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Jason Dunn
03-02-2007, 10:17 PM
http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/hamad-darwish-photos.jpg

Hamad Darwish is an amazingly talented photographer who had some of his work selected for the wallpaper backgrounds in Windows Vista. His work is extremely impressive (http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwishh), and I find the high-contrast, super-saturated effect stunning (it's what I tend to try for myself with my own photos, though they're nowhere near as great as these of course ;-)).

He's been generous enough to release 22 high resolution (1920 x 1200) images to the public, ones that didn't make the cut into Vista. Microsoft's loss is our gain! And because the bandwidth requirements were causing problems for his one and only download location, I've offered Thoughts Media resources to host the download for him, and we're now an official mirror (http://www.hamaddarwish.com/).

So if you want it, click here to download (http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/files/hamadvistawallpapers[hamaddarwish.com].zip) (31 MB ZIP file).

Neil Enns
03-03-2007, 01:52 AM
Cool beans, thanks for sharing. Microsoft had an internal contest too for people to submit photos. I didn't know about it, otherwise I would have submitted a couple (http://www.clearviewphotography.net/gallery/2328666#121820916) of images (http://www.clearviewphotography.net/gallery/2327766#121765044).

A good friend of mine knew about it though. She got second! Her photo is the blades of grass with the dew on it. A quick shot taken while waiting at a bus stop with a Canon P&S digital, I believe.

Neil

randalllewis
03-03-2007, 06:19 PM
Thanks for access to the pics Jason and thanks to Hamad for sharing. I have always used my own photos (of Scotland, always Scotland) as my wallpaper on all my computers, but I was so taken by the aurora borealis shot that it has been my Vista background since installation. A number of these new pics are also very tempting. This is just one of the many reasons it pays to read DMT.

kiwi
03-06-2007, 06:07 PM
sweet - new wallpapers for my 20" iMac!! :wink: