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Vernazza, May 2011. This is a 1920×1200 wallpaper, so it’ll do for 17?MacBook Pro and anything smaller. Click the image to access the larger file.

I almost cried “uncle” on this one and didn’t post a wallpaper, but I started feeling left out. This was shot a week before I fell of the wall in Pisa, 40 days ago. It’s Vernazza and it’s one of my favourite places to walk around. Ah, I remember those carefree days when I could, you know, walk and stuff.   I left the hospital today and am now camped out at my family’s home south of Ottawa. I get around with either a wheelchair or by crawling which, frankly, is exhausting. Now I know why baby’s start walking, the crawling is just too friggin’ tiring. All the way through this, the community that rallies around this blog, and twitter, has been unbelievably supportive and kind – thank you again so very much for the love.

San Francisco, February 2011. This is a 1920×1200 wallpaper. Just didn’t have the attention span, with these pain meds, to do a couple different sizes. So this’ll do for 17″MacBook Pro and anything smaller.

Ok, folks, the Desktop Wallpaper is up for the month. You didn’t think I’d let a dozen broken bones stop me from doing this, did you? (For those to whom that is confusing, read the previous post, And Then I Fell.)

I’m still at The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus. Hoping today is surgery day. After that I could be here for 6 weeks then another 2 months of off-my-feet rehab while my pelvis heals. Other than that, no updates. Doctors are talking about an in-bed recovery of 3 months. I promise to be a good patient, to listen to them, follow their orders, and prove them wrong.

I know I’ve said it, but I’ll say it again and again over the coming months: thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. This community is one of the rare online communities that is not beset with trolls and haters and people for whom life is so long they have time to argue about cameras. It’s full of incredibly kind, compassionate people and I like to think you’re all rubbing off on me. I’m a better person for this community. For all the hundreds and hundreds of emails and shout-outs and kind words – thank you. If I could heal by virtue of good vibes and the quality and quantity of friends, I’d be on my feet already. To every single one of you, including sponsors and my publishers, family, friends, and most astonishingly: people I’ve never met, that have asked to help, offered company, or sent tokens of support: I am grateful beyond words.

Desktop wallpapers are here for April, fresh from Bandon, Oregon. Enjoy. I hope you’re in the mood for, well, moody. Click the link above for the small one and HERE for the much larger one. Enjoy!

March is coming and with it some big changes. And a new wallpaper. Click the image above or HERE to get the small one, and HERE to get the big one.

I made this photograph on the Masai Mara in late January, part of a one-month sojourn in Africa and time among nomadic tribes in the north before flying home to pack my life into boxes and prepare to begin a nomadic journey myself. It’s now the end of February as I write this. Every stick of furniture has been sold, conveniently, to the woman moving into my old condo. My remaining possessions have been boxed and stored, and my cameras and laptops and other essentials have been put into Pelican cases and packed in the truck. The truck, Jessie (read more about Jessie and our travel plans HERE), has had some issues and it’s been an adventure just getting her ready for this journey. Some of the pieces got done very last minute, some will just have to wait.

Tomorrow morning my buddy Al Smith and I will jump into the Land Rover and head to Tofino for a few days on the far west side of Vancouver Island to get the bugs out of the truck. Then I’ll come back to Vancouver, pick up Dave Delnea and head south towards Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, down the Oregon coast and eventually to San Francisco. At San Francisco Dave will fly home and I’ll just keep going.

Keep an eye on the blog, and on Twitter – that’s where you’ll find me, and when I pull into a town with time to spare I’ll let you know where you can find us and share a coffee or a meal.

Ok, big deep breath. Here we go.

Happy New Year! Wishing you the very best for 2011.

January wallpapers are now here in both 2560×1600 and 1280×800.

Photographed in Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand just before the skies opened and drenched us all. We spent the evening hiding from Sandflies in the RV, but oh, is Milford Sound gorgeous. The drive there is breathtaking.

The smaller wallpaper is all yours by clicking the image above, the larger one can be had by clicking HERE. Enjoy!

December wallpapers are now here in both 2560×1600 and 1280×800. I want you to know they don’t get much fresher than this. I’m in my RV parked for the night with this view outside. I shot it 30 minutes ago and am now downloading it via 3G USB stick. I love the times we live in!

Photographed outside Havelock, South Island, New Zealand after a spectacular dinner of greenshelled mussels – grilled with garlic – and some nice dark local-ish beer.

The smaller wallpaper is all yours by clicking the image above, the larger one can be had by clicking HERE. Enjoy!

PS – There’s some funky posterization occuring in these wallpapers that I just noticed and the only way I can seem to get rid of it is with a gradient, blur, and adding some noise.  It’s getting late here so instead of re-doing this whole post and tapping out my bandwidth, HERE’s a link to a large less-posterized version. Sorry for the hassle.

November wallpapers are here early, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853. If it’s OK with you I’ve decided to forgo the monthly calendar. Leaving it off is much less work for me but also makes these a little more timeless.

I shot this on the edge of Tso Moriri, a high-altitude lake in Ladakh. This was really just a scouting shot, I wanted to go back the next night but life had other plans and (a) the tents were taken down the next morning, (b) my boots were stolen, and (c) I ended up desperately sick. It’s a good reminder to get the shot while you can. There might not be a tomorrow. Weather moves in. Things happen. Life gets in the way. Shoot it while you can.

The smaller wallpaper is all yours by clicking the image above, the larger one can be had by clicking HERE.

I’m posting this early in hopes that we can all move on from the Nikon discussion, which I posted after so many questions about my decision to make the switch. And I gotta tell you I nearly put money on the fact that this community would respond well to that post. I should have done so, because with the exception of one person who posted anonymously (#155) telling me I was getting a demerit point for using the word “retarded” in a derogatory sense, the comments and discussions were amazingly free of the usual lunacy these topics instigate. So you all get gold stars and my continued respect and thanks for keeping this community one of the exceptions in the online photography world (and there are others, but you make this place special. Thanks!)

October wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853. This one’s a little experimental, lacks the monthly calendar (I’m in a hotel in Bangkok heading to Kathmandu tomorrow), and has an experimental logo as well. Figured if people are going to hate it, they might as well hate it for multiple reasons. If you don’t like it don’t freak out; for one, I’m not likely to see the comments for a while and by then it’ll be too late, and for another, it’s just a wallpaper and it’ll get changed in less than a month. Unless I forget November’s and then you’re stuck with it for TWO whole months and, frankly, I’d moan about that too. Anyways, shot this heading up to Khardung Lah, the highest motorable road in the world at almost 19,000 feet in Ladakh. Last year we rode Royal Enfield’s over it, this year we took SUVs and almost didn’t make it.

I’m auto-posting this for Monday, October 04, by which time I’ll be with the Kathmandu Within The Frame team. It’s still going to be quiet around here for a while but I’ll try to chime in with a postcard if I can. Kathmandu has a tough time with consistent electricity, let alone internet. But if I can get a postcard to you while sipping a chai on a break with the team, I’ll do so. Promise.

The smaller wallpaper is all yours by clicking the image above, the larger one can be had by clicking HERE.

September wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853. *The first versions I posted gave you one extra day, which is good for some but confusing the rest of the world. They’re fixed now.

I shot this in Iceland in the driving rain, with a 24mm/3.5 tilt/shift lens. So struck by the vastness of space in Iceland, and the almost tiny influence of man on the landscape, I decided to explore some of those themes. This is one of my favourite images from that trip, and it now hangs large – 40×60 – on canvas in my home. You can explore all the Iceland images, and my process in creating them, on September 9th when we launch the next eBook in the Craft & Vision library.

I’m off to Ladakh, Thailand, and the Kathmandu valley on Sept.10. After that it gets quiet, but I promise I’ll check in when I can with a postcard.

Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one. And if you want one for the iPad, sans monthly calendar, click the iPad:

August wallpapers are here, in both 2560×1600 and 1280×853.

I shot this in Gasworks Park in Seattle as a creative exercise exploring abstracts on a theme – the theme of this simply being blue. This is a closer view of  larger piece of machinery, de-focused to allow the shapes and colours to interact without the need to be something specific. Not my usual thing but in the coming year there’s a good chance you’ll see a little more of this as I work at stirring my own paint creatively.

I’m in Iceland until the 9th 0r 10th. With any luck I’ll check in with you but don’t hold your breath!

Click the image above for the smaller wallpaper. Click HERE for the larger one.