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Macro Wallpaper

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.

Published Monday, September 06, 2004 10:06 PM by mswanson
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# re: Macro Wallpaper

Fantastic work. Out of curiosity, what kind of camera do you use?
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:50 AM by New wallpaper user

# Michael Mystical Macro Wallpaper's

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:30 AM by notgartner.com: Mitch Denny's Blog

# Macro Wallpaper

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:51 AM by Martin's WebLog

# re: Macro Wallpaper

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.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:18 AM by Ravages

# re: Macro Wallpaper

Hey! Thanks! Didn't expect the change, nor the trackback. :)
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:21 AM by Ravages

# re: Macro Wallpaper

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.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:57 PM by Michael Swanson

# re: Macro Wallpaper

Good work, I like the photos, never knew they were called Macro photos..
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:59 AM by Hellsbellboy

# re: Macro Wallpaper

Wonderful backgrounds! I find it difficult to find good high res backgrounds of nature that I like! Since fall is coming, have any good macro shots of fall leaves? Thanks again for the pictures!
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:22 PM by Bebo

# Macro Wallpaper 2

Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:26 PM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Glass Windows Wallpaper and 3D Animated Desktop

Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:51 PM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Macro Wallpaper 3: Fallpaper

Monday, October 11, 2004 12:18 AM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Macro Wallpaper 5

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:02 AM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# Little High, little low

Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:24 AM by Martin's Alcoholic Diary

# Macro Wallpaper 6

I've received a few e-mails asking me about the wallpaper that shows up on the laptop in my recent Adobe...
Friday, July 22, 2005 8:55 PM by Michael Swanson's Blog

# re: Macro Wallpaper

awesome work! now my desktop's got a brand new look'n'feel. thanks!
Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:00 AM by marc

# re: Macro Wallpaper

So, that leaf one ended up in windows vista? Congratulations

Friday, October 20, 2006 11:44 PM by Ben

# re: Macro Wallpaper

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.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:09 PM by Steve Howe

# Hiper Wallpaper

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.

Friday, June 13, 2008 5:26 PM by Marcos

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