Thoreau & Beyond





 

Desktop Wallpapers

Walden Pond Transcendent Background

 

The main background image for this website — that is, the large picture of Walden Pond behind the parchment scroll — was created from a public domain photograph of the pond which is freely available on Wikimedia Commons and used under their Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

That photo looks like this...


View original photo at Wikimedia Commons 

...which I then converted into a tiling background for use as my background image for this website, and which you can download in both standard and widescreen formats...


Standard


Widescreen

Mind you, I’m not sure why anyone would want to use my tiling version as a background image (wallpaper) for their computer or mobile device — the original photo, which you can get for free from the link above, is obvously more “real” and only naturally looks better for that purpose — but if for any reason anyone would have a need for this photo done in a way that tiles, i.e. which repeats seamlessly, then please do feel free to make use what I came up with here.

And do note that these versions which I created tile not only top-to-bottom, but left-to-right, too! And you can sqush them or stretch them to whatever size you might want, and they will still tile perfectly.

Here is the same image in a square 500×500 pixel version — click through to see how that one looks as a background for a web page, with no text, tiling both top/bottom as well as left/right (use your browser’s “back” button to return to this page...


Click to view as a tiling web page background

Both the standard and widescreen higher-resolution versions, above, can be resized to whatever proportions and/or aspect ratio that you might like — all the various versions presented here are based on the same working file, and all will tile seamlessly equally well.

However, other than as a full-width background image for a web page, or perhaps for your computer or mobile device, I honestly can’t imagine what use anyone would have for these tiling versions — but feel free to use these images any way that you’d like! You don’t have to credit this website for them, although only naturally that would be appreciated if you’re so inclined. :-)

 





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