I have a big set of old photographs from when I had a bit more time to go out shooting bits n bobs that has really been sitting doing not very much. I’m going to publish a few sets as royalty free photographs so that hopefully they get some use.

1985 Texturepack 001 - Click to download
This is a series of 47 high resolution photographs of macro textures. Largely these are organic surfaces, from grasses and dirt, to animal shells, shattered ice, and a few man made surfaces like eroded brickwork and carefully carved walls. There’s a few liquids too like thick gloopy jam.

The total filesize of this set is 85.1Mb (zipped). Each photo is about 1.2Mb full quality JPG.

Please comment!
I really hope that some of you can use some of the shots in your work. If you do find some use for it, I’d love to see some of the results and am happy to link to your work, so please let me know or drop a comment onto this post!

Creative Commons
No credit is required, these photos are free to use and totally royalty free. Please do with them as you like!

Now I had hoped to release these photos under a Creative Commons license, but you know what, I can’t find find one that just says do what you want with them for commercial or non-commercial purposes, so in this case… do whatever and enjoy!

More to come
I’m going to publish some more sets of free photographs if this set gets enough downloads to justify it. If you think anything would be particularly relevant, or you’d like to get access to anything in particular, then please let me know. I have sets of quite a lot of materials… not the absolute finest quality in the world mind you as I am very much an amateur photographer (it’s not be primary skill!), but some are quite useful as components to work with as part of a piece. If you think of something you’d really like to see, why not leave me a comment t?