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Found on reddit one day and I love it.

It's somebody's cat pic they posted to Reddit a couple years ago. This cat is my spirit animal.

This one. I think I found it on a wallpaper subreddit, back at the time, before the fire nation attacked.

This is my phone one. I'm pretty sure I got it from the Amoled wallpapers subreddit a few years back.

My laptop wallpaper is a picture my wife took of me walking in the park holding hands with one of my kids. It's taken from behind and it looks like I'm guiding her on a journey, which of course I am. :)

I wasn't going to post it but there's nothing overly dox-y in it so here is a heavily scaled down version:

This is an extreme close up of a painting I liked in the National Portrait Gallery in DC.

I have a steam summer sale 2021 picture right now, i think it looks nice. I sort of forgot it was from a game a while.

I don’t think this needs any clarification.

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I just thought this was cute

Shot I took at a local park

Picture from a ski holiday in the Dolomites in Italy. The weather made for bad skiing but great photos. They built a restaurant on that view a few years back unfortunately.

Found it on Lemmy:

(Thanks for the cool wallpaper.)

Edit: I upscaled it for you

It is a shot from one of my favourite anime. Plus, I love how the cherry blossoms look even in black and white.

Found it on Lemmy, I think, actually.

My cat:

Was into Dogecoin for the meme in high school, haven't touched crypto in years but now I've become too attached to my background to change it.

I generated it using Midjourney. I like the flowers :)

Oh and the wallpaper on my work laptop:

Russian warship, go fuck yourself.

Mine's a phone. Because it's a phone. Had it so long I don't remember where it came from.

I can't remember where I found this one, I've had it for a while, probably by searching "Oled phone wallpaper".

My PC desktop is a slideshow of some of my own wildlife photos. My favorite one features this fuzzy friend:

I got it from reddit a few years ago. I think it was the infrared veiw of the center of our galaxy, rotated

Closeup picture of one of our hens. They have such cool patterns and colors.

Bonus:

Shot them myself.

Mine is the derpiest of deeps. I love her more than everything.

No clue where it came from. I’ve been using this for about four years now.

Lock screen

Home screen (i applied a black tint since i had trouble reading white text against it)

I got them from lurking r/wallpaper though I wish i knew more of their original sources

From https://lemmy.ca/c/wallpapers

Mine is a shot of our yard in the dark

It's a photo i took of one of those big ass beams where boats "park" on a foggy but very blue early morning, during a time in my life i was leaving at night on little "suicide walks" with my camera.

It's not a very great or visual photograph, i put a teal filter over it as it's my wife's favorite color and photography sort of saved me while my wife saved me the first time i got lost in this suicidal rut.

Covid really screwed us over (it wasn't just covid, right before we tried to buy a house after years of saving with the help of friends we trusted but shouldn't have), no income, no house, no safety net...just a backpack and a fresh start during the worst possible time ever.

I got so lost in having no faith left that the job interview i did manage to land, i needed someone to pick me up halfway and take me there...i just collapsed and believed i wouldn't get out of this hole. I never got that job but being at the bottom of the pit only leaves you with one direction to go: up.

And up we went...eventually, very slowly.

I'm not sharing the image as it's mine and mine alone, it's my pain, my struggle, my lesson and my strength.

I might actually have it printed and on my wall someday.

A picture I took from the heights of Pretty River Valley Provincial Park, Ontario, on a rainy Friday afternoon last August, as the clouds rolled across the sky and into the forest

It's a photo I took while out on a walk. A hoverfly on a sunflower.

I try to post interesting shots to mastodon and c/pics and help grow Lemmy and the fediverse.

I drew it, cuz I like pokeymans.

I've been using a bunch of abstract backgrounds I generated using Midjourney a while ago. This is my current use one.

It's a closeup view of the glass on my wood stove. I ran it through a couple filters. The green one is on my lock screen. Then it's the red one when I unlock.

Procedurally generated by an app called Tapet.

I use the blue one for my wallpaper, and the red one for my lock screen.

My lockscreen is a photo I snapped at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago. On the one hand it represents a very personal memory. On the other I just find it aesthetically pleasing, so maybe someone else might as well? Thanks for posting your favorites, by the way!

edit: this version isn't cropped right, sorry, but if you take the middle part it should fit nicely on a phone.