What thrilling photo d'you have as your desktop image?

[Greenheart]

I try to change mine about once a fortnight...it makes switching-on each time, so refreshing.

I used to have a truly fabulous pic of an all-wood Contender dinghy, speeding rather thrillingly across open water. Whether my colleagues knew about sailing or not, they shared a moment of understanding why I like it. Here it is...(needs adjusting, to fill the screen. I had help.)... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Contender_sailing_dinghy.jpg

Interesting, how some well-known classes seem not to be well-recorded in photographic terms. That 'Boatshed' service, typically with 60/70/80 pictures of each boat for sale, has broadened my familiarity with a lot of designs, large and small, which used to be just names to me.

A decent desktop image ought to be a pleasantly evocative sensory jolt, like that ozone-smell, or a long, low foghorn drone, or that unreal glowing green you see in surf conditions. Most of us would sooner be out there than in here...what's on your screen at start-up, which recalls your undying underlying passion?

 

[Kilter]

I agree that

A decent desktop image ought to be a pleasantly evocative sensory jolt

and that's why I have a photo of Mrs K adorning my desktop!

 

[Greenheart]

You creep! Obviously Mrs K reads this forum, too?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Here's mine.

Any guesses?

 

[Kilter]

You creep! Obviously Mrs K reads this forum, too?

Actually she doesn't Dan!

 

[Greenheart]

Wow! That's loyalty, then. May...we...see your desktop image?? Or, is your sensory jolt a tad...naughty?!

Ken, I don't recognise your locale. Looks somehow like the Fens to me.

 

[Dipper]

Too easy for a 'Where is it?'.

 

[Greenheart]

Lulworth Cove, was there last month.

Must admit, when we drove fifteen miles extra, to get round the red-flagged military sites, I was a little disappointed not to see Army RIBs offshore, haring about keeping the waters clear as an artillery barrage fizzed up the sea for a mile or two off the cliffs. Do they ever do that?

 

[Kilter]

Here's mine.

Any guesses?

Would it be on your desktop perchance?

 

[Hornet_UK]

Here's mine!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Here's mine!

Amazed that they had digital photography in those days!

 

[alahol2]

Here's mine. Not thrilling but calming and evocative.
Know where it is?

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Too easy for a 'Where is it?'.

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Is that a Yak wing? Nice long ailerons.

 

[Gordonmc]

I generally don't bother with a desktop background as the icons get lost in the clutter, but this is fairly neutral:

Taken on a Med dive a couple of months ago. The barracuda were about a metre and a half long.

 

[Greenheart]

As soon as the icons begin to reduce the pleasure available from the picture...I recycle a few icons! Nice 'cudas. Nothing like good kudos.

 

[Hornet_UK]

Amazed that they had digital photography in those days!

Me too! It was taken with one of these:

 

[Dipper]

Is that a Yak wing? Nice long ailerons.

Piper Warrior out of Compton Abbas.

 

[agurney]

Generally this one I took of Jura, however it's going to be replaced shortly with a batch that I took at last weekend's Crinan Classics, and hopefully this weekend's Tall Ships' event in Greenock.

 

[Dipper]

Lulworth Cove, was there last month.

Must admit, when we drove fifteen miles extra, to get round the red-flagged military sites, I was a little disappointed not to see Army RIBs offshore, haring about keeping the waters clear as an artillery barrage fizzed up the sea for a mile or two off the cliffs. Do they ever do that?

They have two range vessels much bigger than RIBs that guard the Sea Danger Areas. I've never seen anything land in the water. I think it is a precaution in case shells make it over the top of the hills. I have seen shells land in the water from Wembury Range though.

 

[Vara]