Macro Wallpaper

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I've had fun with photography for many years, and I especially enjoy macro photography. Whenever I'm on a trip, I keep my eye out for interesting subjects and textures. You should see some of the strange looks I get when I'm standing about 6 inches from a wall taking photographs of stucco, wood, or bricks. I get even stranger looks when I spend time taking photographs of the floor. Anyway, I keep a folder on my computer full of macro shots that make good desktop wallpaper. Here are four "natural" shots of leaves and flowers that I thought you might enjoy. All images have been resized to 1280 x 1024, and they're around 275KB each.

As a point of interest, the first photograph (palm leaf...oops, Ravages points out that this is most likely a Banana leaf) was taken in front of Ernest Hemingway's home in Key West, Florida. You'll notice that it's the same image I've used for the header graphic of my blog.

Let me know if you'd like me to post more of these. I have quite a few.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2004
    Fantastic work. Out of curiosity, what kind of camera do you use?

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2004
    Just a little thing. That isn't palm leaf. At-least, I don't think it is. They lok mighty like Banana leaves to me. I have half a dozen of those trees in my house.

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2004
    Hey! Thanks! Didn't expect the change, nor the trackback. :)

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2004
    New wallpaper user...I currently use a Nikon Coolpix 5700 (http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25504). It has excellent built-in macro capabilities.

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2004
    Good work, I like the photos, never knew they were called Macro photos..

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2005
    I've received a few e-mails asking me about the wallpaper that shows up on the laptop in my recent Adobe...

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2006
    awesome work! now my desktop's got a brand new look'n'feel. thanks!

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2006
    So, that leaf one ended up in windows vista? Congratulations

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2008
    Hello Mike, I particularly like the Gerbera Macro! I'm in the process of putting together a site for a company called 'Gerbera', any chance I can use your image? Steve.

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2008
    Beautiful, it´s so great. You need this. Thank you Swanson. You need to visite our City (Natal RN - Brazil). It's like your wallpapers.