What do you use for your computer background?

[lisab]

Mine's an homage to memes (a work in progress ):

What's yours?

 

[Evo]

I love it lisab!

 

[Danger]

That's great!
Now we just have to re-equip Moonbear's kitty with a raygun in place of the sniper rifle and insert it. It's a new movie in the offing: "Fur Wars".

 

[Monique]

I tend to have a new one every week, currently it is this one: little sumo in love

[PLAIN]http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/files/imagecache/desktop_interstitial/thumbnails/LITTLE+SUMO+IN+LOVE.jpg

 

[jtbell]

I use a version of this picture (scaled to just the right size for my monitor), which I took during my first trip to Europe, while I was a college student.

 

[eyeofdivine]

This is a picture I took on my phone when I was on a picnic nothing special really.

 

[turbo]

I use an SDSS image of M51, since interacting galaxies of that type are my research specialty.

http://hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~heintzma/EndSt/Messier/bilder/M51SDSS.jpe Just Google "SDSS pretty pictures" and there it is!

 

[Pythagorean]

the bamboo forest that comes with Vista

 

[Danger]

I almost never see my background; either PF, Google, or Adventure Quest (or sometimes all of them) is always up and running full screen. I just open new windows over top of them to access other functions. It is, however, the pretty purplish color spray (sort of like a nebula crossed with the Northern Lights) that comes with Tiger. My screen-saver is also a Tiger inclusion: shifting space scenes.

 

[leroyjenkens]

I've had the same background for several months; I don't remember when I changed it to the current one, but I couldn't even tell you what it is without minimizing.
It's one of the default Windows pictures of an up close picture of a leaf.

 

[drizzle]

I tend to have a new one every week, currently it is this one: little sumo in love

[PLAIN]http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/files/imagecache/desktop_interstitial/thumbnails/LITTLE+SUMO+IN+LOVE.jpg[/QUOTE]

Haha, love it!


I'm a bit moody about it, I usually photoshop the photo, and add a number of lines of whatever I find interesting. Sometimes I use some of Andre's shots. But currently, I have the blue stones that comes with Vista.


Love yours too Lisa, so creative.

 

[rootX]

Mostly just a white background.

 

[Danger]

little sumo

Congratulations! You have brought a new dimension to the term "oxymoron".

 

[brewnog]

 

[Danger]

You have pretty funny-shaped monitor...

 

[lisab]

These are all great pix .

 

[russ_watters]

Mine's plain black.

 

[rootX]

Mine's plain black.

Plain white.

 

[vela]

From back in 2003... My cat used to help me use my computer.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Currently this, but I have a folder of pics for backgrounds.

 

[Astronuc]

Stonehenge on work PC.

My home PC has a desktop image of Baltoro Glacier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baltoro_glacier_from_air.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.

[PLAIN]http://harleyk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/HubbleDeepFieldL.jpg

 

[206PiruBlood]

[PLAIN]http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9851/thursdayschoollunch.jpg

 

[Math Is Hard]

I usually have this Bora Bora photo, but I change it up sometimes.

http://www.1stclasswallpapers.com/h...land,_tahiti,_french_polynesia_wallpaper.html

 

[Astronuc]

I usually have this Bora Bora photo, but I change it up sometimes.

http://www.1stclasswallpapers.com/h...land,_tahiti,_french_polynesia_wallpaper.html

That looks like the lagoon in one of the chat backgrounds.

Here's another Hubble shot - really spectacular!
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/24/image/a/format/large_web/

or this
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/22/image/a/format/large_web/

 

[Leptos]

Here's what I currently use:

I also like some of the images found on hubblesite.org or clever/funny images that aren't blurry when I set them as desktop backgrounds.

 

[lisab]

Oooo that's an especially nice Mandelbrot set...I just stole it

 

[diazona]

Mine's attached, but I'm starting to get tired of it... what I'd really like is to have one 4096×1152 image that can be split across my two monitors. Haven't found a good one yet though.

 

[medgar]

The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.

I'm sorry. could you put "I am here" on the photo for us rookies? (I can't make you out.)
Thanks!

 

[Klockan3]

When I first saw this thread I thought it was about what you put in your CV to show that you got a background with computers...

I took this from my summer place:

 

[jtbell]

Is that the Baltic coastline?

 

[Klockan3]

Is that the Baltic coastline?

It is from a Swedish island in the Baltic sea. What made you think that it was Baltic? Edit: I mean, that is quite a hard thing to guess imo. Beaches like that are rare here since most of the mountain sides are really old and eroded, this is quite a special case.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=57.59...18.192249&spn=0.002234,0.004823&z=18&iwloc=A"

 

[Borg]

Hubble picture of M66. Yours is great though Lisa. I stole it for my screensaver slideshow.

 

[Alienjoey]

I usually have Snoopy wallpapers because I'm still six years old at heart. :P

 

[Borek]

What's yours?

Funny that you asked right now

Up to yesterday it was this picture:

but yesterday I changed it to

(no, I have not changed monitor, these are just not exactly the same pictures that I use)

 

[Filip Larsen]

For a decade one of my favorites has been

from the freebie library at http://digitalblasphemy.com" .

For scientific attractiveness quite a few of the HST pictures (http://www.google.dk/images?q=hubble+space+telescope+background+image") are absolutely stunning, but I usually end up taking them down again when I find myself just sitting and stare at the background for too long.

Back when my primary OS was Linux, I used the dynamical rendered Xearth a lot:

Notice, that the above picture is generated on the fly showing where the sun is at the moment. See more at http://xearth.org/live.

Lately though, I have simply used black background, which I find is more relaxing to my eyes in a dual screens setup where one of screens most of the time shows nothing anyway.

 

[OmCheeto]

Typical guy stuff: Cars

home

work

The following was one of my old favorites.

 

[loseyourname]

I'm currently using the Gadsden flag:

http://fascistsoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/500px-gadsden_flag.gif

 

[ApexOfDE]

my current bg:

[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg

 

[Dr Transport]

My kids...Years ago at Mount Rainier NP...

 

[bp_psy]

my current bg:

[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg[/QUOTE]

This is awesome.

 

[Jamma]

Here's what I currently use:

I also like some of the images found on hubblesite.org or clever/funny images that aren't blurry when I set them as desktop backgrounds.

Hehe, mine is a fractal too, but yours seems nicer, so I may also steal it.

 

[PirateCrisp]

This is my current background. Plenty of h2o :)
[URL]http://70.181.179.184:81/images/waterfall_desktop_background-1600x1200.jpg[/URL]

 

[Saladsamurai]

Same as my Avatar: Death of Marat by David

 

[nucleargirl]

wow, these photos are amazing! This is mine - I took it on a flight from Germany :)

 

[nismaratwork]

The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.

[PLAIN]http://harleyk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/HubbleDeepFieldL.jpg[/QUOTE]

Same here, but just for the unending capacity for it to be gazed at without boredom. That, and the predominantly black background makes for good contrast.

Sometimes I switch it out for The Winged Victory of Samothrace, both in sculpture and painting.

 

[TurtleMeister]

 

[Math Is Hard]

wow, these photos are amazing! This is mine - I took it on a flight from Germany :)

That's really nice. And perfect for a background. I love blue skies!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I put together an album of some of the neat images I use as backgrounds. I left out the NSFW ones. Unfortunately my favourite one is borderline and I decided to leave it out.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/thestatutoryape/backgrounds/

 

[theJorge551]

The pictures I take with my camera aren't usually of a high enough resolution to set as good wallpapers, but I do occasionally take one that isn't too bad. This is the one I've had up as of late, a picture I took in upstate NY:

http://quantummodulus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2stv4z

I also make my own in Photoshop when I find a few hours of free time. (attached)