The origin of 'Autumn'

Every release of Windows comes with a stock of desktop wallpaper art. Usualy photographs of beautiful landscapes.

The latest Windows release Vista comes with a photo of a sand dune with small bushes and grass on it which I like very much and have currently installed as my active desktop wallpaper.

Have you ever wondered where these photographs where taken? If you knew, would you visit the place you look at on your computer screen every day? As it turns out there are people who can get quite obsessive about it.

Take the photo of the Windows XP desktop wallpaper named 'Serenity' (shown here). Someone by the name of Nick Tosches actually wrote an entertaining article about his obsession for this particular photo and how he tried to find the man responsible for it and the place it was shot.