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LitNetIsGreat
04-22-2011, 08:34 PM
I always think hard about what I want to go on my computer; I feel that it is a very important trivial decision even if mine is always changing.

Here's mine on my laptop:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/mwalker/2005/09/13/damflask_reserviour_up.jpg%3FmaxWidth%3D800%26maxH eight%3D600&imgrefurl=http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mwalker/gallery/peak_district/&usg=__0ThB1BcIg9m1rA0PvL9GImm4AG8=&h=480&w=640&sz=46&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=wQhtDClOHuearM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=191&ei=dBiyTb7MFdWy4QaZ2cXsCw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddamflask%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN% 26rlz%3D1W1GGHP_en%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D567%26tbm% 3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=371&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=62&ty=72 It is of Damflask, about 4/5 miles from my house, leading to the wonderful Lower Bradfield where I would live if I had the cash. The kids constantly change it though with all sorts of stuff, mostly rabbits.

On my PC, upstairs at the moment I have this:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/images/bradfield.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/towns/bradfield.php&usg=__uQ0NwLIrXeoamkC0Eo-ggD8xu2E=&h=427&w=640&sz=70&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=8XM5UHjaeKHJWM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=212&ei=3BmyTcftF4uj4AbRmvjdCw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlower%2Bbradfield%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1 020%26bih%3D567%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=535&vpy=82&dur=1923&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=122&ty=142&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0

Which is my very own Lower Bradfield. I have meant to replace this with my own photo of this shot from the other day when I was up there but I have not got around to it yet.

What's yours - anything interesting?

Hurricane
04-22-2011, 11:25 PM
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/022310/i-hate-thinking.gif

This is mine, which I've had up for a while.

Calidore
04-23-2011, 12:40 AM
I have the Hubble Ultra Deep Field picture, which is absolutely mind-blowing.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/

Lulim
04-23-2011, 01:41 AM
I made my background image on Wednesday in the garden:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=771&pictureid=8798

Lokasenna
04-23-2011, 03:56 AM
I change is quite frequently. At the moment, it's a picture of a primordial quasar:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0305/firstqsos_esa.jpg

I usually go with either a space/nature theme, or else a favourite work of art.

Emil Miller
04-23-2011, 09:00 AM
Here's mine but I'm thinking of changing it.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5638/dsc0064fn.jpg

Emil Miller
04-23-2011, 12:01 PM
I've just changed it for this.


http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3024/sarahchanginhanoi008500.jpg

qimissung
04-23-2011, 11:18 PM
Here's mine. I usually use National Geographic, and they do have some astounding photographs.

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/kolmanskop-namibia-pod/

Everybody has such lovely pictures (love the one of your kitty, EmilMiller! :)). But I think I like yours best, Neely. I would love to live there, too.

LitNetIsGreat
04-24-2011, 02:38 PM
Yes some nice and some unusual ones too, plus a nice violin.

I've finally gotten around to uploading my own photo of Lower Bradfield and fixing it as my screen saver, here it is:

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3290/s6300947.jpg

At the centre you can just make out the world's best ever post office/café in red, beyond the cricket ground. It sells all sorts of local goodies, fresh loaves, decent jams, the excellent local Our Cow Molly ice cream and things like that. They even have a free book swap for the locals which I like the idea of.

At the top of the hill (Upper Bradfield) you can make out the lovely St Nicolas' Church which has a wealth of great history surrounding it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Nicholas,_Bradfield I'm also on speaking terms with the Reverend as I'm organising a school trip out there - the Sheffield Flood which killed 100s in 1864 broke from a dam around the corner. William Horsfield, the chap who first spotted the crack in the dam wall, is buried in the churchyard there, etc, etc.

There is also a small real ale brewery next to the church, Bradfield Brewery, the logo of which is on the umbrella. I have of course tasted their brews and they are quite competent, if a little light for me.

Edit: the other side and a delightful tub of Our Cow Molly:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/426/s6300950.jpg

NewCar
04-24-2011, 07:18 PM
I'm using Digital Aquarium Screensaver (http://www.digiaquascr.com).

http://www.digiaquascr.com/wallpaper/Little/background0.png

faithosaurus
04-24-2011, 10:21 PM
http://i52.tinypic.com/rhtpc8.png

Yep, that's my husband right there. I'm into older men.

LitNetIsGreat
04-25-2011, 04:54 AM
Naw you can do better than him, dump him for me. OK, so he's good looking, very rich, talented, well connected, famous, charming etc, etc, but, but...oh never mind.

faithosaurus
04-25-2011, 07:02 AM
I don't know, he's pretty attractive...but I'll think about it ;) Hahaha.

The Comedian
04-25-2011, 08:35 AM
I use Hellboy: http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Desktops/1168/Hellboy-The-Wild-Hunt

Taliesin
04-26-2011, 07:24 PM
I change it frequently, but at the moment I am using Kowloon Walled City, the place with the highest human density in the world before it was torn down - 33 thousand people on 0.03 square kilometres.
The image used is something like this (http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lad9ddhOCt1qzpyndo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId =AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1303946597&Signature=4oeYZOu8a9goq4WTvHJoVsrDJCU%3D).

stlukesguild
04-26-2011, 08:39 PM
I just set mine up as a slide show of favorite art works and other images so that I don't grow bored at the same image.

Lokasenna
04-27-2011, 03:48 AM
I change it frequently, but at the moment I am using Kowloon Walled City, the place with the highest human density in the world before it was torn down - 33 thousand people on 0.03 square kilometres.
The image used is something like this.

My goodness, I've never seen anything like that! What made you choose that for a desktop background?

Also, I've changed mine this morning. Good old van Gogh:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg

JuniperWoolf
04-27-2011, 09:56 PM
I'm using the same chicken-in-a-sweater that's my profile picture.

Veho
04-28-2011, 06:04 PM
I would post mine but my laptop has gone on strike.

Gilliatt Gurgle
04-28-2011, 09:00 PM
.

This one is currently on the desk top computer:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Vacation%20March%202011/IMGP1409NR.jpg

Grand Cayman Islands ^


and this one is on my lap top:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Dad_on_Plane.jpg


My father on the wing of a P-38 Lightning somewhere in the Pacific during WW II ^

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