I usually use cars for my desktop backgrounds. But I like to switch it up from time to time and use pictures photographers have taken of landscapes and stuff. If you want these in 1600x1200 format, just pm me and I can email them to you. Here are some of my favorites though. Post up what you got or other pictures of/on this planet that make you go, "woah, that's beautiful" or "that's really cool."

9/6/2009 2:41:15 PM

here's some i took in Australia 8 yrs ago









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9/6/2009 2:43:38 PM

how do they get the colors so vivid?

9/6/2009 2:50:38 PM

those pictures aren't all that spectacular

9/6/2009 2:52:08 PM

i, too, am still waiting for the epic earth pictures

9/6/2009 2:59:50 PM

the official exepecting huge resolution pictures of the earth but did not get them thread

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

9/6/2009 3:00:45 PM

the one with the red mountaintops is pretty awesome, tho

9/6/2009 3:01:31 PM

here are a couple from Marseilles

9/6/2009 3:39:13 PM

my desktop



too small for my desktop but beautiful anyway

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9/6/2009 3:55:29 PM

This is currently in my background rotation:



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9/7/2009 12:41:31 AM

the aurora borealis goes on the list

9/7/2009 12:51:16 AM

^^ where is that?


^ that is really cool. Wish I could see those in person

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9/7/2009 12:52:34 AM

9/7/2009 12:59:55 AM

Maybe not epic, but the large version of this sunset that I took at Bath (the first town in NC), has spent time as my desktop background for its aesthetic & historical value.

9/7/2009 1:05:49 AM

9/7/2009 1:21:27 AM

^^I've visited Earth, it looks nothing like that.

9/7/2009 1:22:39 AM

ibt



oh wait ^ there it is

9/7/2009 1:35:16 AM

Quote :

"the official exepecting huge resolution pictures of the earth but did not get them thread"

orly? So that way someone with a small monitor can bitch about side scrolling?

Nice pictures in this thread... slamjamason, can I get a high res. of that?

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9/7/2009 2:53:50 AM

dammit you fucking ass jcg15

fuck you...fucker

9/7/2009 3:15:55 AM

Quote :

"that is really cool. Wish I could see those in person"

About 10 years ago there was a night you could see them in Raleigh. I thought I was going crazy until they mentioned it on the news the next morning

9/7/2009 7:50:56 AM

i read "epic earth people"

and thought this was a kool keith thread

9/7/2009 10:14:49 AM

Quote :

"how do they get the colors so vivid? "

It's a combination of Oversaturation and HDR photography. Both involve photoshop. Sad, but true.

9/7/2009 1:25:48 PM

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/wallpapers/

9/11/2009 3:06:24 PM

^^dont polarized lenses have anything to do with it?

9/11/2009 3:09:24 PM

I have a pretty shitty camera, but here are some I took when backpacking Europe last year:

Interlaken (Swiss Alps):







Cinque Terre, Italy:





Santorini, Greece:




Lake Waccamaw, NC:








Look at this thread and my pictures...I've come to 2 conclusions...(1) I have a shitty camera and (2) I take bad pictures.

9/11/2009 3:31:07 PM

side scroll, haha!

9/11/2009 3:34:23 PM

Stephen, I might have some cool photos for you. I took a lot at the top of Mount Haleakala before and during sunrise when I was in Hawaii last year.

Nothing online, but I'll go through them next week and look around.

9/11/2009 3:50:28 PM

NTLB...

^I'd love to see them Pat

here's a couple from Atlantic Beach June 2009

10/4/2009 3:02:37 PM

Is that all you guys have?

WEAK

10/20/2009 3:03:30 PM

10/20/2009 3:47:53 PM

10/20/2009 3:49:02 PM

10/20/2009 3:50:21 PM

^that pic wins

10/20/2009 3:53:48 PM

wins

10/20/2009 3:54:23 PM

10/20/2009 3:58:15 PM

^freakin sweet

10/20/2009 4:09:19 PM

reminds me of my cloud thread

10/20/2009 4:10:38 PM

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10/20/2009 4:19:14 PM

i too like HDR photography

10/20/2009 4:23:43 PM

this thread makes me

10/20/2009 5:30:42 PM

jethromore wins! I am epically scared and in awe at the same time. gg

10/20/2009 5:41:34 PM

Looks like a giant electrified elephant emerging from the clouds haha

10/20/2009 6:13:20 PM

Oh shit it's a hellephant

10/20/2009 6:45:58 PM

10/10 would view again.

10/20/2009 6:48:09 PM

While a hellephant would be quite scary, I find the truth more disturbing. It's a valcano.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-volcano-lightning.html



speaking of lightning...

10/22/2009 9:11:24 AM

^ the tornado one is photoshopped

10/22/2009 9:45:40 AM

10/22/2009 10:31:55 AM