Category: Desktop Images
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Friday: Lander
Standard Lunar Lander — because it’s Friday.
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UNDERDOG
Thought I’d make a treatment of our ‘UNDERDOG’, Bogart. The Underdog concept came from a post by our CaliCan Rescue honcho, Rene. He was in a restaurant in California, on a trip to pick up a new pack of rescues, and after explaining to the waiter why he was there, the waiter replied; ‘Thank you…
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Cool Desktop: Spectrum of a Tree
My wife has been using this image as a desktop background for about a year now, but recently I took a good look at it. Initially I thought this was simply a photo of a tree in silhouette, sliced, colourized and laid out as you see it. But on closer inspection, it seems that these are shots…
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A collection of my desktop images
Recently I’ve been reorganizing my image libraries, and came across a few that I’ve used as desktop images. I don’t claim to have shot all these, just modified them from their original size to fit my desktop. Rather than having them all over the blog, I’ve built a page to host them So if you’re interested…
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Atlantis on the Sun — Desktop Image
I felt the need for a new desktop image for my computers, now that the Apollo 11 excitement has died down, and I was tiring of my Apollo 8 Earthrise image. I found this neat shot of Atlantis transiting the Sun, by Thierry Legault. The following sizes at the NASA site: Full Size 1024×768 800×600 And…
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Alberta Winter on the Desktop
Happy New Year. I’ve been having more fun with Photoshop and with my new Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet, and decided to share the fruits of my labour. Here’s a new 1280 x 865 wintery-themed image, taken one frosty morning out on the trail near the Waskahegan trail at the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Recreation Area, just east…
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Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image
Today I was feeling the need to update my desktop, and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 version of Earthrise. I couldn’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 version from NASA and cropped it. Feel free to grab my (1024×768) version here. ** Update Feb 17, 2008 ** Since I’ve…