Wallpaper Alley Blog

Flickr user ๑ Adam’s put up a cool photograph of star trails over Berner Oberland, Switzerland.

>> Star Trails
 

Over at Flickr, a user named thexfile has a tropical photo that really caught my eye. The palm tree looks sharp and the water so clear. I would give almost anything to be on this beach!

This is just one of many very cool photograph’s you will find from this user.

>> Palm Leaning Wallpaper

Web Design Library has an interesting tutorial on how to take a photograph and add an abstract twist to it. In this example they start with a photograph of some clouds.

>> Abstract cloud wallpaper tutorial

While I was at a Memorial Day parade today there were a pair of A-10 Thunderbolt II jets that flew overhead. It’s always a treat to see these aircraft in person…..well, at least on peaceful terms. I can see why they are feared on the battlefield - they can literally turn on a dime, not to mention their 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun mounted on the nose.

This was the perfect opportunity for me to snap a couple of shots to see if I could get anything wallpaper worthy. While these are not the most close up shots in the world, having them against a clear blue sky makes for a clean uncluttered wallpaper.

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Derek over at 5ThirtyOne has some cool shots taken at a boat yard and is providing them as widescreen (2560 x 1600) wallpapers. Actually, there are 4 and you can download them in a nice little 8MB zip file.

>> Seattle Wooden Boatyard Wallpapers

Micheal Bay recently released some hi-res artwork from the upcoming Transformers movie to be released this summer.

Car enthusiast site dieselstation.com was nice enough to put together some wallpapers from that artwork.

I grew up watching Transformers in the 80’s so I’m pretty excited to see how well the old cartoon will translate using today’s CGI capabilities.

>> Transformers Wallpapers

Welcome to wallpaperalley.com. My hope is to build this into a reliable and respectable wallpaper site directory/search engine.  Nothing is automated and no link farming can be found here. I will be maintaining this site myself by hand…..I must be crazy, but I think it will work.

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 If you are someone who creates wallpapers and have your own website, I encourage you to submit your site.

I, myself, have been running my own wallpaper/personal website since 2001.

This is my first attempt at blogging and creating a directory based site. I will usually keep my posts short, to the point….and hopefully on topic.

With that said, let’s get this ball rolling!