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September wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853. *The first versions I posted gave you one extra day, which is good for some but confusing the rest of the world. They’re fixed now.

I shot this in Iceland in the driving rain, with a 24mm/3.5 tilt/shift lens. So struck by the vastness of space in Iceland, and the almost tiny influence of man on the landscape, I decided to explore some of those themes. This is one of my favourite images from that trip, and it now hangs large – 40×60 – on canvas in my home. You can explore all the Iceland images, and my process in creating them, on September 9th when we launch the next eBook in the Craft & Vision library.

I’m off to Ladakh, Thailand, and the Kathmandu valley on Sept.10. After that it gets quiet, but I promise I’ll check in when I can with a postcard.

Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one. And if you want one for the iPad, sans monthly calendar, click the iPad:

August wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853.

I shot this in Gasworks Park in Seattle as a creative exercise exploring abstracts on a theme – the theme of this simply being blue. This is a closer view of  larger piece of machinery, de-focused to allow the shapes and colours to interact without the need to be something specific. Not my usual thing but in the coming year there’s a good chance you’ll see a little more of this as I work at stirring my own paint creatively.

I’m in Iceland until the 9th 0r 10th. With any luck I’ll check in with you but don’t hold your breath!

Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one.

July wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853.

This is the cover image of the next in The Print & Process series: SAFARI, A Monograph being released through Craft & Vision on July 8th.

Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one.

Vision & Voice goes to press today (yeehaa!), so I’m taking a day off to do other stuff and celebrate with a friend visiting from out of town.So it’s an early weekend for me. And it woulda been an early weekend for you too if you were using the calendar on the wallpaper I posted for this month. I got the days off by one. Sorry. New calendars – you know, ones that correspond with actual reality – have now been posted HERE. Sorry about that.

Wow, you blink and the month has gone. As usual this one just snuck right up on me. June wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853, get’em while they’re hot. This is one of the images from the Venice Monograph being released through Craft & Vision on June 10th.  Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one. *Originally posted wallpapers had the dates wrong. My bad. They’re correct now. Sorry to make y’all crazy.

If you missed it we released a whole wallpaper collection for the Apple iPad last week. There’s a small collection with 7 images for free, and a larger 25-image collection for $5. Complete details, and some screenshots, HERE if you’re looking to give your new iPad a little loving. Of course they’ll work on smaller laptops, netbooks, iPhones, etc., as well. Enjoy.

OK, I admit it, when the iPad was announced it elicited little more than a yawn from me. Then I got one, really just to test the eBooks on them for Craft & Vision. In short, I am an absolute believer. This will change the way we consume media, the way we learn, and the way we share our photography. I love my iPad. Everyone I know that owns one is a raving lunatic about the thing, and here in Canada it releases on Friday and the gentle Canuck nation can finally get their hands on one. When things get too much hype I often get suspicious. We Canadians are like that. But I don’t think I am overstating my case when I say that for sharing photographs, this gorgeous little piece of over-hyped hardware is going to change everything.

Anyways, a couple things that are only partly iPad related. Andrew S. Gibson’s second volume of his The Magic of Black & White series is coming out tomorrow, and with it a discount on the rest of the eBooks. Keep an eye open here, or on your inbox if you’ve purchased previous books. Andrew’s stuff is excellent if you’re wanting to create fantastic black and white images from your colour captures, and this one promises to be a favourite in the library, especially among folks that want to improve their black and white chops. So that leads me to the iPad things.

Moving forward the Craft & Vision eBooks are now being laid out for the iPad. If you get a PDF reader like GoodReader, you’ll be able to read them the way they were intended. We don’t do ePub because it blows apart the layouts, and the usual PDF way of things won’t allow you to view things in 2-Up. So, all that to say – same great experience for laptoppers and desktop users, and you can still print these if you want, but for the folks on iPhone or iPad, you’ll love the experience.

Secondly, I’ve had a number of requests to do something with my wallpapers. I could have made an app or something but the amount of time and energy seemed too much. So I did something easier. I’ve created a collection of 24 wallpapers for the iPad. That’s 2 years of wallpapers if you switch them monthly. But they have no calendars. Just pure photographic goodness. And I’m conscious of nickle-and-diming y’all to death, so here’s what I am going to do. There are two links down below. One is to a free collection of 6 wallpapers. Free, full-res, no catch. But there are only 6 (see above, do the math, you’ll see we threw in a seventh). And one is to the full collection. 24 Wallpapers, $5. If you’re saving your dimes for the eBooks – there are two coming out in the coming weeks – then you can still get in on the loving. If you’d be happy to give up a latte and shell out $5 for the full collection so I can buy my Craft & Vision team a latte instead, you can do that too. Either way, enjoy. See you here tomorrow for the big release of the next Craft&Vision book.

These wallpapers are around 1200×800-ish, so they’ll look great on anything from iPhones to Netbooks to 13″Macbooks. And iPads too!

Get the free Jr. Collection HERE with our thanks for being part of the community. Enjoy!

Get the Full Collection and declare your allegiance to beauty and all things good for $5 here:

May wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853, get’em while they’re hot. This is Camogli, a gorgeous and under-touristed town compared to others in this area. Lovely people, great views, awesome food and wine. Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click  HERE for the larger one.

If you missed the action, the latest eBook Vision Is Better, got released this week. Be sure to get the discounts while they apply. Limited time offer!

Next stop, Venice. It’s supposed to rain the whole time I’m there and for some reason I am quite excited about that. Bad weather can be great light. I’ll drop a line when I can, see you then.

Here’s the April 2010 wallpaper in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853, shot en route to the Maasai Mara this past January. We stopped to pee at the equator, to see a demonstration of the Coriolis effect, and for some die-hards to buy yet another wooden giraffe.

This ought to both make up for the month of pink we’ve just had and get your wanderlust peaked all at the same time. I head to Italy soon, and Mexico after that, so with any luck this might be the last you see of Kenya for a while

Click the image above to get the small wallpaper, and HERE to get the large one. Enjoy!

Here’s the March 2010 wallpaper in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853, shot en route to the Maasai Mara this past January. Apologies for the late posting, but what i lack in punctuality I make up for with, uh, pink.

Click the image above to get the small wallpaper, and HERE to get the large one. Enjoy!

Here’s the February 2010 wallpaper in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853, shot on the Maasai Mara this past January. I ran this through NiK Software’s fantastic Silver Efex and added a texture, which is a little out of the usual for me, but 2010 is the year for me to play and try new things. Sometimes they’ll work, other times not so much.

Be back from Senegal on Feb 13.

Click the image above to get the small wallpaper, and HERE to get the large one. Enjoy!