Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: I love this image. It was created by “h16” and is posted on deviantART. The monochrome to vivid-colour transition between the two girls is extremely well done and the hand-painted effect is simply gorgeous. I can’t decide if the girl on the right is holding a “fantasy” lover, or the ghost of a dead friend or relative perhaps? One of the comments on the deviantArt site suggested that this image represents good meeting evil — but I’m not convinced — there seems to be me to be too much passion between the two girls for this to be a meeting of such polar opposites.

Either way, it’s a gorgeous piece of art and makes a fantastic desktop wallpaper.

You can download the full-size wallpaper from the deviantART website. You should also check out the rest of h16’s work.

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: This cool HDR photo of a Mini in an underground parking garage makes a great desktop wallpaper. The vibrant red car really stands out in this grungy urban setting and the camera tilt adds a dynamism that would otherwise be missing. I love how the photographer has positioned the car behind the arrow — suggesting that she’s poised and ready to surge forward.

This photograph, taken by Travel Man, is available in a variety of resolutions on Flickr.

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week:
Helsinki Railway Station. Taken in September, 2006. The railway station is a central landmark of Helsinki and features two sets of these large statues made out of Finnish granite. The blurring on the edges is created by using a Lensbaby lens and isn’t a digital effect.

This photograph, by Steven Miller, is available in a variety of resolutions at InterfaceLIFT.

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: I don’t know what it is that attracts me to them, but I love this kind of shot. The open road, the hint of speed, the light trails. It just makes me want to put pedal to the metal.

This wonderful shot, by Marcus W., is available in a multitude of sizes from InterfaceLIFT. So what are you waiting for? Give your desktop a boost.

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: This week’s desktop wallpaper is this stunning shot by .mushi_king of one of my favourite aeroplanes, the remarkable Lockheed SR-71. The “Blackbird”, as it came to be known, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance platform developed at Lockheed’s famous “Skunk Works”. This amazing aircraft was so fast and flew so high that its standard defence against a missile attack was simply to accelerate!

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: Oh yay, oh yay, oh yay! Gather round all ye citizens o’ the Internet for here be news and the news is this. For the first time in recorded history, your humble scribe has fulfilled his self-given obligation to offer for thine appreciation a desktop wallpaper for thine calculating machine — on time! One week to the day since his previous offering, he presenteth this fine piece of art — captured with that miracle of modern science, the camera — by the artist benisntfunny. The image is entitled “Cold Morning 2″.

You can download the full-size version, without watermark, here (3,000 × 1,875 pixels) — 2.4MB Zip Archive.

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: It’s been so long since I last published an image in this series that the DWotW label has become something of a joke. However, I am going to claim that this adds to the character and mystique of the series. The image presented here is titled Run Away and the photographer is Alex Wallace (at least I can properly credit this one!)

You can download the full-size version here (2,560 × 1,600 pixels) and without watermark (393KB zip archive).

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: Sorry folks for the continuing absence of a weekly installment in this series. I hope I can make it up to you with this beauty — yet another image that I’ve acquired somewhere with no record of the image title or artist. I call it The Girls. Be warned though, your productivity might be considerably reduced if this makes it on to your desktop!

You can download the full-size version here (1,680 × 1,050 pixels) and without watermark (470KB zip archive).

Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: This dynamic image is derived from an original I downloaded at gamewallpapers.com. I had been experimenting with Photoshop to learn how to selectively grayscale an image - which is something I’d been wanting to suss out for some time - and this is the result. I’m pleased with it, but what do you think?

You can download the full-size version here (1,280 × 1,024 pixels).