Free Photos, Set 11: 105 Mixed Pictures
Set 11 of the BigFoto library: 105 free photos of signs, lakes at sunset, painted cow sculptures and other street art, trees and fields, town life, and close-ups from beer caps to confetti stars, 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 and pictograms
A cyclist sign, a blind person sign, a wheelchair marking, a red lion, an ice cream cone, an anchor and a removal company sign with camels.
Lakes and water
Sunsets over a lake with boats, a couple watching the sun go down, red buoys, a landing stage, a rubber boat and ripples on dark water.
Cow parade and sculptures
Green, silver, red and yellow cows in a shopping street, stone rabbits and a stone car, bird sculptures and giant scissors over a railway.
Trees, leaves and fields
A cornfield, a ploughed field, a blossoming tree, frosty and red leaves, mushrooms, storm clouds and the sun through misty trees.
Town and everyday life
Camels, a baseball game, a cake in a shop window, a newspaper kiosk, bicycles by a bus, a village in winter and old windows with shutters.
Objects and textures
Beer bottle caps, a fruit face, a candle, a rusty chain, a pineapple skin, confetti hearts and stars, sponges and roof tiles.
About photography
The term Single Lens Reflex (SLR) evolved because before its conception there was a Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) camera, such as the well-known Rolleiflex. One lens was for viewing and composing the shot and the other for taking the shot. Reflex, because the camera uses a lens to reflect the image to the viewfinder using a mirror. The SLR works as follows: light enters through the lens and passes to the mirror. The image is reflected onto a focusing screen where it can be viewed. When the shutter is released the mirror flips up and out of the way so that the film or digital sensor is exposed to capture the image. The greatest advantage with the SLR is that basically “what you see is what you get”. On digital SLRs there is often a slight difference between the image seen on the LCD viewing screen to that seen through the viewfinder. Generally what you see through the viewfinder is slightly less than that on the LCD screen. SLR cameras are also far better than their point-and-shoot counterparts as they offer the photographer far more scope.
Most SLR cameras have interchangeable lenses with far better aperture control offering a much wider range of adjusting depth of field (sharpness from foreground to background). Checking depth of field can be done in two ways: on manual focus you can see how depth of field is affected as you adjust the aperture. On automatic focus you see the image as though the aperture is wide open but then closes down to the aperture setting when the shutter is released. However, most SLRs have a button to check depth of field when using auto focus, although the image darkens when the button is pressed.
More free photos
- Free photos, set 10
- Free photos, set 12
- Free sculpture pictures
- Free lake pictures
- Free autumn pictures
- Free close-up pictures
Questions about set 11
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.
