文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Desktop Backgrounds' CategoryPosts with desktop-background images I’ve made A few days after I posted a photo of a vine on a bamboo fence (see the image at the lower left), I went back to see it in a different light. I was surprised to see how much the vine had withered away in just four days (image lower right). Original (in 10am shade) Four Days Later (in 3pm sun)You can also see how harsh the direct sun of the second is, compared with the morning shade of the first. Harsh sun or not, I thought some of the other shots I got that day might make a [...] 
View full post » This post describes how I made the funky-color Kyoto fall leaves image from the other day. I'd wanted to check out the vine growing through a bamboo fence again, in afternoon light (as opposed to the morning shade I'd seen it in before), so I went back on Wednesday afternoon. It was a productive visit, with a few shots of the fence that will certainly find their way here in the future. However, the subject of today's post is what I saw when I looked up. Kyoto's impressive autumn colors are in full force now, but there are [...] 
View full post » This perhaps looks like a painting or a photo with a painting effect applied, but it's actually a combination of three photos I took yesterday, with no other special effects added. I'll describe how I made it in a later post; it's my hope for now that you'll simply be able to enjoy it. The part shown above is just a small portion of the whole image, so that I could show some detail lost during the reduction required to fit a picture onto my blog. Even at that, it's from a version that was reduced to 25% of the [...] 
View full post » More pictures from my outing yesterday to Konpukuji Temple and Enkouji Temple, for their fall foliage. This time I present a few desktop backgrounds, and as I did with the Cherry-Blossom Desktops, I'm providing both standard and widescreen versions. The two "standard" sizes are appropriate for common 4 × 3 displays, while the "widescreen" versions are appropriate for Apple MacBooks and Cinema Displays, up to an expansive 2,560 × 1,660. Those first two pictures are of the same garden, so they show how dynamic the view was: sometimes a lot of red & orange, and sometimes a lot of [...] 
View full post » I know it's not the season for cherry blossoms (except in the Southern Hemisphere?), but I'm finally getting around to processing photos from last spring and ran across two blossom photos that make fantastic desktop backgrounds. They perhaps don't look like much in the small versions shown here, but follow the links to the large sizes for gorgeous, delicious desktop-worthy images. Here's the first one: Standard: 1600 × 1200 Widescreen: 1280 × 800 - 1440 × 900 - 1680 × 1050 - 1920 × 1200 - 2560 × 1600The 1,600×1,200 size is appropriate [...] 
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