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Hamad releases high-resolution Vista wallpapers

February 26th, 2007 by Long Zheng
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Hamad Darwish Windows Vista picturesHamad Darwish, the Flickr photographer commissioned to shoot Windows Vista wallpapers, has been busy over the last few weeks.

He’s appeared on Good Morning Kuwait, a TV show comparable (not in scale, but at least in name) to Good Morning America; Digg (3 times); the Al-Anba newspaper; Kuwait Clientele magazine; Softpedia; Chip.de; the Official Windows Vista magazine and a Chinese magazine for the arts, which they claim to be the biggest in China. Apparently, he has also landed a contract with a photography equipments manufacturer and been commissioned to teach a photography course.

You could say, I started something. But that’s not all.

Hamad has since released as promised, the entire set of photos taken for Windows Vista in high-resolution of 1920×1200 pixels on his personal website. Go grab ‘em!

I’ve picked Destination - vol. II as my new wallpaper. It’s just amazing. :)

Comments for "Hamad releases high-resolution Vista wallpapers"

  1. CoLD-FiRe

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 2:48 am

    I Love wallpaper No. 2.

    Hamad did an amazing job! Bravo!!!

    Also cheers Long for posting this update!

  2. Ely

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 4:04 am

    Thanks a lot for the update; I have been waiting for this amazing walls, thanks to Hamad too for lettting us have this freely.

  3. fracturex

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 4:37 am

    great, I love them. thanks for pointing to the amazing series of images.

  4. tino

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 7:26 am

    Thanks a lot!

  5. Alpesh Nakar

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 11:16 am

    Thanks Long!

  6. Muffy Tyrone

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    And these Vista wallpapers even look ok on XP!

    Thanks Long

  7. Bernard

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    He didn’t release all the wallpapers. For example, the “Imprisoned” picture of the close-up grass leaf with the dew drop is missing.

  8. zzap

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Wow, awesome. Downloaded them all.

  9. ikyouCrow

    Feb 26th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    sweet!
    you think any of the pics from the WOW will make it to wallpapers somewhere? there’s some pretty good work featured. makes you wanna travel…

  10. Alister Cameron, Blog Coach

    Feb 27th, 2007 at 1:24 am

    I’ll be happy just to grab some of these for my XP.

    Haven’t got the guts to upgrade to Vista yet…

    Of course, a Mac is looking tempting too :)

    - Alister

  11. Albatross

    Feb 27th, 2007 at 9:48 am

    I downloaded them and are using them on my Vista laptop (they’re beautiful!) - but the “All Rights Reserved” text turns into a glassed-smudge underneath my start bar :P

  12. Eddie Kisinger

    Feb 27th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Very nice! Thanks so much.

  13. xaml

    Mar 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am

    Either traffic is too high for this site to handle or the file has been removed. I would really like to get those wallpapers, though.

  14. 24

    Mar 5th, 2007 at 1:33 am

    nice, been waiting for this for eternity :) thanks a bunch Long :)

  15. Vista

    Mar 7th, 2007 at 6:32 am

    I am not exactly overjoyed about having “All rights reserved” written on my desktop, thank you very much, not.

  16. Vista

    Mar 7th, 2007 at 6:53 am

    I stand corrected! Downloaded from the link without the silly legal messages.

    Thank you so much. These pictures are breath taking!

  17. Hener

    Mar 18th, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Uhh, amazing wallpapers!!!

  18. wxs

    May 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    It is nice

  19. Mike

    Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

    I wonder how he gets those strange color effects where they “POP” out like that.

  20. TweakVista

    Oct 22nd, 2007 at 12:29 am

    Very Cool

  21. Arthur

    Nov 28th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    These are better than most of the wallpapers that did make it into the Vista suite … they are fantastic

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