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Texture Gallery: Nature, Flowers, Plants

These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readeres in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to offer these files for download; please respect the interestes of over 300 participants of our contest. Please also consider the license information attached to the .zip-archives you download from our server. When it comes to usage of textures, different photographers may have different opinions and intentions.

Some .zip-archives also contain further images of the same photographer. The file size of .zip-archives is between 1 and 15 Mb (depending on image resolution) which makes over 700 Mb space storage. This is also a reason why we have decided to not offer all textures in one single archive. It is very likely that due to huge amount of data and manual work some links contain errors — please inform us about them. And sorry for inconvenience.

Daset Sadykov
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David Golden
Yellow corn. Shot for Smashing Magazine Textures Contest on an old Canon Powershot SD400 point-and-shoot.
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Ljubica Rapaic
Macro of a dandelion. The shot was taken with Canon EOS 400D / Canon EF-S18-55mm.
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Daniel Hosie
This is a macro photo of a leaf, backlit with the sun. This was a leaf of a raspberry plant. The veins of the leaf make for a really cool texture.
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Eduardo Loureiro
Sheets of garden.
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Toh
Photos of banana leaves taken in Guadeloupe
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Toh
Photo of a young banana leaf taken in Martinique
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Angelie Baral
Detail of a banana leaf with sun ray behind
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Mihai Munteanu
Macro of a mushroom
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Mariam Melkumyan
This texture is a shot of Armenian lavash: a kind of bread.
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Azhar Chougle
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Izabela Bogdanovic
Palms, trees and flower in San Anton Garden, Attard, Malta.
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Loretta Shigo
Goose feathers
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Krissy Bertram
picture of spiked punch, blue berries and strawberries
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Pascal Immerzeel
The neck with collar of a Malenois Shepherd.
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Jenn Rodriguez
Malamute dog fur.
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Berenice Marquez
Cat
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Anca Varsandan
Close-up shot of one of my kitties.
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Antoine Marc
very close picture of my dog (chowchow) taken with a canon powershot A620
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Slawek
Goleniak
Images are simple fur, made with my friends camera.
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Milan Skrecek
Feathers
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Kristen Leigh Turner
Close-up of elephant skin taken at the Philadelphia zoo.
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Marjolein
These are hypermacro-shots; which brings out the the silkiness feathers are known for.
The used feathers are piled together and have all kinds of colours.
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Linda Estes
This was taken at a bird preserve in Port Aransas TX, where the water is brackish, shallow and an interesting algae grows.
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Piotr Lewandowski
Leaf
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Leonardo Morelli
I don’t know the name of this plant, but it has long green leafs with yellow stripes.
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Joaquín Brenner Léniz
This a wall I found on my way home from school, I just liked
how the little stones make the wall look so different when
you look at it from different angles.
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Petra Lucchini
macro of a blue flower, back view
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Anna Trzeciak
Pineapple, take with Nikon D40
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Jurica Matesic
This picture of wild strawberry leaf was taken with my WZ8080 olympus, at home, with tripod.
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Ravinder Singh
This is the texture of a leaf at the micro level. Picture is taken with Canon s5Is.
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Macarena San Martín
In a trip to the port of Valparaiso, Chile, I went to one of the fruit markets and the colour and texture of this artichokes just captivated me…
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Orlund Norstrom
close up of a dandelion
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Menche Zdravkova
It’s a picture of a kind of zucchini (Pumpkins) which grew in Macedonia and are used for decoration (not edible).
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Filip-Emanuel Tecuta
Sun-flower kernels salted and roasted without oil….
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George Chen
Farmers market in Vancouver, BC.
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Viton Vitanis
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Dean Howard
Photo taken at the Boqueria Market in Barcelona
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Jim Ferguson
This image is a macro shot of a leaf in autumn.
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Martin Domingo
This texture its a little blue basket where my mom keeps some flowers and I thought it would be a cool texture… and it did.
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Macarena San Martín
In a trip to the port of Valparaiso, Chile, I went to one of the markets and found this stand that sold snails, alive, moving and showing their horns out in the sun.’
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Mads Kjaer
Taken with my Fujifilm Finepix V10 on May 28th, 2007 - almost a year ago.
The texture is from the the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, USA. The vivid orange colors are made by carotenoid molecules, produced
by huge mats of algae and bacteria.
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Maria Davydenko
False morel head
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Steve Dixon
A bundle of hay, suitable for web use. I know I looked
everywhere for a decent hay texture for use as a background,
and ended up just making it myself.
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Justus Blümer
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Roham M. Sheikholeslami
Fresh carrots in a grocery store.
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Robin Parmar
Seeds
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Shannon Putchaven
Dandelion
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Rich Nelson
Composting leaves
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Joaquín Brenner Léniz
Just a small pile of leaves with similar colors I liked.
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Giovanni Gonzalez Torres
Amonites
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Anindita Nayak
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Pascal Immerzeel
Gras plants in winter.
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Laura Erbaru
Is a bouquet of mint in the garden.
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Filipe Freitas
weed - they grow in my "garden"
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Jose Ma. G. Perez
Some chlorophyll in your system won’t hurt.
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Melinda Hudak
Back of Leaf
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Jim Krill
A tortoise shell.
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Anthony
Oyster
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Octavian Todirut
Two of the textures are detailed clouds made with a 70-200 Lens+Polarizer.
I also enhanced them a little bit with Photoshop Raw Editing
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Thiru Murugan
Closer look at Zebra stripes.
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Thiru Murugan
Leaves drenched in the rain.
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Bartosz Krawetkowski
Shot was taken in the garden.
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Pierre Chevremont
Moss growing in my garden lit by the spring evening sun…
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Matthieu Themans
sunny grass in Poland
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Dhaval Jani
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Samantha Davis
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Alexandru Ene
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Istvan Vasil
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This one is going to be big. Smashing Magazine’s readers have created a quite smashing texture gallery:

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Robin Parmar (May 27th, 2008, 6:44 pm)

Glad to see my Seeds here amidst such good company. Thanks all for some great textures!
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jurica (May 29th, 2008, 3:52 pm)

Sven, thank you for replacing my info.txt.
It was my stupid mistake ;).

thx