What's your desktop background?

marlinspike

I have a collection (that slowly, very slowly, grows) of images that I cycle through as desktop backgrounds. I've never seen a photographer who doesn't use one of his or her own images as a desktop background, so lets see what you're currently sporting. Somehow they look better at 1400x1050. This is the one I just changed from


(taken inside a Porsche Carrera 996 - that's my right hand, with my left hand holding my 20D w/50 1.4 - it was pretty hard to contort my body to get that

And this is the one I just changed to (on the Blue Ridge Pkwy, as seen through my 20D w/17-40 f/4L)

Andy

Mine is b0ring I keep it neutral so that I'm not distracted when editing photos. This is a pair of 23" Apple Cinemas, on my Mac Pro. Mac on your left, Winders in your right. Now I *do* have a slideshow screensaver, rotating from all of my photos. I dig that.

gus

Just my whale shot with a cut off head.

photodoug

photocat

gus wrote:

Just my whale shot with a cut off head.


still very impressive!!! Wished I had a shot like that. Love how it is so sharp, you can see the power of the water, a national geographic photograph

marlinspike

Andy wrote:

Mine is b0ring I keep it neutral so that I'm not distracted when editing photos. This is a pair of 23" Apple Cinemas, on my Mac Pro. Mac on your left, Winders in your right. Now I *do* have a slideshow screensaver, rotating from all of my photos. I dig that.

You're that boring, yet you're a mac user? Did you work at IBM back during the white shirt/blue suit/dark tie days?

Andy

marlinspike wrote:

You're that boring, yet you're a mac user? Did you work at IBM back during the white shirt/blue suit/dark tie days?

Kinda. I was a rebel, though, and would show up to work in a blue Oxford. They'd ask me, "you driving the bus today?"

Malte

photocat wrote:

gus wrote:

Just my whale shot with a cut off head.


still very impressive!!! Wished I had a shot like that. Love how it is so sharp, you can see the power of the water, a national geographic photograph

Malte

Malte

System

I'm rocking this right now.

photocat

Here is mine, I rotate a lot, I usually take one of my last travel shots...

Malte

Andy wrote:

This is a pair of 23" Apple Cinemas, on my Mac Pro. Mac on your left, Winders in your right.

So you're running windows virtualized? That hogs alot of memory, no? How's Photoshop on your Mac while you have that running?

Malte

Andy

Malte wrote:

So you're running windows virtualized? That hogs alot of memory, no? How's Photoshop on your Mac while you have that running?

Malte

Yes, with Parallels. No, you decide how much memory to give it. I have 1gig for Windows, 5gigs left to Mac, it's all good

Andy

photocat wrote:

Here is mine, I rotate a lot, I usually take one of my last travel shots...

'cat, that is a gorgeous photo!

marlinspike

Andy wrote:

Kinda. I was a rebel, though, and would show up to work in a blue Oxford. They'd ask me, "you driving the bus today?"

You know your old when at some point in your lifetime the phrase blue collar actually made sense I see some of us are being smart and doing screen captures, so now I have to edit my first post.

UT Scott

I usually just pick one of my pictures to use as a background, this is what I have now. It was taken at the UT vs. LSU game last week.

David_S85

A shot at the arboretum a couple weeks ago.


...oh, and Andy, you'll notice it isn't a WIN95 screenshot.

marlinspike

UT Scott wrote:

I usually just pick one of my pictures to use as a background, this is what I have now. It was taken at the UT vs. LSU game last week.

Why does your start menu area look so much cooler than most of what I see?

UT Scott

marlinspike wrote:

Why does your start menu area look so much cooler than most of what I see?

Uhhhh, I don't know. I'm running Windows Media Center, so that could be it

marlinspike

I guess they freshed it up a bit and they didn't do that to XP Pro. Yours looks almost 3D.

Andy

Andy wrote:

Mine is b0ring I keep it neutral so that I'm not distracted when editing photos. This is a pair of 23" Apple Cinemas, on my Mac Pro. Mac on your left, Winders in your right. Now I *do* have a slideshow screensaver, rotating from all of my photos. I dig that.

OK Richard, I decided to live a little

morning on the left, Mac; evening on the right, Winders.

marlinspike

Andy wrote:

OK Richard, I decided to live a little

morning on the left, Mac; evening on the right, Winders.

See, now isn't that better? I really like the morning one, where was that taken?

Andy

marlinspike wrote:

See, now isn't that better? I really like the morning one, where was that taken?

Thank you Shenandoah NP, Big Meadows.

Phyxius

A shot I took on Cedar Creek Trail, Natural Bridge Va. Run through Webshots to get the calendars in the upper right.

marlinspike

This appears to also be the "I am so much more talented than Marlinspike" thread Seriously, some great stuff here.

davev

Well, thanks to this thread, I realized I hadn't changed the desktop for months.

The old one was some fireworks from the 4th of July.
The new one is this.

W.W. Webster

He's da man!
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Jeffro

His name is Stranger.
Here is mine....at least for now. It changes quite a bit. My little girls like this one.

Bob&Glennie

Don't know how to do a screen shot but here's what I've got currently.

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Bob

Swartzy

I've got way too many
Here are two

gluwater

Here's mine, look familiar?