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Quiet notes on light, landscape and colour — and the wallpapers they became.
- At Night the Eye Stops Reading Colour
- The Horizon Is Closer Than It Looks
- One Flat Colour, and the Screen Becomes the Subject
- Star trails: a photograph of the sky turning
- Sun stars and flare: pointing the lens at the light
- Wallpaper on a TV or a projector
- Snow Plumes: The Streak a Summit Trails
- Swash Lines: Where Each Wave Stopped
- A Wallpaper for the Monitor Turned on Its Side
- Foam: Why the Sea Turns White
- Concrete Keeps the Shape of Its Mould
- The Wallpaper Other People See
- Snow in the Air: Dots or Streaks
- Straight Down: Where the Shadows Hide
- Wallpaper or Screensaver: What Still Means
- Flat Cloud Bases: Where the Air Turns to Water
- Crown Shyness: The Gap Between Neighbours
- Wallpaper That Follows the Time of Day
- Neon Only Glows One Colour
- Dawn or Dusk: Can a Photograph Tell?
- The Notch, and the Top Edge of a Wallpaper
- The Arc Opposite the Sun
- The Net on the Sand
- Turning the Screen Down
- The Corners of the Frame
- Purple, the Color Between Two Others
- Keeping a Wallpaper Folder You Still Use
- Colors Not Addressed to Us
- Two Sides of the Same Ridge
- The Copy Your System Makes
- The City Changed Its Bulbs: Night Went from Orange to White
- Heat Haze: The One Afternoon You Can See the Air
- Glare: Why Your Dark Wallpaper Turns Grey by Noon
- The Colour Your Taskbar Borrows From the Wallpaper
- Overcast: The Day That Comes Without Shadows
- Field Lines: Fences, Furrows and the Edges We Draw
- Red, the Color That Won't Sit Back
- Tracks in Sand and Snow
- Wallpaper Behind Frosted Glass
- Alpenglow: The Last Light on the Peaks
- Shadow Edges: How Soft the Light Was
- A Different Wallpaper for Each Virtual Desktop
- Boats That Seem to Float on Air
- Rooftops: The Facade Nobody Designed for Us
- Sharpness Is a Distance Problem
- Roads and the Point Where They Stop Being Roads
- Contrails: Lines the Sky Forgets
- Display Scaling and What It Never Touches
- Pebbles: the Water Took the Corners Off
- Many of the Same Thing
- Warm Night Light Changes the Wallpaper You Chose
- Where Two Textures Meet
- Camouflage: The Photograph That Withholds Its Subject
- Live Wallpapers, and What They Quietly Cost
- Grey Keeps Its Voice Down
- JPG, PNG, WebP: what to save a wallpaper as
- HDR Files, Ordinary Screens
- Rust and Patina: Color That Takes Years
- 16:9, 16:10, 3:2 — the shape of the screen
- Lock Screen or Desktop: Two Screens, Two Jobs
- Spirals: growth that keeps its shape
- The Brightest Point: Where the Eye Goes First
- Real 4K or Just Enlarged: What the Screen Notices
- Wood Grain: Years Written as Circles
- In Fog, a Light Grows a Body
- White: The Colour That Steps Aside
- Rim Light: The Outline That Glows
- Moss and Lichen: The Slowest Green There Is
- Structural Colour: Blue Without Any Blue in It
- Does a Wallpaper You Never Change Burn In
- What Dark Mode Asks of a Wallpaper
- Why Smooth Skies Come Out Striped
- Fill, Fit, Stretch: Four Fates for One Picture
- How Often a Wallpaper Should Change
- Blue Shadows: What Lights the Shade
- Yellow: the colour that arrives first
- The Same Wallpaper Looks Different on Every Screen
- Green: the color the eye stops arguing with
- Two Blues: The Sky's and the Water's
- What a Wallpaper Weighs
- Looking Up: Frames With No Ground in Them
- One Photo, Two Crops: Phone and Desktop
- After the Rain, Colour Turns Up
- Cloud Shadows, Walking Over the Ground
- Black Wallpaper on an OLED Screen
- The Wallpaper Behind Your Icons
- Bare Branches: The Tree as a Line Drawing
- Two Screens, One Picture
- Resolution: How Big a Wallpaper Needs to Be
- Warm and Cool: Two Temperatures in One Frame
- Out of Focus: What the Background Becomes
- Doorways: The Frame Inside the Frame
- Ripples: the one shape water draws on its own
- Lit Windows: The City's Nightly Grid
- Forest Floor: The Level Nobody Stands At
- Lone Trees: One Subject and a Lot of Ground
- Symmetry: The Eye Checks It Twice
- Close Crops: Pictures That Won't Say How Big They Are
- Palms: A Tree That Cuts Light Into Strips
- Silhouettes: What Is Left When the Light Stands Behind
- Gardens: Nature With an Editor
- Old Stone, Slow Light
- Blue Hour: The Twenty Minutes After the Sun Leaves
- Feathers, Close Enough to Count
- Water Lilies, and the Patience of Still Water
- Snow Mountains, First Light
- Dew: The Morning's Smallest Lenses
- Glass Facades: A Sky on Loan
- Nights the Sky Went Green
- Pink, the Color Nobody Takes Seriously
- Stairways: The Geometry You Have to Walk
- Food, Read as Color
- Midday: The Hour Photographers Walk Away From
- What Black Keeps
- Dunes: Geometry Without Architects
- The Brief Economy of Autumn
- The Sea, Seen Straight Down
- Waterfalls, Slowed to Silk
- Tide Pools: The Small Seas Left Behind
- Lighthouses: A Sentence Made of Light
- Cities That Refuse to Sleep
- In Praise of Fog
- Sea Cliffs: Where the Land Simply Stops
- Sunlight Across Empty Rooms
- Piers: The Straight Line the Water Won't Keep
- At the Edge of the Trees
- The Sea, Repeating Itself
- Lakes: The Original Mirrors
- What the Dark Is For
- Clouds: The Sculpture the Sky Never Keeps
- Curved Metal: How a Car Body Folds the World
- Surfaces Worth Touching
- Sunbeams: How a Forest Turns Light Into Something Solid
- Fields at the End of the Day
- Still Life, at Table Height
- Bamboo Groves, and the Green Light Inside Them
- Being Looked At by Animals
- The Exact Colour of Vacation
- The Sea, Reduced to a Line
- What Sea Fog Does to a Coastline
- Snow in the City
- Sea Stacks: Stone That Stayed
- High Summer, When Flowers Turn to Pure Color
- Buildings, Looking Up
- When the Tide Leaves a Mirror
- The Blue That Distance Paints
- Frozen Lakes, and the Handwriting of Ice
- What Snow Asks of a Forest
- Leaves, Held Up to the Light
- Alpine Lakes, Cold and Exact
- Flowers at Reading Distance
- Streets After Rain
- The Long View of Grass
- Rivers of Headlights
- Almost Nothing, Carefully
- Canyon Country
- Where the Hours Walk
- Colour With No Errand
- The View That Explains Everything
- What Snow Does to Sound
- The Sun, Signing Off
- Our Nearest Neighbours
- An Inch of Wilderness
- Towns That Face the Water
- Fifty Shades of Chlorophyll
- Horses, Unbothered
- Where Green Is a Climate
- The Modest Heroism of Bridges
- Land Still Being Made
- The City as Circuit Board
- Purple, by the Hectare
- The High Pastures
- Contour Lines You Can Farm
- The Physics of Feathers
- Clouds With Intentions
- Two Skies for the Price of One
- Two Weeks of Pink
- Slow Fish, Bright Water
- Where the Land Argues Back
- Beaches in Mourning Dress
- The Building That Is Alive
- Streets Older Than Maps
- The City, Before Anyone
- Where the Sky Touches Sand
- The Committee of Cats
- The Red Season
- Shapes Behaving Themselves
- Rivers, Going About It
- Above the Weather
- Colour, Planted in Rows
- The Slowest Way to Fly
- The City in Black and White
- The Sky as a Colour Chart
- Formal Wear, Informal Birds
- Still Life, Updated
- Valleys, Filled to the Brim