Desktopography :

At their best, desktop wallpapers bring animation to often lifeless computer screens, reflecting the personality of the user and acting as a calling card for creative talent. The desktopography project arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature / topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers. Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.

Ever since its conception, Desktopography has been a non-profit, fun project and we would encourage you to share this site with family, friends and people you know, there is something here for everyone not just designers. Most of the wallpapers here can be downloaded in a variety of sizes

For the designer, creating wallpapers is a great way to perfect your craft and create images specifically for different environments from desktops and laptops to mobile phones and MP3 players. What we see everyday can affect our mood and state of mind, enhance your desktop with a wallpaper creation from desktopography and feel the essence of nature and the outdoor existence on your computer. Bring tranquility to your desktop, feel the wilderness and give your background a breath of fresh air..

Need I say more?

Here are some of my favourite wallpapers from 2008. (To download the wallpapers, you’ll have to goto Desktopography and get it from there.)

Please visit the site and check out all the wallpapers they have.
Kudos to the creative minds that did all this awesome work. It really is amazing.

I’d like to credit ‘YoutheDesigner‘ for helping me find the original website.

Cheers!

Right on! Right on!

So I now have a new toy to play around with and if you haven’t already guessed, it’s the Canon EOS 400D with a 28-135mm Macro lens.

Yep, I also have a nice grip attached at the bottom. (No, this is not a picture of MY camera)

I have my father to thank for this. Thanks Dad!

As a kid, I never really apprecaited photography.

My father is a very good photographer. National Geographic magazine and a few other magazines (including the Jet Airways in house magazine, some Photography magazines, etc..) have featured my dad’s photographs including some articles he’s written about wild life and photography.
However, as a kid I never truly appreciated this hobby/passion of his.

Of course, that could have to do with the fact that my father really wanted me to pick up his favourite hobby and so he used to push me to like it back when I was a kid and I couldn’t have cared less about photography.
Also, the waking up at 4 in the morning, in the frigid Himalayas, to go take photographs of some obscure random flower that did not want to be found combined with the hours that we had to wait just so the sun would be at the right spot, so that the light would be perfect for the photograph so as to do justice to the beauty of the flower.. etc etc. You get my drift.

As a kid, I didn’t really appreciate all this trouble just to take a ’silly’ photograph.

As it is with all things, time changes everything. I now appreciate the effort my father took to make a photograph look good. I’m even glad in a somewhat resentful way that he dragged me along for those photography sessions of his. If nothing else, I’ve at least learned that patience and endurance will pretty much get you what you desire.

Now to try out some nice cool things with my new camera: Light Graffiti, HDR photo manuplation, etc.. Here are a few examples…

__________________Above - Light Graffiti - Below - HDR Photos ______________________

I pulled these photographs from Abduzeedo, and none of them are mine. Full credit to their respective authors and props to them too.

We’ve all played with Lego at some point in our life or the other, however, many of us stopped because we had to ‘Grow up’. I don’t think we would have ever stopped if we saw any of the maniacs who put these pieces together in action!

I’ve now added a Lego set to my wish-list for this Christmas, and if you scroll down you’ll see why.

Btw: The credits for this find goto: Abduzeedo, that place is absolutely the best!

Please check out a lot more awesome Lego creations here…

Enjoy!

I found some of the most amazing design work at inspiredology.com, which I’m guessing he found somewhere and put together.
Anyway, that’s not the point.

You’d be missing out on some really groovy stuff if you didn’t check out some of the work.

If you liked these, you will most definitely like the others…

Props to the guys for their creativity.
Also, you can check out more work by the artists by clicking on the images.
Cheers!