I can’t stop staring at that forest fire, it has to be one of the best pictures ive ever seen.
My wallpaper is Wall-E. That movie was too adorable. 
Mine is a picture of the Martian surface taken by one of the Mars landers, with Marvin the Martian (of Looney Tunes fame) peeking in from the side.
This isn’t my desktop but it’s the same pic:
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My oldest son changed mine to this a few months ago. In an impressive display of laziness, I’ve never bothered changing it back to whatever it was I had on there before.
Just updated to this picture - I just LOVE it!
Joe
A digitally drawn picture of an anime-style elf/angel holding a sword - and I usually hate anime.
I tempt fate.
I generally just use a windows wallpaper but I put “peep show” up as a joke last week.
I have an open-source 128x128 icon that’s tiled; it’s a black glass bead-looking thing, available as part of Gnome (Linux). An actual picture would be too distracting to me.
The reason I chose it is that I spend a lot of time in front of my monitor – I’m a programmer. If I need to concentrate/zone out for a little bit, I can stare at my screen and get an effect similar to a Magic-eye picture. Not that the beads form an image or anything, but the background recedes while the desktop icons and mouse pointer jump forward. Nifty!
I have this pic of my daughter on my work PC (she was 9 months old at the time). It makes me smile and helps keep me from strangling my idiot boss!
It’s “The Last Hero” I think I liked that book. I love anything with Rincewind the wizard in it, though
A picture from my village.
I keep an eclectic collection here.
It looks like a Bierstadt.
On our main computer, we have this lolcat, which always makes me lol, as it were. The computer in my office at school is this lolcat that my officemate picked out.
On my laptop, I have this photo of my kitty, helping me work.
*.scr files are screensaver files, not backgrounds.
There’s very little risk in using a wallpaper photo - they’re passive and only take a little memory (compared to average system memory these day)
Thank God that Microsoft finally got around to allowing jpg files for wallpaper, they used to only allow *.bmp files which were getting a bit largish as screens got bigger.
This is one of my personal favorites for a desktop. It always makes me laugh…http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/06/is_there_room_e.html
This picture that I took about 7 months ago while flying over Chicago. (You need to click on “all sizes” to get a desktop size version).
LMAO; that’s absolutely priceless!
Nothing special for me–at home, a picture of a bowling lane; at work, a picture of Yankee Stadium.
here is mine
it took me forever to get it right