A collection of images that include words: Quotes from famous people, familiar sayings, song lyrics, proverbs, and witticisms are at home in this category.
Is a penny saved really worth a penny earned? Does whoever pays the piper actually call the tune? Strike while the iron's hot and you still may find it was close, but no cigar... These aren't idioms; these are the proverbs so basic and in such widespread use we don't usually bother to point out where they came from.
Zen proverbs, Persian proverbs, Navaho proverbs, Swedish proverbs, there are gems of distilled wisdom that cultures and individuals have gleaned over the years worth having as an HD image to use as wallpaper or part of a screensaver, and we collect them here for private, non-commercial re-use.
Since learning that Samuel Clemens (or Mark Twain) once said, "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them," I've tended to agree with Frank Lloyd Wright that, "The truth is more important than the facts." A lot of time can be saved by pondering the truths that famous people have uttered. Here we've collected some of them, including lyrics and poetry excerpts, onto HD wallpaper.
A collection of (mostly minimally processed) photos of the birds and bees (and other animals,) plants, panoramic landscapes, instruments & technology, food & drink, transportation, architecture, and sundry other subjects in a variety of sizes cropped and ready for private individuals to use as HD wallpaper for their smartphones, laptops, tablets and computers.
The visible features, the panoramic vista of an particular area, a collection of the physical features sometimes called landforms, as seen through the eyes of photographers; digital photographs for your desktop background or profile.
From leaves to flowers, photos of plant life are serene and make excellent backdrops to our daily use of hard, digital devices (from iPhones and iPads to full-fledged computers.) Bring a little hd wallpaper onto your high tech devices as a reminder to stop and smell the roses.
Digital photos of animals such as birds and other animals available for private, non-commercial re-use. Download beautiful images from the animal kingdom to serve as hd wallpaper on your iPhone, desktop computer, twitter profile, etc.
HD wallpaper from photos of food and drink - from fresh produce to carefully produced wine and beyond, these images are suitable for use as backgrounds or hd wallpaper on digital devices from computers to smartphones.
Still life art give leaves composition and arrangement to the artist's imagination: subject elements rely heavily on man-made and/or natural inanimate objects such as pottery, rocks, food, flowers, plants, rocks, books, jewelry, etc., composed either to represent an idea or simply to be pleasing to the eye.
Transportation is an integral feature of modern living - from trains, planes, and other mass-transit to moving goods or getting us quickly and conveniently from point A to point B via bicycles and automobiles, we've got a lot in motion.
Musical instruments, tools, and other technological gadgets photographed, sometimes close-up, other times from a distance that lends context to the picture, collected for private, non-commercial re-use as hd wallpaper on computers, tablets, iPods, smartphones, etc.
Starting life as high-res digital photos, these images have been transformed enough between passing through the lens and arriving in this album that it's just not right to simply call them photos anymore.
An album of original digital art for private, non-commercial re-use as HD wallpaper, screensavers, or whatever/however you prefer on a smartphone, tablet, or computer: fractals, mosaics, impressionistic paintings and abstracts, even monograms - from the concrete to the strangely fantastic and surreal, they're collected here.
Color, shape, form, and line not intended to represent specific objects or places - digital compositions that draw the eye in without necessarily seeking a deeper meaning, from subtle and serene to highly-energetic, these files are often unlike any other images collected elsewhere and are intended for the private enjoyment of individuals. Commercial re-use or reproduction is expressly prohibited.
Iterated functions that we'd now call fractals have been explored for over 100 years starting with the theories of Poincaré, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia despite lacking the means to render visualizations. Representations known as Mandelbrot sets started appearing in the 1960s, and ultimately he created the term fractal in the mid 1970s to describe figures with intriguingly complex topological dimensions that have sprung into modern awareness through the use of computers to render the designs.
Artists often like to suggest or represent places or things without detail, relying on color and form to imply or evoke the scene as you view it. Some of the greatest impressionist artists were Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Renoir, but their work isn't here - these are the works of modern, digital artists intended for private enjoyment as backgrounds and screensavers on digital device such as iPhones and computers. Commercial re-use is expressly prohibited.
The process of assembling images from small pieces could describe most artistic processes that don't rely on removal, such as whittling wood or carving stone - even pointillism. Diverse digital composition elements merge to form the mosaics here into images that range from recognizable to obscure, but they all make wonderful hd wallpaper for your smartphone or computer.
A growing collection of tributes to individual letters: call this an album of monograms or a tribute to typography, it's images ready to be used as hd wallpaper that call to mind specific characters of the alphabet.
Some of these images are transformations based on photographs, many are other-worldly creations that simply flowed from the artist's fantastic mind - some of the most unique hd wallpaper you'll find anywhere for your use as a profile background online or hd wallpaper on your digital devices.
Images of widely varying size and shape that can be used readily wherever a tiling effect is used to fill the screen, or a portion of it. Elegant HD wallpaper for your digital spaces no matter what size or aspect ratio. This is no Penrose gallery!
When you want a dark visual field that's not just one color that really "fades into the background" so the eye can concentrate on the foreground, here are some very un-chaotic, visually calm images that tile seamlessly into hd wallpaper for your digital spaces.
Sometimes you need a light or bright visual field that's not just one color yet still "fades into the background" so the eye can concentrate on dark objects in the foreground. These are the visually smooth, very un-chaotic, calm images that tile seamlessly into hd wallpaper for your digital spaces.
When you want a dark visual field that's visually lively yet still works as a seamless background wallpaper so the eye can concentrate on the foreground, here are some mostly dark chiaroscuro images that tile nicely as hd wallpaper for your digital spaces while providing bright/lighter patches - used with thought and care they spell the end of boring backgrounds.
A light/bright images that's lively (not boring) can become a marvelous seamless background wallpaper so the eye can concentrate on mostly darker foreground objects can be hard to find. We've collected chiaroscuro images that tile nicely as light-colored hd wallpaper while not ignoring the dark end of the brightness range or hue spectrum to ensure ho-hum backgrounds don't plague your digital spaces or devices. Handle with care!
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