I was going through my old files recently when I came across the first computer desktop wallpaper I made with my own photos.
This collage features Rufus, our Labrador retriever, and I took these photos in 2006.
When I took the first photo I’d called down to Rufus but he hadn’t yet figured out where I was calling from. The second photo shows him figuring it out. And the third photo is his reaction upon seeing me.
Collage of three vertically-sliced photos, each taken moments apart, of a yellow Labrador retriever dog sitting on a patch of dirt and looking up at the photographer. In the first photo the dog looks puzzled as it tries to figure out where the photographer is calling him from. In the middle photo he looks up and sees the photographer. In the third photo his tail starts wagging and he is happy to see the photographer.
The collage above is a 1024×768 pixel image, so you can tell how long ago I made it!
The only other photos of mine of I’ve used as wallpapers are these ones from a trip to Alice Springs, Uluru, and Kata Tjuta in 2010.
Photo of Kata Tjuta, a group of domed rock formations in a desert that has red sand and patchy green flora (shrubs and trees) that gets denser the closer you get to the rocks.
These photos are 1920×1080 pixels in size, so you can tell I’d upgraded my monitor in the intervening years :)
Photo looking down at several footprints in red/brown desert sand.
I do love a good computer wallpaper, and I’ve collected dozens, if not hundreds, of excellent images over the years.
I’ve never used any of my other photos as wallpapers though. There’s no need to, when there are so many other excellent options out there – some of which I’ve been very happy to for, like the ones from Vlad Studio.
The monitor I’m working on now is an ultrawide 3840×1600 pixels, by the way, and this is my current wallpaper.
Close-up photo of hundreds of rounded pebbles in many dark shades of black and red.