A Year of Backgrounds

Last year, I decided to take some of my favorite landscape photos and turn them into computer backgrounds. I added the month to the photo and saved it as a background on my computers. Starting my computer every day and seeing a photo I took as my background always brought a smile to my face. 

As I was making my 2024 backgrounds, I decided to also make corresponding backgrounds for my phone too. I figured if I saw a photo that I took every time I looked at my phone and computer, I would see something that I really loved.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I will this year!

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Here are the desktop backgrounds:

The phone backgrounds are formatted to fit perfectly on your phone's screen:

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To download any of these backgrounds, right click and choose save. 

I hope you enjoy these backgrounds and you have a wonderful 2024!

[[Trust the magic of new beginnings]]

Shutterbug: Landscape Photography

If you have known me for any amount of time, you know I love taking photos and my camera roll is filled with all the things that catch my eye during the day. One of my favorite things to photograph is landscapes and over the years I have taken some really beautiful photos of landscapes from my travels. I've previously talked about how I have been using different photos each month as my background on my computer. 

I wanted to share them with you today. The locations are below each photo.

Beachwood, NJ

Ocean Gate, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Bayville, NJ

Sandy Hook, NJ

Toms River, NJ

Waretown, NJ

Hometown, NJ

South Seaside Park, NJ

Seaside Heights, NJ

State Marina, NJ

Toms River, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Bayville, NJ

State Marina, NJ

Middletown, NJ

Elizabeth, NJ

Cream Ridge, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Ocean Gate, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Howell, NJ

Asheville, NC

Blue Ridge Mountains, NC

Hometown, NJ

Bamber Lake, NJ

Middletown, NJ

Panama City Beach, FL

Panama City Beach, FL

Hometown, NJ

Bamber Lake, NJ

Island Beach State Park, NJ

Hometown, NJ

Panama City Beach, FL

As I have gotten older, photographs have become some of my favorite souvenirs. These are moments that I deemed something I want to remember forever. 

I have chosen some of these photos and got them made into 8x10 size photos to hang in my office. 

Do you take photos of places you always want to remember?

[[To me, photography is an art of observation. Its about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I've found ithas little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.-Elliott Erwitt]]