Sunday’s walk involved taking lots of photos. The sun decided he would play hide-and-seek with me most of the walk so I found myself standing and over-composing shots while I waited for a cloud to pass. This is different than over-composting shots, but often the result can be the same. And it meant my walk was probably not as exercise-rich as it could have been, but I got some lovely photos.
This shot is not one of the over-composed ones. I like how the exposure worked with the overly bright pink against the dark center of the tulip and dark background. Also if you look at the larger version (aka the full-sized original file which is 3.5MB), you can see the textures of the petals. I now have this set to be my desktop pattern. Feel free to use it too if you want - just open this link and right-click to save it or set it as your desktop image.
In playing with this I discovered a nifty thing about Firefox too. When I click on full-sized image link, Firefox cleverly resizes the image to fit in the window and scales it appropriately as I resize the viewing window. When I mouse-over the image, my cursor turns into a magnifier so that I can zoom into the full sized image just by clicking. When I click again, the image is resized to fit the window again. Fun stuff. Of course, I’m probably the last person to realize this… but I don’t view big images in Firefox very often. ;) Zoom in to the center of the flower - it’s so cool!
Do you actually see your desktop image? With all the windows and applications I usually have open, I don’t see much of mine. Right now I see the lower right corner of the image - a blurry green leave and a sharply focused edge of a pink petal. Of course, I am particularly bad about open windows in Firefox (thank the gods for tabbed windows!). But still, it seems like I only ever see my desktop image when I reboot (which is rare on my personal computers) or when I hide all my applications to find something I saved to the desktop.
tags: desktop images, firefox,, flowers, macro, photography, pink, technology, tulips
