Rate favourites from the serious contributors to the computer backdrop
thread....

Suggested criteria:
Visual impact/design excellence
Personal meaning
Golden oldies/historical
Hidden humour

Alphabetical by contributor:

Aussie Bhoy from London, misses hometown Brisbane, where he can see his childhood street, primary school and favoured Hawthorne cinema in this pic:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/31601.jpg


Bronte brought back to earth ...photo by Dave Ellem

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/0426de011.jpg

Collector has two historical, starting with rushhour at FSS:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/FlinderStation21.jpg


and this lost gem, the old Fish Market, which if i'm not wrong is
where Grollo's planned a taller tower in Docklands : Edit, was Flinders St extension
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/FishMarket11.jpg



Collin sends Astroboy from St Kilda in times of need:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Astrobackdrop1.jpg



Chrisaus with reduced-size here of a magnificent shot of his beloved Perth:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/f76823911.jpg


dilaz89 BIG Swan River
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/sth_31bkgd1.jpg



Dynamoultraclean also goes for wet things:Jessica
Simpson, winner of the girlfriend contest. This is his actual
desktop, i think:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/jsimpson_-4__-10241.jpg



Fabian alternates his own shot of Circular Quay:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/fc0b05571.jpg


with early evening on a rainswept Warringah Freeway-almost smell the cooling asphalt in this one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/fcfd88d51.jpg


Invincible has selection from deviantart scenery. This is 'Infinity.'
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Infinity1.jpg


Kasperluke also has two terrific Melbourne sunrises off the helicopterservice.com site: first was also my desktop choice...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Docklands11.jpg

second shows more of city and DS:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Docklands21.jpg



Muse has a Culwulla of the booming South Sydney precinct:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/citysouthjuly261.jpg




Rondeez has a moody Fabian shot of North Sydney, with a building called PULL in the middle:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/P72501341.jpg



Sakor1 wallpapers a favourite aspect of the elegant modernism of
his new Monash campus in Caulfield:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/caulfieldsmaller.jpg



Tayser has a new one from realestate.com.au
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/101835034ml10940062281.jpg

previously had picked up this one from Silvermb's
spectacular 'construction at night' thread:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/pm1.jpg


replacing this Town Hall (Hawthorn I think) with skyline in distance:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/melbwallpaper1.jpg



TooFar in cool Montreal, prefers to start his computer day at Glenelg Beach:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Glenelg11.jpg



TonyP a Sydneysider, works to visit Melbourne (seen here, off a Japanese website):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/tonyP.jpg




Uewepuep picked up the Chrysler Blg gargoyles from somewhere on the NY forum:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/14gallery03BKGD1.jpg

replaced recently with this lucky butterfly which landed right in front
of his new camera, making a perfect setting for icons:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/IMG_00461.jpg

So far, that's it: Bronte

great pics there... but tony p's pic is actualy of Melbourne from Rialto.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

A Bigger One Of This
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid135/p97eb0c434ee7b9e6a1949d388541ac00/f7682391.jpg

i forgot to post mine in the other thread
here it is- swan river-
http://home.iprimus.com.au/allyoop1/lge pics/sth_31_bkgd.JPG

if that pic doesnt work-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/mdilaz/sth_31bkgd.jpg

lol. great thread. ^^ cameras back then must have been only 2 megapixels?

i like beach scenes like this:

http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.net/wallpapers/9/c/backgrounds-desktop-wallpaper-atoll-beach-maldives-95724.jpg

or this

http://www.fabuloussavers.com/new_wallpaper/Saint_Jean_de_Luz_Beach_freecomputerdesktopwallpaper_1920.jpg

SOURCE (http://hdw.eweb4.com/out/742394.html)

http://www.mascobz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8-blue-screen-of-death-offical.png

^^ I got that message yesterday too :(

http://www.mascobz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/windows-8-blue-screen-of-death-offical.png

:lol: Is that windows 8? I am guessing Win 8 is crap... or your pc can't handle it?

(^ it says why it crashed - HAL Initialization Failed. So, bad disk, bad RAM or you somehow installed Windows 8 on a 486...)

:lol: Is that windows 8? I am guessing Win 8 is crap... or your pc can't handle it?

Yes, it's Win 8. My choice of wallpaper.

If I have a Mac, I'll use this.

http://www.bergek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iousbfamily-crash.jpg

http://www.pixelresort.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/beachball_preview.jpg

http://www.funnyreign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/they-see-me-rollin.png

Mine is of my cat just staring at me. It's ver creep.