Wohoo, at last. It took some time - had problems with the cam and the hosting - but it's up now.

What's this?

This is a photopack in .tar.bz2 format (every decent extractor such as WinRar will do it), with 650MB or 259 high quality JPEG photos made in Bulgaria (Sofia, Varna, Targovishte, Goljamo Drjanovo), taken with a Sony DSC-W50. Here are some examples:

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07346/dsc00555.jpg
http://download.tuxfamily.org/realitygames/dsc00568.jpg

And... what's this for?

This package is interesting for texture artists (and probably modelers, too). It contains lots of reference pictures for textures and some inspirational pictures.

Cool, what about licensing?

Since I'm a fanatic, there'll be three possible licenses. Either the GPL v2.0 or newer and/or CC-by-SA 3.0.

Ok, where can I download this?

http://195.225.105.180/~sindwiller/bulgaria.tar.bz2 (thanks to dino4k!!)
http://gnu.ethz.ch/photos/bulgaria/bulgaria.tar.bz2 (thanks to tarzeau from ETH ZH!!)
http://download.tuxfamily.org/realityga ... ia.tar.bz2 (thanks to Tuxfamily.org - I luv you!! )

umm.... could you make smaller packs, please?

600 MB is a bit much. would be great if you could pick the best (of the best) and sort them into:
Wallpapers (scenery)
Textures (stone, wall, metal, etc...)
Other (architecture, mixed, etc...)

or something like that.

anyway, thank you very much. i'm sure people will appreciate it.
i sure do.

Well, yeah, I could have sorted low quality stuff out I'm really sorry, I'll change that next time.

By the way, I uploaded another bunch (around 20) reference pics on Picasa. Same licensing!

http://picasaweb.google.com/Sindwiller/QuintenRefs

I love it

what's with the bz2 files? Is that a compression folder?

what's with the bz2 files? Is that a compression folder?

Yes, that's .tar is the Unix standard for archives and bz2 is (along with gzip) the standard for compression. If you're using Windows, Winrar and any other decent extractor can handle it. Mac OS X has native support for it, anyway.