| It took me some time to learn a true thing about photography... When I was younger, I took a camera with me to some of the places I traveled. The first time I went out west, I saw these amazing open landscapes with skies that didn't end. And getting to the rockies or sierras, I was just awestruck. And I took pictures with my camera. But years later I looked at them, and the images of landscapes were "fine". However, the photos that stood the test of time were the ones with people in them. One family member, even scratching their nose was 10x a landscape. Even my motorcycle accidentally captured to the side of the image was better than a pristine landscape photo with perfect composition and lighting. So good background images capture things on more than one level. Another hack I found fun was to make background images in places very familiar to myself. Uniform photos of the stone walkway at my parents house, or the green grass of their backyard are abstract and non-distracting but familiar and calming backgrounds I like. There are some exceptions I do make. I do like some city images I find on wikipedia, such as: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Toledo_%... or the textured background of this image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Unmatina... |
