About - Free Nature Wallpaper
This website and the photos you see are the result of a photographer that loves to design web sites, an IT graduate that prefers to take pictures of the wonderful natural world around us, and an English graduate looking for any excuse to write. I am Laura Hardesty and I am dedicated to the personalized development of this site which in turn encourages me to get out and take more photos for the site. It's a fun vicious cycle!
ABOUT THE SITE
FNW is at once, a place to display my photography, practice and perfect my web design skills (still working on it all the time!) and I hope to share my interest in our environment and the importance of protecting it and all the creatures in it. When possible I try to write some informational text about certain subjects you'll find on this site, such as endangered species information or even names of plants and insects. I also hope to create, in you the visitor, an interest in the great outdoors for adults and children, as this site is family friendly. And finally, yes, I hope to make a little money from this site in order to keep working on this site and others. To facilitate this, I place unobtrusive ads across the site - you may read our Privacy Policy regarding this.
I have been exhibiting my photography across South Florida for several years, in jurried exhibits and solo events. My photos have won a few prizes, for which I am very honored. If it were not so hot where I live, I would be outside
"...a photographer that loves to design , an IT graduate that prefers to take pictures, and an English major looking for any excuse to write."
taking pictures all the time, and this site probably would not exist. I'm also interested in computers, network administration, grapic design and time-wasting xbox games. One of the first things I loved about the Internet years ago, was looking for new desktop wallpaper to apply to my little bitty computer monitor. That and hearing Pee Wee Herman laughing out of my speakers. The access that the Internet gave me inspired me to take better pictures and it
created an interest in web design. Now days, as the Web is flooded with sites offering wallpaper photography, the thing I like the least is finding the same commercial photos across so many site. And worse, finding the same site design, thinly disguised by changing the colors, because so many sites now are mass produced by a company (spammers they call 'em) or script, not a designer. That is why I am dedicated to making Nature Wallpaper unique.
The photography equipment I currently use is a Cannon 40d digital SLR. My two main lenses right now are the Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro prime. My wish list is too long to put here. I use an Epson R1800 for the prints that I sell. If you would like a print of your favorite wallpaper photos from this site, please Contact Me for information.
Thank you dedicated visitors, wildlife lovers, photography enthusiasts, all of you, for visiting our little site and we hope you will keep coming back. I would love to hear from you - please join our Facebook page to keep in touch.
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We encourage you to use our nature images for your own website or blog as graphics or banner image. The images on this site are a wonderful resource for the graphic artists, web designers, teachers and students. They are free of charge, though they are copyrighted (© wwwFree-NatureWallpaper.com) and may not be claimed as your own. We only ask that you give credit for the photo you use and link back to the category page of the image you use. Just highlight and copy the address above in your browser, using the subject in your link text. For example: If you are using one of our flower images, please use the word "flower" in your text link.