February 23, 2007

The Elusive Autumn - Tracing a Photo Back to Its Place

Elusive Autumn Windows Desktop Photo


Nick Tosches lyrically writes about tracking down the the mysterious origins of the Windows desktop image: Autumn. This is a mystery with a Canadian twist for all my Canuck readers. (Vanity Fair, February 19, 2007 issue)

I discovered this site thanks to Eszter who included this link on her blog.

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Comments:
As the photographer who took the Autumn photo (used in Windows XP) I'm surprised that this has become such a big deal.

Two newspapers have also run articles about it, and a TV station (Global in Ontario) ran a story about it as well.

http://www.thestar.com:80/article/184493

http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/pdfs/20070223/A2.pdf

In any event, I have had my "15 minutes of fame" and it was fun.

Peter Burian
www.peterkburian.com
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:31 AM
 
What a great story--particularly for someone like me, who uses Autumn as the background both at home and at work (at home, it's simply spectacular on a 19" Sony LCD). Now I know where it came from. Thanks!
# posted by Blogger waltc : 11:11 AM
 
Peter - thanks for the links to the other articles.

I think part of what makes this story so special was the journey by the writer to discover who took the photograph and the desire to stand/be in that same spot. I think at some level everyone can relate to seeing a particular photo and wanting to be there at that same moment.

Darlene
# posted by Blogger Fichter : 12:06 AM
 
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