Free Photos, Set 18: 100 Mixed Pictures
Set 18 of the BigFoto library: 100 free photos of signs and pictograms, garden figures and weather vanes, fields, trees and the coast, town life, rusty screws and bolts, and textures, 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 bridleway sign, a cartoon horse, a restaurant pictogram, a pharmacy cross, a surfing cow, “Stop” painted on the road and a red pedestrian light.
Figures and decorations
A tortoise sculpture, wooden ducks, a rooster weather vane, a red bird house, a tree stump with a face, flower pinwheels and an Easter egg.
Fields, trees and the coast
A pine on a rocky coast, an autumn tree, a tractor in an orchard, a red tent in a meadow, rose hips, a pile of sugar beet and an old barrel cart.
Town and everyday life
Colourful umbrellas, white tent roofs, a sundial, a surveillance camera, a weather station, a yellow bicycle and a striped tie.
Rust, screws and metal
Rusty bolts, nuts and hooks, a steel spring, trampoline springs and round reflectors.
Textures
Pebbles, cracked tarmac, stacked wood, wooden slats and walls, a concrete lattice, a yellow net and drops on a bottle.
About photography
The digital imaging revolution happened primarily in the early 2000s, following rapid development in technology and amid fears by keen photographers that all their hard-won skills would be wasted and image manipulation become child’s play. But as with most technological developments, the beginnings go much further back. Experiments to store images on disks were already being made in the early 1960s.
Then at Bell Laboratories in 1969, Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith created the image sensor, the digital camera’s key element. Further advances were made in the 1970s with Kodak, Texas Instruments and Fairchild Imaging leading the way. In 1975, Kodak used a Fairchild sensor, with just 0.1 megapixels in its first digital camera prototype. It was a huge camera, around the size of a two large dictionaries and weighing some 4 kg.
Image sensors underwent further development throughout the 1970s. By the 1980s, the developments in technology were being closely followed by the media, particularly by the photo press, which by the early 1990s could sense the advantages of faster distribution of images. Digital technology was by now threatening to replace film. However, digital photography was still a long way away from becoming a mass market but was gaining ground in studio photography.
In the 2000s, the advances in this new medium were very rapid and photographers who once condemned the new trend realized that image-making, however achieved, still required considerable creativity and opened up new avenues to even the most dedicated conventional photographer. Digital photography was by now a mass market and had reached the stage when the talk was all about pixels.
More free photos
- Free photos, set 17
- Free photos, set 19
- Free sculpture pictures
- Free autumn pictures
- Free wood textures
- Free close-up pictures
Questions about set 18
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.
