Free Photos, Set 05: 104 Mixed Pictures
Set 05 of the BigFoto library: 104 free photos of ban and inn signs, lakes, swans and storm waves, trees and leaves, Swiss towns and gardens, and objects, textures and light trails, grouped by subject below. Click any photo to see it large and download it.
How to download: click a photo to see it large, then use Download. The originals are about 1200 × 800 pixels: right for blog posts, slides, social media, school projects and video call backgrounds.
Signs
No smoking, no parking and no cars signs, a warning triangle, hiking signposts, a Swiss flag and wrought iron inn signs.
Lakes, sky and weather
Balloons and contrails in the sky, a hail shower and storm waves on a lake, a canoe, a jetty, swans and a weir.
Trees, leaves and the countryside
A Swiss farmhouse with a cow, a bench in autumn leaves, bare trees, spider webs, logs and a heart drawn in the snow.
Town, gardens and people
Cafés and chairs, a bicycle full of flowers in Zug, street lamps, garden figures and gnomes, painted house fronts and a crowd.
Objects, textures and light
Rings and sweets, chains, a ship’s wheel, an eye and sunglasses, stone walls, roof tiles and trails of light.
About photography
The development of digital.
Cameras have become more sophisticated. From Kodak’s “You press the button, we do the rest” to “point and shoot” with the automatic focus and exposure of all conceivable camera types. But a century and a half after the “invention” of photography, digital imaging threatened to finish film and make the dark room redundant. All the hard-won skills of photography would be wasted. The threat to conventional photography loomed large with ever increasing numbers of digital cameras, scanners, image-manipulation software, not to mention the World Wide Web. However, apprehension soon turned to the realization that image-making, however achieved, still requires considerable creativity. Instead of opposing conventional photography, digital technology has refreshed photographic practice and opened up new avenues to even the most devoted of conventional photographers. The development of digital photography, especially since the smartphone revolution, has united the old with the new, embracing the best of both worlds.
More free photos
- Free photos, set 04
- Free photos, set 06
- Free lake pictures
- Free sky pictures
- Free close-up pictures
- Free background pictures
Questions about set 05
Can I use these photos for free?
Yes, for personal and commercial projects. All we ask is a link back to BigFoto.com; the box at the top of the page has a credit link you can copy.
Why is this a mixed set?
These photos were added to the library in batches of about a hundred and did not fit one theme or place. They are grouped by subject on this page; the sets before and after it hold more of the same kind of everyday pictures.
