What do you use for your computer background?

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

Hubble-triplet.jpg
 
I usually have Snoopy wallpapers because I'm still six years old at heart. :P
 
lisab said:
What's yours?

Funny that you asked right now :smile:

Up to yesterday it was this picture:

marcin_summer_holidays.jpg


but yesterday I changed it to

marzena1.jpg


(no, I have not changed monitor, these are just not exactly the same pictures that I use)
 
For a decade one of my favorites has been
fluorescence61920_xthumb.jpg

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:
mag=1&nogrid=1&nolabel=1&pos=sunrel,,&stars=1&proj=orthographic&shade=1&nomarkers=1&size=400,400.png

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.
 
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Typical guy stuff: Cars

bbno6s.jpg

home

fk.jpg

work

The following was one of my old favorites.

f_ATT1m_3c9a1dd.jpg
 
I'm currently using the Gadsden flag:

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

[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg
 
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ApexOfDE said:
my current bg:

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

This is awesome.
 
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Leptos said:
Here's what I currently use:
Mandel_zoom_07_satellite.jpg

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.
 
This is my current background. Plenty of h2o :)
[URL]http://70.181.179.184:81/images/waterfall_desktop_background-1600x1200.jpg[/URL]
 
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Same as my Avatar: Death of Marat by David

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

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Ivan Seeking said:
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.
 
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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)
 

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