Earlier this month in Pictures of Castles I mentioned that I had just put up this picture as my “wallpaper.” It’s still up and I really like looking at it.
Heretofore I have relied on this source for periodic changes to that background. There are other sources I use from time to time including stuff I get in email from friends who enjoy photography and/or “weird pictures.”
Mostly I like to use calm and peaceful settings from nature but now and then I branch out to something different that strikes my fancy.
Do you have a favorite or long-term one? Do you use a particular source? In any case, if you feel like it, post a picture of your current computer’s wallpaper for us to see what yours looks like. I suppose NSFW things might be frowned on by some, but they won’t bother me!
My personal computers and my work laptop all use the same folder of about 80 different wallpaper sized images from Calvin and Hobbes as the desktop background and change the image every 4 hours.
Cool! I used to have mine rotating through a group, too. Same with “screen savers” that pop up after the screen has been idle for a while (usually around 15 seconds) but now mine is a default sort of random squiggles in bright colors. The last time I used a “theme” as such it was of Blade Runner pictures and sounds. That’s been at least five years ago.
Aye, that’s my foot. I like to put my feet in the water to cool down, then I rest them on the boat to let the air dry them a bit. Not the Grand Canyon,but yes, it’s on the Colorado River.I won’t say exactly where in case someone else wants to try and figure it out.
Ditto. I used to have various pretty pictures as my wallaper, but then I realised I only ever saw them for about 10 seconds after logging in - the rest of the time until I went to shut down, the entire screen was covered in open windows. So for about the last ten years, I either have a plain black background or whatever default image the PC comes with (this annoys the hell out of some people!).
I know. Depending on how “washed out” the color is, the face is more easily visible. The suddenness of recognition has at least as startling an effect as those things that have a screaming image pop out of a sedate background. In fact, that was what I was expecting when I first encountered it.
This version hardly requires any scrutiny, I think.
Black here. Sometimes a nearly-black tint in green or maroon, but usually black. I get bored looking at pictures, hate hunting for icons among fribble-frabble, and do a lot of graphics work that benefits from as neutral a display as possible.
My phone had an interior shot of my summer car, then one of my dogs, and now has a photo a friend sent me of some European windmills with a Don Quixote “no tilting” sign in the foreground. They all had reasons.
Links like this leading to pix like that usually end up pointing to “screamers.” A woman I worked with refused to talk to me for weeks when I very innocently pointed her to one of the first screamers floating around the net.
Imagine that darker version and the anticipation of knowing something bad was going to happen! For the longest time (in my case) I kept saying “What a gyp!”
