Talk to your friends, family and colleagues with beautiful Patterson Park as your background!

Many and sincere thanks to all of the fabulous photographers whose work is displayed here, including Kendall Conder, Travis Sluka, Kevin Moore, Geoffrey Boggs, Matthew Saindon, Mary Clark, Dave Friskey, Sammie Folks, Denise Alex Tonsberg, Gregory McKay, Angie Dix, Cherisse Otis, Folsade Alvaraz-Gibson and Jesse Kanagy.


To set a virtual background in Zoom:

  1. Choose your favorite backgrounds from here and click to open them, then right click on each to save them to your computer.

  2. After logging in to Zoom, click on your profile picture, then click on Settings. (Mac Users: Under the zoom.us menu in the upper right, click on Preferences.)

  3. Choose Virtual Background: Click the + icon to upload a new background from . Check the “Mirror my video”. The image will look backwards to you but will appear normal to the person viewing your video feed.

  4. Have fun Zooming from Patterson Park!

    Note: If you do not see Virtual Background in your settings, log in to the Zoom website, go to Meeting Settings, and make sure Virtual Background button is toggled on under the Meeting tab. Any other issues, check out Zoom virtual background operating system requirements and instructions here.