This was Nimish’s idea. I merely provide the imagery. He stroked my enormous ego and then asked me to provide hi-res images of some blogsnaps. So that he could have “royalty free wallpaper” on his computer screen.
In lieu of payment, please make a generous donation to that poor Nigerian fellow who cannot get his deceased uncle’s fortune out of the country … Gosh I hope he’s OK!
The images below have been configured to display well at fairly high resolution settings. The files are around 200-300K in size. Click on a thumbnail below to see the full sized image. Then right-click on the image and choose “Set as Desktop Wallpaper”, or save the image somewhere and use it however your system works.
P.S. Cantueso, I tried to lighten the images up a bit. However your comment about their darkness is one I’ve heard (and tended to ignore) many times in the past. When I printed these in a real darkroom, I always tended to print them dark.
By: Nimish Batra on March 12, 2008
at 11:21 am
poor Nigerian fellow who cannot get his deceased uncle’s fortune out of the country
By: Adam on March 12, 2008
at 12:28 pm
I’m rotating them, one a week, starting at the top.
Thanks MB,
now I too have a nice crapstack of happiness, just knowing these comfortable old image-memories of mine are glowing on others’ screens!
By: moonbeammcqueen on March 12, 2008
at 9:35 pm
Oh crap. I just read this:
In lieu of payment, please make a generous donation to that poor Nigerian fellow who cannot get his deceased uncle’s fortune out of the country … Gosh I hope he’s OK!
Um…I just wrote a check. A really big one, and I stuck it in the mailbox. D’oh! Did I forget to sign it?
At least you can honestly say “it’s in the mail”. Or, get YOUR deceased uncle to spam the world and the hex will be reversed. I think.
By: moonbeammcqueen on March 12, 2008
at 9:37 pm
Thanks, MrDavid . . these are awesome. You are awesome.
Yer welcome MrsRed! You’re too kind! Maybe I’ll just have to inflict y’all with some more of these old pix.
By: Red on March 13, 2008
at 9:39 am
*Polite Cough
Thanks NB!!!!!
By: Nimish Batra on March 13, 2008
at 1:26 pm
[...] response/thanks to this, I’m bringing out some photos that I have taken @ Bangalore. All the photos are clickable and [...]
Retaliatory gratitude, like revenge, is best served on the INTERWEB!
By: In retaliation, and gratitude « Nimish Batra, The Life and Times of on March 13, 2008
at 2:21 pm
Guess who’s gonna give herself a new desktop at work???????
Thanks, that is some serious awesome-ness of you
You’re welcome Romi. I’m glad you like.
By: romi41 on March 13, 2008
at 9:26 pm
I was heavily tempted by the NYC photo, but in the end I took the bedsprings. Thanks!
Collect the whole set Wendy! Totally free! More to come …
By: Wendy on March 13, 2008
at 11:49 pm
[...] But, what really motivated me to participate in today’s photo expose was to highlight another blogger friend’s photo work: Thoughts-0-Dave. [...]
By: Black & White « Idea Jump! on March 14, 2008
at 9:39 am
Like wildfire spreads the meme,
Photos being the theme,
I’d say something silly,
Who’s eating the anti-fungal cream?
(No honestly, who does that kind of… eugh!
[Homer Simpson] MMMMMM anti fungal cream! glah glah glah drool …
By: Nimish Batra on March 14, 2008
at 12:06 pm
It’s official, the ocean is now my desktop background!!!
In a related story, I find myself very distracted at work, and gazing aimlessly into my screen…sigh…
PS: thank you!
You’re welcome Romi. I’m so proud and happy to have this presence on my bloggefreunden’s desktops.
Be careful your dreams don’t chafe under the harness.
By: romi41 on March 14, 2008
at 1:39 pm
I took the city one. I love candids of people.
By: joanharvest on March 14, 2008
at 11:49 pm
Oh, almost forgot, Thanks, I was really sick of my wallpaper. Now I have something wicked cool to look at.
You’re welcome Joan.
I’m pretty sure that photo was taken on a weekend, when I was visiting NYC with a friend. I’ve always imagined that that pedestrian lady was on her way to either church or a funeral.
By: joanharvest on March 14, 2008
at 11:50 pm
I have never used a camera and don’t know a thing about photography, but I have a picture collection, and at least of older scans I am almost sure they got darker.
However, in JPEGs any small modification will suddenly reduce the size of the photo. And at that time I may not have known that. It is not the kind of thing I learnt very willingly, no. I learn it teeth-gnashingly. It used to feel like I was employed half time by Explorer, half time by Kodak, half time by Word97, and I just barely avoided getting employed by PhotoShop and Adobe.
You have never used a camera? Never taken a picture? EVER? In your WHOLE LIFE?!?! Sorry to shout, but I find that so incredible.
And to be honest I though you were making a computer geek joke about JPEGs darkening. I should not try to explain the joke as that is always pointless …
Now I get that you’re saying the scanning process resulted in digital images that were darker than the originals, yes? That happens.
By: cantueso on March 15, 2008
at 11:58 am