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Tuesday
Jan052010

Desktop Backgrounds

When I travel, I feel like I often look at textures and photos and think that something or other will make a great desktop background. I used to be really good about changing my background often. It was recently pointed out to me that I had the same photo for a long time:

I took this photo on a chilly morning in our old rental house. It was an older house with the original single pane windows. I had left the blinds down overnight, so the condensation froze on the windows! While I was upset that this happened in the first place, it made an amazing photo while the sun was rising and the frost was melting.

I also had this one up for a while:

I took this photo when I was in Brazil visiting my Fiancé's family. His family has a small farm that I went to visit with his aunt. These beautiful flowers were all over the place. Also, I like how the 2 flowers in the middle kindof look like butterflies kissing :) This made a great summer background.

Then yesterday, when I realized it was time to remove the aforementioned frozen windows from my background, I switched it to this photo:

I purchased this photo on iStockphoto a while ago when working on a holiday card for my former employer. Still love the photo, but its way too bright for a background!

Finally, yesterday I settled on this one:

This photo is from a second trip to Brazil. One night we ate at a fabulous restaurant: Tantra. The restaurant is beautifully decorated, so I took my camera around! The food was good too :)

So we'll see how long this one lasts! In the meantime, I keep looking for great backgrounds on my travels.

What is on your desktop background?

Reader Comments (2)

The first picture, the one that show your morning windows frosted is just beauriful, I couldn't stop looking at it! Wonderful shot, really.

Is there a way to have an higher quality image so that I can use it as a background too?

January 5, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMichy Kant

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