape painter completed this work after his third and final visit to Venice in 1840. This ...
Wednesday wallpaper: William Hogarth - Chairing the Member
This week's selection of wallpaper images are taken from the final painting in the Humours of an Election series by the satirical painter and engraver William Hogarth. The four paintings depict the election of a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire i...
Wednesday wallpaper: Canaletto`s London
Today's set of wallpapers are various details of Canaletto's painting of the Thames and the City of London from Richmond House (1747). As ever the wallpapers are available in a selection of sizes to suit the most common screen resolutions.1920 x 1200...
Wednesday wallpaper: Netbook extravaganza
I recently acquired an Acer Aspire One netbook. Its 8.9" screen supports a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Other netbooks, such as the Asus EEE PC 701, have a screen resolution of 800 x 480. As a result of the increasing popularity of these w...
Wednesday wallpaper: Bee
Today's wallpaper is a photograph of a bee gathering pollen from a lavender bush. I was quite pleased with how well this image turned out since it proved that my rather small inexpensive camera could take reasonable close-up photographs. The image is...
Wednesday wallpaper: abstract two-tone tiles
This week I present another set of images suitable for tiling either on your desktop or on webpages. Although these swirling psychedelic images may not be to everyone's taste.Again I have various versions of the same image in different colours. If yo...
Wednesday wallpaper: Groucho tiles
This week's selection of wallpapers are of comedy legend Groucho Marx. These images are designed to be tiled on the desktop, web-page or anywhere else you wish to use them. If you do use them on your web-site it would be good of you to provide a link...
Wednesday wallpaper: Sunset
This weeks wallpaper is a photograph of a particularly colourful sunset taken this summer.As ever I have created a number of version with different dimensions. Simply click on the appropriate link for your screen settings.1920 x 1200 1680 x 1050 1600...
Wednesday wallpaper: Wells Cathedral
In a new weekly feature I will be sharing some images to be used as desktop backgrounds or wallpapers. For the full screen wallpapers I will create a variety of versions for each of the popular screen dimensions; however, if you use a screen size tha...
