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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.

Been driving this one for a while. (iirc found it on Reddit)

As for PC - black screen

I got promo wallpaper inspired by game SUPERHOT from the gaming news website.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Found it on tumblr, actually. Back when Android first introduced adaptive colours all through the OS, I was looking for something that gave me nice ones, and this one stuck.

I think this was from the pixel art sub. I've been using it for a few years, with I could find some similar ones.

I made it with AI.

I'm using the KDE "Mountain" wallpaper on my desktop, which seems to be based on an image of the Annapurna massif in Nepal by Daniel Leone on Unsplash

My phone wallpaper is this mountain one from Alex Rainer on Unsplash (I like dark wallpapers like this for OLED screens):

Unsplash and pixabay can be good for finding high-res images to use as wallpapers
Sidenote: if anyone wants I can share the high res KDE wallpaper image, it disappeared from my system when I tried out a plasma 6 RC and I had to extract it from a different system to get it back

Someone took and uploaded this photo to an analog photography subreddit ages ago, it’s been my background for 4 or 5 phones now. I just love the image, I’m not entirely sure why.

source

Edit: What the hell, reddit. That dumb banner is not on the version I use, obviously.

Forehead-slapping moment: After broswing this thread and trying to figure out the weird aspect ratios, I realised that you guys are using custom wallpapers on your mobile phones.

Bioshock inifnite, one of my favorite games. Can’t remember what I even had on my phone before this

Found on r/space ages ago. Plane flying through someone shot of a ring nebula.

My solution is a bit eccentric: I wrote a webserver I call Wallpaper Garden that let's you define crops of tour collection at different aspect ratios and then serves them via a random endpoint or RSS feed. Then I consume the random endpoint from a Tasker script on my phone and watch and the RSS feeds from John's Background Switcher on my PC.

My collection is made up mostly of game press kit images (Destiny, Blizzard, Skyrim, Nintendo, etc.) but also some default OS stuff, random high-res images from Reddit, astronomy photos/collages by A. James McCarthy, and some other random stuff

Current set:

Pure black because it saves battery and lifespan with an OLED screen.

wallpaper.

edit of original image which is probably some type of edit itself. no idea from which castle this is sourced.

From an app called Retrowave Wallpapers. It is constantly moving towards the horizon too. I like it.

I tend to use screenshots from games that I'm playing, especially pretty games like Jedi: Survivor or Cyberpunk. Currently I have this Cyberpunk screenshot:

Mine is a scrolling city gif,I got it from reddit and I use gif live wallpaper from fdroid to use it

Mammon reading the business section, a comic cover from Black Monday Murders. Because I work in accounting and just love this image and the whole idea. I do own these in print. Just image searched on Google.

Most of my desktop wallpapers come from r/earthporn on Reddit, on mobile I like to use stuff I found on r/art. Here's a few that I'm using right now.

But I have a rather large collection of wallpapers sourced from all over the place like Reddit, various artboards, different operating systems, archived websites etc..

Can't upload images for some reason :/

Desktop https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6Az0r

Mobile https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8zPbG

This one I use on my pc, it's from Fallout New Vegas.

I use this one on my phone, it's a mix up of adventure time and bloodborne. I found them both on reddit some time ago, but don't know the exact subreddits.

It's the famous 'Featured art' of the day, from the Muzei wallpaper changer app.

The artwork details are,

Broek in Waterland

Jan Toorop, 1889

Home screen:

Lock screen:

I just searched "space phone wallpaper" and picked those.

Using a gif wallpaper app I found to use apply this as the background. Definitely not the best for battery but I like it!

Recorded from this p5js art I made

My Pixel phone comes with a feature called Emoji Workshop, allowing me to make custom emoji wallpapers.

This one is my lockscreen:

Created a program to generate mandelbrot fractals long before I had a smartphone. I've regenerated this one in different resolutions for each phone I've had.

From Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/50785054@N03

Home (just a default wallpaper):

Lock (found here):

For desktop I have 20+ wallpapers but this is one my favorites (don't remember where I found it):

I use a live wallpaper. Day and night. Shows an ever moving pastoral scene. It changes depending on the time of day and the weather