As I was going through photos from my recent trip up to New York I was looking for some decent photos for some new desktops and I came across a couple that I liked but just were not quite up to my standards as of late so I started messing around in photoshop. One thing led to another and I ended up with an idea to join two landscape photos together, one from the city and one from rural Virginia. The result ended up being the collages you see below which was a good bit different than I thought they would be when I started out working on them.

The reason there are so many versions is because I could not decide on any one style or color to post just one so I decided to just post them all. Even one that is considerably different from the others which combined a third photo into the mix. I have dubbed the series 'City of Light' which is the name of a Fennesz song that was playing around the time that I made them.

Note about downloading these: Because there are so many of them I simply made each photo below a link to download the image you click on. I thought this would be the easiest way for it to be done. Alternatively you can also follow this link to download a compressed file containing all of the images in the series. (makes for a nice series to set osx to alternate between automatically or for dual monitor setups.) Also, as always, by downloading these images you agree to my terms of use!

By request I bring to you this photo of a lake near my home. On a late night bike ride down a trail with my brother we came across a bridge that was built over a section of a lake and I just happened to have my camera handy so I pulled it off my back, set it on the bridges railing and started shooting. Even with a 200 ISO setting it came out really noisy which I just don't like in digital photography at all. I guess the 30 second exposure just didn't take to well to the digital sensor. this type of drawback in digital photography make me miss film. I wonder when technology will catch up with its analogue ancestors and if or when that happens it still wont be quite the same. I don't look forward to the day when I read the news story describing the demise of film production. So all ranting aside, I took the photo into photoshop and it did what it does best, touch up the photo. I managed to get most of the junk out and came up with the image you see here. A bit dark in the big version but I happy enough with it to post here. Oh, and if you were curious about the name, it is the name of a Meat Puppets song that was covered by Nirvana waaaaaay back in the day but for whatever reason thats the first thing that popped into mind when the save dialogue appeared. Enjoy!

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click here to download "Lake of Fire"

The following photos were shot on a night that spun way off course. What started out as a night to sit down at a coffee shop somewhere and read with Val turned into a musical evening. After happening upon a blues singer in the coffee shop Val went home inspired to get some music into the night. Starting at the piano we quickly ended up over on the guitar for the remainder of the evening and I was inspired to break out the camera and take a few photos. Please excuse the noise in the photos, I was shooting with nothing but a bedside desk lamp so I was shooting at pretty high film speeds. The result of the photos are the following desktops. They are named after songs that were sung while they were shot. Enjoy!

Note: I have also decided to add a new cropping ratio for certain desktops, maybe all of them from here on depending on the response of the decision. You will see that they now have a resolution of 1920x1200. I decided that with all of the widescreen displays out there today that I could get away with releasing desktops with this ratio. In the end I prefer this to the boxy feeling 1600x1200.

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click here to download "In My Life"

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click here to download "Carolina"

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click here to download "Whisper"

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click here to download "Sunrise Sunset"

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click here to download "LED"