Unveiling the winners of the Oxygen contest for wallpapers

Posted by ruphy at 21:42 on the 17 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE, Oxygen.

Hello.

With the announcement of the Oxygen Wallpaper Contest in August, we, the Oxygen Team, intended to have the KDE community give the brand new KDE 4 desktop its face – and the response was overwhelming! Artists and KDE enthusiasts submitted around 2000 high quality pictures, most of them being fantastic wallpapers.

The jury, composed of David Vignoni, Nuno Pinheiro, Kenneth Wimer and myself, had a hard time digging through that stack of contributions due to the sheer size and finally pick the ones which will to be shipped as KDE 4.0 wallpapers.

And so, after this long and tedious time of waiting for all of you we’re finally announcing the big winners of this fantastic contest! =)

NOTICE:
Some people in the comments had some worries, and thought it may look suspicious seeing that some of the winning wallpapers are infact being done by some members of the jury. To them I want to answer the following things, which I’ve already answered in a comment replying to Tina:
We voted in a way so that we didn’t know who was the author of a certain wallpaper, the votes were secret, and we couldn’t vote for our wallpaper (the vote was the medium value of the other votes). The credit file was not associated at all with wallpapers.
So nothing to worry about, we’ve studied a voting system, we voted, and we took up the results *always* trying to make them in the most impartial way possible.
That’s exactly because we knew some of our wallpapers were in the competition. =)

It has been a hard time, but it has been worthwile in the end. =)
Here are the thumbnails, names, and some text about the winners:

Name: Finally Summer in Germany
Submitted by Kenneth Wimer (ken at oxygen-icons.org).
This is the image you already saw in the little preview. Taken in Germany a couple of years ago.



Name: Code Poet’s Dream
Submitted by Nuno Pinheiro (nuno at oxygen-icons.org).
Photo taken by the “code poet”, found by Nuno on his Flickr gallery, and heavily retouched by him. I challenge you in finding the original picture. ;-)


Name: Colorado Farm
Submitted by Scott Ingram (scingram at yahoo.com).
HDR Picture from Colorado, US. Taken by a guy who is specialized in taking Colorado pics with HDR (check his website if you don’t believe me ;-) ).


Name: Curls on Green
Submitted by Joseph Connors (josephconnors at usa.net).
We really love this guy. 4 (yes, *four*) of his macro pictures won. That’s totally awesome. Greenish wallpaper for those who love green. (Hey sebas! ;-) )
Here’s his Flickr gallery! Have a look, it’s gorgeous! http://www.flickr.com/photos/jciv


Name: Fresh Morning
Submitted by Pablo León-Asuero Moreno (kapuxino at gmail.com).
I personally just love the drop, and how the green of the leaf blends with the background. Don’t you?


Name: Golden Ripples
Submitted by Joseph Connors (josephconnors at usa.net)
Goldish pic, almost abstract.


Name:Green Concentration
Submitted by Joseph Connors (josephconnors at usa.net).
Very smooth (and green) background, for those who hate color contrast.
Little depht field for a suggestive sensation.


Name: Fields of Peace
Submitted by Kenneth Wimer (ken at oxygen-icons.org).
Oh, the green fields of Germany…


Name: Ladybuggin’
Submitted by Rick Hanley (rhanley002 at aol.com).
One of the first submissions, and one of my favourites.
Love the perfect reflection of the ladybug’s body.



Name: Leaf’s Labyrinth
Submitted by Riccardo Iaconelli (riccardo at kde.org).
It’s astonishing, complex and utterly beautiful what nature holds for us if we take a close look on the details!



Name: There’s Rain On The Table
Submitted by Riccardo Iaconelli (riccardo at kde.org).
Rainy day may turn out to be precious for photography…


Name: Red Leaf
Submitted by Joseph Connors (josephconnors at usa.net).
Red leaf on red background. Lovely.


Name: Skeeter Hawk
Submitted by Tracy Sprader (tsprader at gmail.com).
Rarely well taken pic of a non-so-common subject. We love bugs.


Name: Emotion
Drawn by Vlad Gerasimov (vladstudio at gmail.com).
Blue abstract moire wallpaper. Something that really makes you “wow”.


Name: EOS
Drawn by Vlad Gerasimov (vladstudio at gmail.com).
Fanthastic surreal blue wallpaper, this is the one Nuno loves so much. Is the one he always use in the mockups, the one which you always wonder where he has taken it from.


We really want to thank all the people who participated in the contest. This should not be read as the usual empty phrase said at the end of any competiton, but with its literal meaning and value… personally I’m astonished at the quality of all the submissions we’ve received, which is usually much lower in similar events.
It’s a shame that we had to narrow down to only 15 winners. There are quite a few pictures of a good quality that really deserve to be honored. Most of the submitted images have been of a nice artistic quality, altough not all of them would have worked well as wallpapers… still, there has been a pretty good number (more than 100) of other good looking images, altough just not as much as the above 15.
For that reason, I will probably – maybe in a week or so – put toghether, a list of those ~100 good wallpapers, asking the original submitters to give me permission to republish it with appropriate credit, on the contest website (pd.ruphy.org), perhaps in a tarball, so that others can download it easily. Surely not intending to devalue the proud winners’ first class contributions, this is an offer to these artists to have their work published and rewarded in a specal place inside the KDE universe, and a way to let users have nice wallpapers without having to wait for 4.0 to come out!

So, next common question is: which will be the default? Discover it in the coming days guys, same place. ;-)

171 Comments »

  1. Comment by doppiaVu — November 17, 2007 @ 9:55 pm

    WoW!!!
    I really don’t know which I will use for my dekstop…

    I’m also impatient to download the mega-tarball of the others!!!

    Compliments to all!!!

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  4. Comment by Jakob Petsovits — November 17, 2007 @ 10:15 pm

    Oh, wow. Now where is the directory in SVN where I can get all of those in full resolution before KDE 4 is released?

    So yeah, great pictures, each an every one :D

  5. Comment by Vinicius — November 17, 2007 @ 10:16 pm

    they’re all insanely beautiful. Can’t wait til KDE 4 to have them on my desk. I like mostly the Golden Ripples. Keep with good work, guys.

  6. Comment by Tina — November 17, 2007 @ 10:35 pm

    I’m not sure I get this – three out of four JURY memebers were chosen at least once as winners … by the jury? Although 100 of the other submissions were almost as good. Care to clarify that?

  7. Comment by David Vignoni — November 17, 2007 @ 10:43 pm

    @ Tina

    There have been many good wallpaper that for one reason couldn’t be chosen. Some reasons were:
    - not enough big resolution available
    - author not accepting to release under a certain license
    - nice pictures but with serious blur problems at certain bigger resolutions
    - branded wallpapers with logos (KDE, Oxygen)

    These are some but of the reasons but are not limited to that.

  8. Comment by ruphy — November 17, 2007 @ 10:51 pm

    @Tina:
    I quote exactly what davigno said and I add that we voted in a way so that we didn’t know who was the author of a certain wallpaper, the votes were secret, and we couldn’t vote for our wallpaper (the vote was the medium value of the other votes).

    So nothing to worry about, we’ve tried to make the most impartial votes possible.

  9. Comment by Tina — November 17, 2007 @ 10:58 pm

    Thanks for the reply David, I understand that. But it still seems a bit unusual that the jury was allowed to take part in the contest at all. It’s weird – kind of like a judge judging himself (- no, I’m not one of the contestants).

  10. Comment by ruphy — November 17, 2007 @ 10:58 pm

    @Tina:
    I’d also point out that I wrote that the work has been submitted by Nuno Pinheiro, altough it’s not his picture… he just retouched it and submitted it via the form. Nothing more, nothing less, I added his name and e-mail because I lacked the ones of the other guy (he has been contacted through flickr), but the web address of his gallery will be present at top.

  11. Comment by Seve — November 17, 2007 @ 11:03 pm

    @Jury:
    You must see that it looks a little fishy that such a high proportion of your winners are from yourselves?

    I want to see who wins if you place the top 100 in a dedicated section on kde-look and let us proles decide.

    ps – love the ladybug.

  12. Comment by Koko — November 17, 2007 @ 11:04 pm

    Pleas think about changing “@” and “.” in emails of this artists :) This blog post will be popular and many spamrobots will index this site ;]

  13. Comment by Tina — November 17, 2007 @ 11:08 pm

    @ruphy (first reply):
    I see; maybe you should have said something about that upfront, it sure does look a little suspicious without the background knowledge.

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  15. Comment by Wesley — November 17, 2007 @ 11:42 pm

    I don’t care about chosing a few of your own wallpapers. The fact is that each one of the selected wallpapers are absolutely _beautiful_ and artistic.

    GREAT ARTISTS!! Really. Thumbs up.

  16. Comment by Luke Parry — November 17, 2007 @ 11:52 pm

    What I’d suggest you do when you have enough time is to sieve again through all the submitted images and for any that are good enough artistic value, that didn’t make the cut, put these on Kde-look.org, or when KDE 4 comes out, on the related KNewstuff 2 service, as long as it legally eligble with the original artists who submitted them.

    By the way what happened to those Banana Leaves, nuno was always going on about :P ?

  17. Comment by Ivo Anjo — November 18, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    Great wallpapers!

    I hope you’ll consider also releasing the other wallpapers as part of some module in kde4, so that the distros would package it and include it in their repos (even if it’s not installed by default).

  18. Comment by Thomas Walther — November 18, 2007 @ 12:02 am

    As this is a contest for default KDE wallpapers, I find it absolutely right that you, as the greatest arts contributors for KDE, participated in the contest aswell.

    And they’re all ABSOLUTELY breathtaking! Really.

  19. Comment by drizek — November 18, 2007 @ 12:02 am

    The shade of green in the “Green Connections” wallpaper does not display correctly on many laptop and high resolution LCDs. It is called the “sparkle” effect, and certain colors, such as bright green and, to a lesser extent, white, appeal “sparkly” and “dirty”.

    The lcd on my laptop as well as the DLP on our HDTV both have the sparkles issue.

    I am just pointing this out because the Green Connections wallpaper might be a bad choice for default(although it, like all the other ones, is amazing).

    More info:
    http://www.notebookforums.com/thread69723.html

  20. Comment by Jonathan Michaels — November 18, 2007 @ 12:04 am

    Great work! I’m a huge fan of Vlad’s. Emotion is my pick for default entry. Also love Code Poet’s Dream & Golden ripples. Congrats to all.

  21. Comment by jeff — November 18, 2007 @ 12:06 am

    did I missed something or is there somewhere a link to download the pictures?

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  23. Comment by feng shaun — November 18, 2007 @ 12:31 am

    These beautiful wallpapers just add to my desire and unrest to get my hands on KDE 4.0 and they also make me proud of the openSource community.

  24. Comment by bangert — November 18, 2007 @ 12:46 am

    i have not ever seen a contest in which the jury has been allowed to partake in the same contest…

    you guys have really shot yourself in the foot with this one.

    mirror, mirror, on the wall….

    BUT its never to late to fix stuff! which i would really encourage you guys to do.

  25. Comment by David Vignoni — November 18, 2007 @ 1:14 am

    @ bangert

    I think the goal was to provide a set of wonderful wallpapers. We would have not being able to provide 15 wallpapers, hence the idea to ask people to partecipate. There’s no a prize or something, we choose the best ones. FYI, Riccardo, Nuno, Ken might have submitted 20+ wallpapers in total only them, only the good ones made their way to the final list.

  26. Comment by nuno pinheiro — November 18, 2007 @ 2:02 am

    Riccardo must have submited like 90 or somtyhing :)
    Mine is not realy mine its from code poet or Jim.
    I simbmited alot but non of them are mine :) I was in a rampage, buguing people to submit wallpapers.

  27. Comment by not sure :-/ — November 18, 2007 @ 2:32 am

    it’s probably too late now but you should have done the competition in categories – there are now 7 pictures of leaves…

    some of the winners aren’t great for a wallpaper due to lightning (big brightness/darkness contrast)

    + also getting that “wet lcd bug” with “Green Concentration”

  28. Comment by Demian — November 18, 2007 @ 3:15 am

    @Jury:
    So, if you knew exactly what you were looking for (a reasonable thought based on the result of the “contest”) why make a lot of people waste time?
    Just do it yourself and don’t bother anybody else.
    Don’t tell me that the other three “winners” where unknown to you, because Ken already knows Josh Connors (he selected one of his pictures as the default Ubuntu wallpaper) and Vlad is a well known artist. It wouldn’t surprise me to know that Tracy Sprader is somebody you know personally…
    Sorry guys, this is plain wrong, is sad and is pretty bad PR for you and your project…

  29. Comment by David Vignoni — November 18, 2007 @ 3:33 am

    @ Demian

    Are we in a court? Are you Sherlock Holmes?
    Do you know how long it took to get the final decision? many, too much months. Meaning that maybe Ken have known about Josh because his submissions to the contest.

    Let me play your game. You don’t use KDE, you don’t like all the buzz around KDE4, you hate anything we may do. You probably are one of those who submitted “explicit” material to the contest.

    Please shut up and use the wallpaper you like.

  30. Comment by ethana2 — November 18, 2007 @ 3:38 am

    I don’t think I can vote.. but my favorite, and the one I intend to use by default, is ‘code poet’s dream’.

    I trust these are all licensed properly for Free distribution.

  31. Comment by sebas — November 18, 2007 @ 3:48 am

    The point is really that they, as artists do have the best idea of the overall artistic vision of the desktop. I would really be surprised if they would only for the sake of being in the jury not contribute any wallpapers themselves. Or submit good candidates they found earlier.

    By the way, terrific work on that. And of course thanks to everybody for their contribution.

    Awesome to see such a lot of different greens. :-)

  32. Comment by not sure :-/ — November 18, 2007 @ 6:46 am

    @sebas
    these artist can’t stand criticism.
    and jury taking part of contest is really lame, it’s usually considered not acceptable

  33. Comment by Javier — November 18, 2007 @ 7:22 am

    I’ve been using Vlad’s EOS ever since I found it thanks to Nuno’s Mockups. It is a beautiful design, like most of his wallpapers. I’ve been browsing his site and he really makes some amazing wallpapers. There is a lot of quality work in here, and I was surprised by the amount of nature-oriented winners. I expected to see a lot more abstract (only word I could find for it) wallpapers much like Vlad’s. It’s a really nice variety and I’m happy with those choices!
    I will most definitely look at that page with other submissions if it gets posted!

  34. Comment by Chani — November 18, 2007 @ 10:18 am

    yeesh, such critics. I don’t care if the judges were submitters; it makes sense to have artistic people judge artistic things, and for all those who didn’t RTFA, the judges didn’t even know whose pics they were voting for!

    beautiful wallpapers, and I can’t wait to get a tarball of all the good ones that didn’t win – even the ones with technical problems, because while they might not work at big resolutions, I bet they’ll work fine for my little screen.

    I find it kinda amusing that there’s hardly any blue in the photographs, and the two abstract winners are all blue. :) maybe the categories suggestion would have been good – there are indeed a lot of leaves in there.

  35. Comment by mart — November 18, 2007 @ 10:36 am

    THIS makes me WOW, not some other cheesy os :)
    I think this selection is simply amazing, and lots of green wallpapers simply makes me the most happy kid in the world, looove green :)
    at this moment i don’t think that there is another os/desktop around there with a such beautiful selection of default wallpapers

  36. Comment by livingdots — November 18, 2007 @ 12:29 pm

    The “jury” did a fine job here. No need for such harsh criticism and upset emotions, I think. It makes total sense that the main KDE artists get to decide what default wallpaper to use, and If you don’t like it you can easily change it anyway. (And I do believe most people do that anyway!) The finalists are actually so good I have I have time picking “the big winner.” But “Code Poet’s Dream” and “Curls on Green” looks like something I would pick.

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  38. Comment by Enrico Ros — November 18, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

    Wow! I’m impressed, I really like them all :D Good work guys!
    I don’t care if my submissions are not in this list, because honestly they weren’t as good as this ones(!).

    KDE4 IS GOING TO r0CK!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

  39. Comment by Xasd — November 18, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

    :O

  40. Comment by Pregnant Chad — November 18, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

    So, let me get this straight..

    There were 2000+ submissions for the contest.

    15 were chosen.

    5 of the 15 winning entries came from the contest judges themselves. 3 out of the 4 judges, even.

    That doesn’t sound rigged at all.

  41. Comment by X11 — November 18, 2007 @ 2:58 pm

    Let me guess. The default wallpaper will be… (surprise!) an image created by one of the judges.

    What are the odds?

  42. Comment by matte — November 18, 2007 @ 3:07 pm

    Good, not only them are impressive
    and beautiful, them also are very good
    as wallpapers (not to haigh contrast,
    not too much colors together, so
    icons and plasmoid will not hide)

  43. Comment by hli — November 18, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

    Got it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alphageek/65114074/in/set-1242878/

    By “heavily retouched”, you mean “rotated”?

  44. Comment by ruphy — November 18, 2007 @ 3:33 pm

    @X11:
    I’m afraid not.

  45. Comment by brause — November 18, 2007 @ 4:15 pm

    > We voted in a way so that we didn’t
    > know who was the author of a certain
    > wallpaper

    Ruphy,

    you actually want to make us believe that none of the judges knew that “Finally Summer in Germany” was done by Kenneth Wimer, the Oxygen Project Leader? He blogged about that picture more than a year ago, it’s part of his online portfolio and it’s been available as an alternative Kubuntu wallpaper since quite some time now.

  46. Comment by Kimmik — November 18, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

    Really beautiful wallpapers!

    I would pick Golden Ripples as default.
    -
    I don’t care if the judges took part in the contest.
    It’s opensource, everybody should be able to take part. :)

    Maybe you should just have said that there will be 5 preselected wallpapers by the oxygen guys, and 10 user submitted contest wallpapers.

  47. Comment by David Miller — November 18, 2007 @ 4:44 pm

    @hli – you fail to appreciate the significance of the ;-) at the end of the sentence.

    @brause – since when was Ken the lead of oxygen project? i always thought i was =)

  48. Comment by nuno pinheiro — November 18, 2007 @ 5:20 pm

    We chose the ones we thought were beter, hey ken’s photos are kick ass not having them would be stupid, I gess the one i submited and mede the cut is nice 2, its not mine realy.

  49. Comment by Writer — November 18, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

    Really beautiful wallpapers.

  50. Comment by Antonio — November 18, 2007 @ 5:50 pm

    Can’t wait for KDE4!!
    EOS is my favourite of the bunch.

    The judges submissions were selected for the final 15? No need to complain that much. Just choose whatever you like as your wallpaper, and let the KDE people march on towards the final release!

  51. Comment by Camila Acolide — November 18, 2007 @ 6:28 pm

    I love the wallpapers.
    But I have to agree with Not Sure above.
    Of the 15 winners, 13 are nature themed, and at least 7 are from leaves.
    I really miss more categories.

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  53. Comment by Vista — November 18, 2007 @ 7:38 pm

    Nice way to once again try and emulate Windows. Didn’t Vista come with macro shots just like this? KDE needs to set itself apart from Windows, not try and emulate it.

  54. Comment by David Vignoni — November 18, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

    I don’t care about all the bullshit trolls and anti-kde are creating here.

  55. Comment by David Vignoni — November 18, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

    @ X11

    Let me guess you are not a KDE user.

  56. Comment by feng shaun — November 18, 2007 @ 8:31 pm

    @ Vista

    hahahaha…just laughing is enough for you windoze users! You guys are such fools hanging around.

  57. Comment by feng shaun — November 18, 2007 @ 8:36 pm

    anyway, I trust the judges! For people who don’t like these wallpapers, they can use their own.

  58. Comment by RushingMonkey — November 18, 2007 @ 8:57 pm

    they’re all amazing, personally I would go for Leaf Labyrinth or Golden Ripples, but I think they’re not very suitable for a default wallpaper choice. Emotion is the most suitable imho. I’d liked to see more abstract ones like Emotion and less macro shots, since some of them seems almost “redundant” (see Curls on Green and Fresh Morning). great works btw, can’t wait for the tarball :)

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  60. Comment by Yevgeniy — November 18, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

    I honestly don’t care that the judges got to be the finalists. The main point is that we have some great art work in the end. Also if the judges didn’t participate then we would have less good wallpapers. Please make the other candidates available for download.

    GREAT JOB! – To everyone that participated even if you didn’t get to be a finalist and the judges too.

  61. Comment by mactalla — November 18, 2007 @ 9:33 pm

    Great wallpapers! I love them! Ignore all the people complaining about who participated. The jury are some of the best contributors of artwork to KDE. Why should they be excluded? The contest was a call to others to join in the fun.

    “No good deed goes unpunished” I guess. Anyhow, looking forward to KDE4!

  62. Comment by kcrawford — November 18, 2007 @ 9:53 pm

    Is it just me, or are the judges awfully defensive of their ‘unbiased’ opinions?

    This “contest” seems very rigged. I agree. Why wasn’t the community allowed to judge the work?

    Wouldn’t the best choice have been for the judges to abstain from voting entirely?

    Something is fishy here.

  63. Comment by X11 — November 18, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

    I dont use GNOME -or- KDE, actually.

    Rather than give Linux a distinct face, and a distinct look and feel, both projects have been trying desperately to look like flea-market knockoffs of Windows since 1997-1998. Now they’re trying desperately to look like Vista. Where will it end?

    Is there not enough creativity (or balls) among a single one of you to even fathom the idea of doing something different?

  64. Comment by kinto — November 18, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

    Awesome wallpapers!!
    One question: will EOS be available also in different colors like on vladstudio or is blue only for kde.
    It’s my overall favourite!
    bye

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  66. Comment by nuno pinheiro — November 18, 2007 @ 10:24 pm

    Again we chose the ones we liked best,
    didn’t knew windows had a patent on macro shoots, that’s nice :) .
    But now i know we have to be different ’cause if we are not we are the scum of the earth.
    I mean we must be copying, ’cause we can’t be original, original is only windows or mac…. ooo wait that is another fight all toghether…

    Like some one very dear to me says … “get a life” :)

    It’s just wallpapers, nothing more, we did try to find some kick ass ones, the best we could find, and make them for KDE 4.0.

    (hey dude, I have modified your comment just correcting most spelling errors =) – ruphy)

  67. Comment by Martin "mhb" Böhm — November 18, 2007 @ 10:38 pm

    What a nice collection! I really hope the blue one gets to be the default :o ) (fun intended)

    Folks, don’t be angry at the Oxygen gang for choosing the wallpapers. The open-source world is not really pure democracy, it’s more like meritocracy – who does the most work on artwork gets to decide. All of the judges did a very large amount of work on KDE4. And in my opinion they’ve chosen some very good wallpapers.

    If you disagree with their choices, just choose a different wallpaper, is there anything simpler than that? :o )

  68. Comment by stuart — November 18, 2007 @ 10:51 pm

    Re “Code Poet’s Dream”: “I challenge you in finding the original picture.”

    Given the link to the flickr set, this isn’t really much of a challenge. :)

  69. Comment by Luis — November 18, 2007 @ 10:55 pm

    Amazing work, they’re all gorgeous.

    Don’t let the stupid comments get you down, I’m sure you picked the wallpapers you found better, and even if you were a little partial, it doesn’t matter, you create all the artwork for KDE 4.0, so you can be partial if you want ;)

    I personally love Colorado Farms and EOS.

    Cheers to all of you.

  70. Comment by NotSure — November 18, 2007 @ 11:09 pm

    This is demeaning.

    Do the Linux kernel programmers need to enter a competition when they submit work? It is not surprising most of these entries are photographs. Photography is an artform, but the skill and labour needed for most final pieces falls far short of the skill and labour needed for a painting, illustration etc. A competition entrant is at the whims and tastes of the judges. What appeals to the judges may not appeal to stay at home mothers or blue collar workers. Great pieces of work can fail in favour of lesser works because of the judges tastes. This means that most great artists will never be seen going near a competition. Why devote three days of hard work for what amounts to a random chance event? Someone who devotes two or three hours creating something lightweight or two or three hours taking a photo and then post processing it is more likely to see value in taking a risk. What do the competition organisers believe happens to any real works of art they do not choose as winners? There is a one in one hundred chance that the specific “Ununtu Background” can be recycled into any other use. So to fail at one of these competitions is to guarantee one two or three days of lost work.

    It is demeaning to push artists into this behaviour. Programmers are not put through it. Though I am not surprised from a platform that foolishly believes The GIMP is an artists tool.

  71. Comment by Francis — November 18, 2007 @ 11:34 pm

    Wow. No actual user would ever actually use any of those wallpapers. Nice pic != good wallpaper. I do IT in an office of several thousand people, and none of them use bright or high-contrast photographs are background images.

  72. Comment by NotSure — November 18, 2007 @ 11:37 pm

    Hey X11

    I agree totally. Though they are adding more than a little OSX in nowdays. I would help out with designing a better OS, but there are two things stopping me. FOSS development is not about skill, it is one huge popularity contest. People also agree with what they can visualise, and most people can’t visualise what they have not already seen and used. Catch 22 time. The other reason is that The GIMP is so terrible that I am in the middle of designing an independent UI and toolset for a possible fork, or for anyone else (including commercial) to take up. Unlike the many bad photoshop knockoffs out there (including gimp), it only borrows what is useful from Photoshop, as well as what was useful from Deluxe Paint, Personal Paint, Brilliance, Digi Paint, Toon Boom Studio, Disney Animation Studio, Photogenics (both UIs), Corel Painter, Corel Draw, Director, as well as a number of other tools I know are needed from my decades working as an artist and animator in various studios. The UI is based around a cluster ideal. Every graphics job except digital darkroom jobs, fall down to a cluster of repeated tool usage. Three or four tools switching repeatedly. No fancy UI popups etc., just the right tools for the the jobs as you need them, and set out to limit killing your mouse (or tablet) from exhaustion. I am also building in visual cues for beginners. I am stacking layers to look like a stack of layers, visually showing which part in the undo history is new, and which is about to be pushed off the history list, unifying the behaviours of the tools, discarding the cryptic symbols that have been built up by generations of photoshop UI teams. Not to mention, I am making it look better than any bitmap program in history. I am also consulting with other graphics professionals on their workflows and testing the UI on beginners. So you can see that my spare time is limited for the foreseeable future.

  73. Comment by logixoul — November 18, 2007 @ 11:44 pm

    Yay, Finally =)
    I was hoping the feather one would make it… oh well…

    Colorado Farm, Fields of Peace, Leaf’s Labyrinth, and of course EOS, are my faves.

    I agree with others, too many macro leaves. But, what’s done is done ;)

  74. Comment by NotSure — November 18, 2007 @ 11:58 pm

    Just a note, I am not the same Not Sure as the person at the top of these comments.

  75. Comment by Demian — November 19, 2007 @ 12:17 am

    @David
    You don’t need to be so harsh.
    I’m not saying at all that your work is bad or something similar.
    In fact, I believe the pictures are amazing. I know Josh’s art and think he’s a great photographer. And I didn’t know Ken took so good pictures. I love the images.
    It’s just that I don’t think the contest was a good idea.
    You could have come to the same result if you had done all the thing by yourselves.
    In the meantime, you have a lot of people who participated worried or upset because they can’t know for sure if their work was treated fairly. No matter what you say, it will always be suspicious if a jury takes part in the contests. That’s why no serious contest allows that.
    That’s all.
    If you can’t take some criticism then OK, I’m not going to bother you again.
    But if you appreciate an advice, mine is that next time, try to do it all by yourselves, you’re more that capable of producing and selecting good images for a wallpaper. Or don’t take part in the contests. That’s all.
    Regards

  76. Comment by Arun Gopalan — November 19, 2007 @ 12:30 am

    *speechless*

  77. Comment by Linux Is Less Than Shit — November 19, 2007 @ 12:46 am

    Linux is less than shit, get used to it.

  78. Pingback by Ganadores del concurso de los wallpapers para KDE4 « Informar Es Poco! — November 19, 2007 @ 1:01 am

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  79. Comment by David Vignoni — November 19, 2007 @ 3:37 am

    @ Damian

    I can take “some” criticism, I really do. I’m just a little bit pissed off people using their suppositions as facts to accuse somebody as you did talking about Ken. Not many days ago a Linux.com article based on suppositions made by the author just accused me of something I haven’t done. That’s why I may have been too harsh to your comment, which anyway, really accuses somebody (Ken) based on suppositions.

  80. Comment by Eric — November 19, 2007 @ 4:59 am

    Nice work. I’m not impressed by kde4 so far but those wallpapers look real good. I hope they will be provided with kde4 as default wallpapers pack. That would be a huge change with kde3 which is provided with a huge variety of pictures mixing the ugly and the ‘less ugly’ by most distros.

  81. Comment by Luis — November 19, 2007 @ 6:21 am

    Not sure said: “It is not surprising most of these entries are photographs. Photography is an artform, but the skill and labour needed for most final pieces falls far short of the skill and labour needed for a painting, illustration etc.”

    Hell, so much ignorance is disturbing.

    It may take you more time to paint something, but that doesn’t mean it’s harder. Photography it’s a lot more than just make click on you shiny new Digital Camera, good photos need good exposition, balance, Harmonie, rhythm, contrast, color, etc.

    Why don’t you compare those winning images to one crappy newspaper photo?

    As for any art, you need a lot of knowledge, practice and talent. Will it be valid if I tell you that make Movies is harder than make a paint because it takes more time and resources?

    No of them is harder, which is hard is to make good things :)

    See you.

  82. Comment by NotSure — November 19, 2007 @ 8:12 am

    Hey Luis,

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but one of my jobs is to handle a camera. Not for high art, but as a resource gathering exercise, and to sell images. You may have also missed the point that I have worked in animation studios. I did not mention though that my position was art director. I know what it takes to make a movie, or TV series, or TV advert, and to do it the hard way one frame at a time. I know the training that goes into animators, and they know more about life painting, composition, silhouettes, drawing the viewers eye and attention, as well as acting, and dance, than a room full of normal artists. To snap a great photo really does take hours. I said exactly what I meant. It takes a day, three days, sometimes three weeks for a graphic artist to create a great piece of artwork. It takes an artiste an hour to months to create a great piece of fine art. A skilled person can achieve all three great works. When it comes to the end of the day, a skilled person can snap three or four great photos, a graphic artist may be lucky to have finished one illustration, and a fine artist may have prepped and stretched the canvas. Which art form is fastest? Not which takes the most skill. Training differs, and photography training (which I have also done) is a lot more straight forward. It is the same as graphic art training, minus the paint theory, the art history, the life drawing, the animal studies, the media training, the hand eye exercises. Yes, there is watching your environment and lighting training, but the graphic artist needs that training as well. The only thing that is not in the graphic artists training that IS in the photographers training is the film, and the hardware theory and practical. Now with DSLRs, film theory is being phased out. You call it arrogant, but I will match any photographer blow for blow, and I can do everything from concept art, to tweening to boot.

  83. Comment by Luis — November 19, 2007 @ 8:48 am

    You said:”It is the same as graphic art training, minus the paint theory, the art history, the life drawing, the animal studies, the media training, the hand eye exercise.”

    What? Pardon me. Art history is the first think you study my dear friend. It’s the base, hell, you need to know it.

    And, of course you don’t study hand exercises, but painters don’t study how light reacts to different filters, they don’t study how films react to light and even non-visible light, as you already pointed out.

    Any art is superior to other. You may use different tools, that’s all.

    You should understand, and you need to, if you want to be a good artist :/ that the time you consumed in you work have anything to do with the it being better. You could lose 3 years of your life editing frame per frame a 2 hours movie, and, in the end, it could be, with all respect, a big piece of shit, and at the same time a photographer could use 1 week of his life to make a state of art of photo.

  84. Comment by mamato — November 19, 2007 @ 9:24 am

    Wow, those wallpapers are great and beautiful! I love the green ones :-D

    BTW, why everyone bothered with the contest? the most important thing that we have great wallpapers for KDE 4! If you do not like them, then just use another one!

    For the judges: Just ignore those people :-)

  85. Comment by gravity — November 19, 2007 @ 11:31 am

    I want to thank the jury for choosing these wonderful wallpapers: they are by far the best i’ve ever seen on any linux distro.

    In this case I’m not really interested in who phisically took a picture, even if it’s someone in the jury. These pictures now belong to the community, they’ll be a joy to everyone’s eyes, and I don’t think anyone can deny the beauty of the chosen ones; leaving them out would have been silly, if you ask me.

    Also, there’s not a prize, in this contest, apart from just 15 minutes of celebrity for providing the KDE project a beautiful wallpaper, and if the KDE jury decided to put one of their submissions in the final list, i’m fine with that. They made a very good choice, anyway.

    Plus, I believe these guys deserve our greatest appreciation and respect for all the time they’re taking from their life, studies and careers to put in the redesigning and development of the new KDE, which is a project everyone of us will benefit from, not their personal toy. And from what i can see, they have made and they are still making one hell of a good job.

    Kudos to you, folks.

    Gravity

    (a former SUSE italian user (KDE) who just moved to Ubuntu (GNOME) only because compiz was acting up under Kubuntu, and that is eagerly waiting for KDE 4.0 to be released. Ok, maybe 4.1, but i’ll be there.)

  86. Comment by Dado — November 19, 2007 @ 11:44 am

    Let’s try to break it down really fast:
    the guys in the jury are artists (I hope all those bashers will agree on this) with plenty of experience and are KDE-involved while those submissions were made by all sorts of people, some of which are not that gifted artists as the jury here (not trying to insult anyone, just stating facts).

    I have no doubt that artists will be better artists than non-artists (this seems redundant, I know, but some of these comments make it seem needed) and their work has higher possibility on being good then other people’s. I would mind if the jury did NOT submit their work because I would expect much greater effort from them then others. My two eurocents.

  87. Pingback by CHIP-LINUX-Blog » Blog Archiv » KDE 4: Gewinner des Oxygen Wallpaper Contest — November 19, 2007 @ 11:55 am

    [...] 2.000 Desktop-Künstler sind diesem Aufruf gefolgt, wie das Jury-Mitglied Riccardo Iaconelli jetzt in seinem Blog berichtet. Auf der Webseite stellt Iaconelli die 15 besten Wallpaper vor. [...]

  88. Pingback by KDE Quattro: comincia a delinearsi l’aspetto di Plasma « pollycoke :) — November 19, 2007 @ 1:35 pm

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  89. Comment by Fuffo — November 19, 2007 @ 5:46 pm

    Grande idea, questo contest.
    Complimenti, KDE 4 is gonna rock!!!

  90. Pingback by   Wallpaper’s ganadores para KDE 4  » Cactus Digital — November 19, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

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  91. Comment by Joseph Connors — November 19, 2007 @ 8:30 pm

    The four of mine picked can be downloaded from my Flickr stream.

  92. Comment by Zob — November 19, 2007 @ 9:11 pm

    Last two the best! Nature must die! Zaebali vashi ptichki!!!!

  93. Comment by Redroot — November 19, 2007 @ 9:23 pm

    Nice work.
    Really beautiful wallpapers…

  94. Pingback by Wybrano oficjalne tapety KDE4. - IT Blog — November 19, 2007 @ 9:41 pm

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  96. Pingback by Riccardo Iaconelli » Blog Archive » Ladies and Gentlemans, we have a default wallpaper! — November 19, 2007 @ 9:56 pm

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  97. Pingback by jciv’s blog » KDE 4 Oxygen Wallpaper Contest — November 19, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

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  99. Pingback by Wybrano oficjalne tapety KDE4 - IT Blog — November 19, 2007 @ 11:57 pm

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  100. Pingback by Bitelia » Los fondos de pantalla de KDE4 — November 20, 2007 @ 12:19 am

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  101. Comment by v13 — November 20, 2007 @ 1:08 am

    I believe the result would be a lot more fair (and better) if:
    a) It was an open poll
    b) The Condorcet method was used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method)

  103. Comment by NotSure — November 20, 2007 @ 1:51 am

    Luis

    Richard Williams was probably the only animator to try to make a full blown animated feature film on his own (The Princess and the Cobbler), he spent nearly 30 years part time and in his spare time, that worked out as 20 years full time getting the work close to complete. He eventually had to bring in other animators, but the debts were too much and his creditors took it and had it finished by others as cheaply as possible. The movie length was closer to 90 minutes than 120 minutes. So your assumption just makes you sound like a photographer who is ignorant of just how much work artists put into their work in other fields. Not all art disciplines are point and click. Oh yes, you take three hours in the morning before the sun comes up waiting for just the right moment where the mist and pre dawn light are right across the lake, but it is hardly comparable with devoting your life to just one work of art.

    Learning about filters? I said photographers need theory and practical on their hardware. I believe this includes lenses, filters, flashes, studio soft boxes etc. Now tell me when you have learned to simulate a filter in paint, and simulate the mist in paint, and simulate light or distance haze, or even how to render an image… The 3D term “Rendering” is borrowed from the art field. Before ray tracing software, and even today, artists had/have to learn to render a picture by hand. Every bounce light, every reflection, every fill light, cast shadows versus body shadows. Photography can and is an artform, but to claim it is on an equal footing is assuming far too much. It is the same as macaroni pictures a child creates is a form of art, but you are hardly going to accept that some 25 year old has your skill/experience/training/expertise when he compares his untrained macaroni art works to your photography.

    You learned art history? Well, you are in the minority of photographers.

  104. Comment by Aries — November 20, 2007 @ 1:54 am

    Nice work, guys!

  105. Pingback by jeremy.lonien | Oxygen: Gewinner des Wallpaper Contest — November 20, 2007 @ 1:57 am

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  106. Comment by Luis — November 20, 2007 @ 4:26 am

    You pointed me out to an amazing case, Can I point you to an equal case?

    There are photographers that have go years to certain unfriendly places just to picture how those people live, or how life is there. That went to live whit the sons and daughters of prostitutes to showed how they lived, to jails, to jungles, etc.

    Aren’t those matching the passion on their art?

    It’s not point and click, for actually represent those kind of feelings you have to feel them and understand them.

    Music, Photography, Paint, Dance, and all kinds of arts are just human ways of express feelings and thoughts, the real thing that matters isn’t the tool, it’s exactly that, the feeling.

    You can spend 2 years filming something as underdog, it will never be a real art expression, it isn’t about the time spend, can’t you understand that?

  107. Comment by NotSure — November 20, 2007 @ 7:26 am

    Artists have travelled, and lived with tribes etc to live the cultures, for centuries now. So have authors. Often it is also seen as a lifestyle change for the sake of a change.

    I do not believe that photographers do understand human emotion. If they did they would go to a shoot site, maybe for months at a time, and they would only need one roll of film. They would only need to take the one photograph. Instead, every photographer I have met, and studied under, shoots hundreds or thousands of photos at a time, sometime thousands of photos in a day. The next day, the next week the next year, they review the photos for emotional impact. This does not speak of a great understanding of people, if you need to do it by trial and error, then you are trusting your art to luck and good PR.

  108. Pingback by Fondos de pantalla para KDE4 - Carrero Bitácora de los Hermanos Carrero, David Carrero Fernández-Baillo y Jaime Carrero Fernández-Baillo. — November 20, 2007 @ 10:53 am

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  109. Comment by Jacob — November 20, 2007 @ 11:31 am

    i like
    EOS and
    Colorado Farm

  110. Comment by Repre Hendor — November 20, 2007 @ 3:59 pm

    I’ve no problem at all that a big share of the set of default KDE4 wallpapers are authored by the four judges of the contest themselves. Because they all *are* beautiful!

    However, it wasn’t wise to call it a “competition”, and not outline the exact rules in advance.

    Here is a suggestion for next time:

    (1) The four judges are allowed to take part, but in an “extra run”. They may pick 10 wallpapers which either one of them authored. They can fight it out amongs themselves, or discuss/vote/argue about it as they please.

    (2) There is a public competition, where the judges aren’t allowed to submit their own stuff. Only “outsiders”. From these submissions also pick 10.

    This way you’d avoid that unpleasant trolling we’re seeing now.

  111. Comment by Filozofia — November 20, 2007 @ 4:18 pm

    Great choose!

  112. Pingback by XAM » Blog Archive » Wybrano oficjalne tapety KDE4 — November 20, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

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  114. Comment by Joseph Connors — November 20, 2007 @ 6:50 pm

    Originally the contest was going to choose 10 winners. 11 of the winning desktops are from outside people (10 if you don’t count the Code Poet/Nuno collaboration). The ones by the team are good, leaving them out just because they were done by the team would be stupid.

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  117. Comment by Zarantu — November 20, 2007 @ 10:34 pm

    Greeting’z,

    These might all be Nice images, but None of them Stands out as New and Unique to the New and Uniquely KDE Experience.

    There is only 1 that I would even consider using (Emotion), and its really nothing truly spectacular.

    Where are the Identifying Marks that tell the users, and those passing by a desktop showing Any of these, that this is a KDE Desktop, that in fact its a KDE-4 desktop ?

    Where is the K-Gear, or the K-4 logo, or Konqi ?!

    These are BORING in the extream !

    They give the Impression that what your looking at is the Default wallpapers of either a Micro-Slop, or a Mac-n-Slop desktop!

    The newly chosen Default is in My Opinion the Absolute Worst of the entire set, and Suffers from this Too Bright, vs Too Dark idiocy. Are you trying to Blind the users ?

    On My systems, Everything I have so far seen Labeled “Default” for KDE-4, will only remain so long enough to Change them, and thats sad.

    Good Defaults should be so good that

  118. Pingback by Wallpapers campeãs! - 15 wallpaper que ganharam um concurso! « Vista eXPerience — November 20, 2007 @ 11:16 pm

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  119. Comment by Marco Cimmino — November 21, 2007 @ 1:47 am

    yes I’m a submitter, yes I use KDE under Kubuntu every day, yes I like KDE 4.0 and…

    NO!

    I don’t like people that judge and should be judged at the same time, this is unfair!

    Even without a winner, without a prize, without anything.

    Choose: or you submit or you decide who wins, if not, then don’t give us a false contest.
    Probably my pictures had not win for one good reason, but it’s unfair anyway.

    my 2 cents

  120. Pingback by Wybrano oficjalne tapety KDE4 | Komputery, internet serwis — November 21, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

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  121. Comment by Luis Aguiar — November 21, 2007 @ 5:08 pm

    E pra quem nao curte temas com natureza??

    tao puxando a sardinha …

    ———————————

    If I don´t like nature themes??

  122. Comment by CARLOS HENRIQUE — November 21, 2007 @ 5:25 pm

    Bom dia venho parabenizar a todos por pelas belissimas fotos

  123. Comment by gilberto — November 21, 2007 @ 5:27 pm

    acho uma merda, só fotos da natureza, muito fácil e a meu ver muito fraco

  124. Comment by Br!@N — November 21, 2007 @ 5:39 pm

    Very good!!!
    God Job! This pictures are very nattural and expressive.
    One more time, congratulations!
    ^^

  125. Comment by Rose Bicudo — November 21, 2007 @ 5:49 pm

    Unfortunately I was not able to see any of the pictures!
    Instead, just a square with an “x” !
    Quite disappointing!

  126. Comment by ruphy — November 21, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

    @Rose Bicudo
    Pretty strange, please try to refresh the page…

  127. Comment by cibelle — November 21, 2007 @ 6:46 pm

    não gostei,parece capa de site de cosméticos, ou fitomedicamentos, horrivel…

  128. Comment by Marivaldo Boeloni — November 21, 2007 @ 7:00 pm

    Guys,

    I have seemed many pictures screensavers better and more beautiful than. My wife got pictures, about flowers, bugs, sun and beach unbelievable. So, these pictures are simple, common. They are beautiful, but, common.

  129. Comment by julia — November 21, 2007 @ 7:09 pm

    “Name: Golden Ripples
    Submitted by Joseph Connors (josephconnors at usa.net)
    Goldish pic, almost abstract.”

    Bealtiful!!!

  130. Comment by rogerio caldas — November 21, 2007 @ 7:24 pm

    sincerament, nao sei o porque de tanto alvoroço por umas fotos meio sem graça… sao bonitas porem existem fotografias, muito mais criativas e sensasionais, mas estas ai, sao comum demais para ganharem algum premio.
    retratar a natureza nessas imagens nao foram boas ideias… e eu nao gostaria de tê-las em meu computador

  131. Comment by Ivan — November 21, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

    Eis o 15º Wallpaper, não concorreu mas com certeza seria o mais belo:

    http://www.photodromm.com/large09.htm

    Na minha opnião, o tema aborda com naturalidade o nú artístico, sem malícias. Merece Todos créditos.

    Aprecie no seu desktop!

  132. Comment by Paulo Conde — November 21, 2007 @ 7:41 pm

    gostei muito das paginas e vejo como foi dificil escolher a melhor enre os melhores planos de fundo

  133. Pingback by KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1 « Geek Next Door — November 21, 2007 @ 10:15 pm

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  134. Pingback by KDE 4 wallpapers « Stefon’s Blog — November 22, 2007 @ 12:30 am

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  135. Pingback by El Wallpaper de KDE 4- de nuevo asusencia de originalidad. « Tuxlink — November 22, 2007 @ 6:48 am

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  137. Comment by Tereza — November 22, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

    Sao todas muito feias nao sei por que estao concorrendo algum premio pois nao usaria uma dessas em meu pc no meio de tantas outras que a gente encontra por ai… Sem graça de mais

  138. Pingback by KDE4 Release Candidate 1 | A.Faith Blog — November 22, 2007 @ 7:12 pm

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  139. Comment by Lucas — November 22, 2007 @ 8:36 pm

    Eu gostei de todas, não sei se as usaria, mas gostei especialmente da Emotion.

  140. Pingback by Unixjam.it » Wallpapers ufficiali di KDE4 — November 22, 2007 @ 9:04 pm

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  141. Pingback by informatix » Wallpapers KDE 4 — November 23, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

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  142. Comment by informatix — November 23, 2007 @ 4:03 pm

    Ho corretto il post… ma toglimi una curiosità… dove si trovano i wallpaper in versione “integrale” da scaricare???

  143. Comment by fabiano leme — November 23, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

    Olá, sou de São João da Boa Vista, Brazil, as imagens são lindas, mas acho que ainda existam imagens mais bonitas ainda, apesar de que foram selecionadas, mas pouca gente sabia desse concurso

  144. Comment by hansi — November 24, 2007 @ 3:02 am

    griaßt enk, leitln. i bins der hansi. wo gibs denn de zünftigen bildn zum orloden? servus drweil!

  145. Comment by KristjanS — November 26, 2007 @ 3:12 am

    Reminds me of Redhat wallpapers. Good wallpaper choice, but I wouldn’t use any of those. No problem though, that’s what the custom wallpaper option is for. :)

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  147. Comment by Mikey — November 28, 2007 @ 9:42 pm

    Yeah, this is a very very cool blog. ;-)
    I just added you to my favorites.

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    Mikey

  148. Comment by Mihail Mezyakov — December 2, 2007 @ 10:52 am

    great work. But where a gears?

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  152. Comment by 3D wallpapers — December 7, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

    The “Finally Summer in Germany” is truly fantastic! The richness and delicate use of colors in this one is breath taking!

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  157. Trackback by hintergrundbild pc — February 25, 2008 @ 3:34 am

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  164. Comment by Rony B Chandran — May 5, 2008 @ 6:43 pm

    tuk.. tukk… :)

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  167. Comment by [Po]lentino — February 13, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

    – I challenge you in finding the original picture ;) –

    Found !!!
    http://flickr.com/photos/74122471@N00/64581582/

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  170. Comment by Bilal — June 10, 2009 @ 10:04 am

    I found different wallpapers here and all are so lovely and nice.

  171. Comment by winter wallpapers — July 1, 2009 @ 11:19 am

    Hello. do you some collection of seasons wallpapers espacially winter wallpapers. post in your blog

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