Mmk … while I was walking through the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens on Sunday, I decided to snap some rocks and trees and stuff and start a collection of my own background images. And share them with you …
I took the pics with my li’l camera phone and I haven’t touched them at all – zero post production – so they could probably do with a LOT of tweaking (1600px × 1200px).
Anyhoo, here they are – free and gratis if you want to grab them 
If you find them useful at all, please let me know and I’ll keep my eyes open for some more stuff.
Nice, thanks!! I love the bark photo
You like? YAY!!!
The bark’s cool – I also like the last rock pic … I think it’s really interesting.
These are bloody awesome! Need a small adjustment for widescreen aspect ratios, but that’s no problem at all.
I’m going to use them all, one by one. Thanks so much!
@Camera Obscura … fantastic! My pleasure
These are really nice! I love the colors in the second rock pic, and the stripe effect in the rock pic just before the bark. Thanks so much for offering
My pleasure! Glad you like them …
Just found your background papers, thankyou so much for sharing they will make excellent Grunge Papers for making paper flowers.
just discovered your lovely photos, thank you
Thanks for some great backgrounds. Like yourself, I take pics of everything. You never know what will work or where it will work until you look at it a while.
I would be glad to send you some of my backgrounds. You can post / use for free as you have done with your own. Love your design of this site. Hit me on email if you are interested.
PB
Thanks so much for these free backgrounds- they are wonderful- I saved all of them. I have been messing with Photoshop alot lately and found your blog through a google search for textured backgrounds. Your blog is beautifully designed as well. thanks so much!