I love seeing the offices of design mavens because they inevitably have some fabulous desktop wallpaper on the screen for the photo op, always something that complements the rest of the design of the office.
Case in point: Making it Lovely's Nicole shared her office recently, and my eye gravitated immediately to her Mac and the art on her desktop, the colors of which coordinate with the dominant pinks and reds of her office space.
I too enjoy a pretty, serene wallpaper as the setting for the madness that takes place on top of it; right now I can't seem to shake the Kaiku Marimekko pattern. Other times, I want to see a family pic stretched across my monitor, and sometimes I crave a simple, solid color to calm me. And I am not opposed to a really high-res photo of a flower (shoot, I am a girl).
But I'm curious about everyone else, since I think your computer's desktop wallpaper says a lot about you; What's yours?

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A medium blue solid background with a wedding photo centered in the middle of the screen. Otherwise, I alternate between the XP florals and abstract designs.
1It rotates, but I get all of my pics from Pixelgirl Presents
2I usually get my wallpapers from Pixelgirl Presents, too. However, just today, I changed mine to one of my favorite online comics: Sheldon.
3For me, it really just depends on how I'm feeling or if I find a really new pretty one. Recently all the wallpapers I get are off of deviantART, but I'm a member there so it's convinent, plus, I now have a wide screen monitor and haven't gotten ps7 up and running yet on a new computer.
4My wallpaper is a cat dressed in a superman costume. The cat sort of looks like my cat Socks
5it's a really beautiful photograph of a flower with little vector bits. you can see it (in a scaled down version) here.
6sorry, I forgot the other half of the link!
http://www.tidalblue.net/desktop.jpg
7My dad lets us change the background on the computer to whatever we want. I'm usually the one that does it. It is usually from a television show or is an actor/actress. Right now it is a picture my dad took of my mom's name that is set up like a train. They both like it so I put it up for them. It must get annoying to see a random guy/woman on the computer every few weeks.
8I have a funny picture of my 8 month old. It is the total look of surprise and I imagine he is saying "wha wha wha what???"
9My laptop (since I don't use it much) is one of the nature default pictures from Apple (thanks apple!). But my computer that I am usually on, is one i made in photoshop a week ago.
I really like the Marimekko....I may actually use that one myself!
10mines just a pink and white heart icon tiled across
11My desktop computer has a vintage photograph of a women in '20s underwear holding a cat in an adorable pose. I just recently changed my laptop wallpaper from a black and white photo from the Library of Congress Flickr feed of two young women and a (now vintage) car in winter to an image of cool-looking empty bottles from Steampunk Wallpaper. I have other images I use, but most are either vintage, probably public-domain photographs (usually sepia-toned, but possibly black and white) or something similar looking from Steampunk Wallpaper.
12This is the absolute best site to get all kinds of scenic wallpapers in many different resolutions:
http://interfacelift.com
I use those and my computer rotates them.
13My Mac desktop rocks a beach scene I will NEVER get rid of (it hasn't been changed in years!).
My HP laptop is always something minimalistic in design.
And my work desktop is the original blank background of windows classic... I don't like being distracted at work by wallpaper
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14Mine's a great pic of the Grand Canyon that motivated me before my vacation. Now I need to update with one I took myself!
15A picture of the NYC skyline at night.
16this:
17http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4042/2583737372e2e93cfb8cbcz2.jpg
this:
18http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4042/2583737372e2e93cfb8cbcz2.jpg
A photo of a young Black Flag Henry Rollins yelling his head off, neck veins a poppin'.
19Currently it is the default mac blue with the swirls because I just use my laptop on the bed so I cant enjoy the wallpaper or show off to anyone. Before it was this great shot I took of these fruits that grow on campus in macro in bright reds and greens. I loved it
20Mine is from the movie Imagine Me and You.
21A needlepoint design from Veer, reading "Studio, Sweet Studio."
22When I had a pc, it was APOD, now on my mbp it just cycles through my photos.
23Mine is set to rotate the nature scenes that come with my macbook ever 5 seconds or so.
24I usually have some funny picture that I've run across while surfing the internet. Right now it's a white rabbit with a huge piece of lettuce it it's mouth. It got the caption "I hath a letuth" (as if the rabbit were talking with it's mouth full - or lol-speak).
25I put my photography pictures up there... and rotate them like if I get a new one I like. At the moment its a beach/lake scene from near my dads house as I'm a tad homesick
26A picture of the space shuttle doing a back flip with earth below it.
27Mine is a photo I took last summer of different colored row-boats stacked next to each other on a beach in a small village near Normandy, France.
28I don't think we're allowed to change our desktop wallpaper at work (it's currently just blue with our company and subsidiaries logos on it) but I have a feeling that if it was actually something pleasant to look at, it would improve my mood at work! Not that I'm not already happy there!
29A row of beautiful, colorful, delicious french Macarons!!! Mmm!
30I have a kitty lying on it's back, looking FLUFFY.
I use desklickr for the mac and it rotates desktops for me from flickr based on tag searches. I have mine set to "fluffy, cat, cute" or something and flip through some desktops whenever I feel like a change.
31My desktop used to be a beautiful scene from the movie 5 Centimeters Per Second (Byousoku 5cm): http://flickr.com/photos/aoitenshi/1808531576/in/set-167286/.
Now though, I'm playing Mario Partners in Time on the DS so my desktop has been Mario-fied, teehee: http://flickr.com/photos/aoitenshi/2415550079/in/set-167286/.
32mine:
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6381/iamnotworthynj4.jpg
33I just changed it to this time lapse lightning shot I found on Lifehacker. I like so many things, nature, cartoons, tv shows... I rotate it every month or so. My mom always has her favorite shot (she likes photographing wild birds) of the week.
34A pile of white Dia de Los Muertos sugar skulls on a white background.
35i love my new wallpaper!thanks for the tip!
36At the moment I have the default blue Mac wallpaper but I often use the photos I take as my desktop wallpaper.
37I like simple and meaningful wallpapers.
38picture of three black pug puppies.
39Right now it's a Daisy by Marc Jacobs wallpaper. I got it from the site, it's perfume bottles. I have a ton of others that I rotate weekly.
40Angelina Jolie. Prettiest face to grace my desktop.
http://wallpaper.skins.be/angelina-jolie/31749/1680x1050/
41I made a wallpaper that has an older vintage look to it. On it has a picture of my dog who recently passed away with a quote and the day of his birth and death.
Before that, though, was a picture on the sun setting at the beach.
42Jacoby Ellsbury. Mmmmm.
43I actually had to double check before I commented here! My desktop background is a big heart drawn in sand. Simple, serene, and sweet.
44I change it a lot, I do the DeviantART thing as well and do some "mechanical" fractal art that I use sometimes for my own machine, or I might use a funny photo.
Lately I have been into galactic/astronomical photos and nature shots, had some really pretty ones of the northern lights recently.
45I currently have this pic of my daughter up.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2769684858_4d38df1666.jpg?v=0
46this is my iMac:
47http://www.imagesforme.com/show.php/144101_hihi.jpg
And this is my MacBook:
http://www.imagesforme.com/show.php/143825_Picture1.png
Mine is this awesome picture I took while in Vail with my boyfriend this summer.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g76/janellethechef/Summer08042.jpg
48My wallpaper is my entire family, taken last Thanksgiving. I love it!. I have 3 sons, their wives, and seven grandchildren. And we are not a bad-looking family. Wish I could show you.
49I tend to have a lot of Doctor Who (with David Tennant, the 10th doctor) related wallpaper that rotates. Mostly, I like the wallpaper from the BBC Doctor Who site best - especially the comics-style ones.
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