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An Accidental Background Image

Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007, at 08:31PM by Eric Richardson

Plant Eric Richardson [Flickr]

I was messing around with my camera before I left the office Friday and took this shot of a plant. I didn't have any purpose for it at the time, but after looking at it in the computer later I decided it would make a nice background image. A little Photoshop resizing and cropping later and there it was gracing the screen of my laptop.

I used to be all over desktop wallpaper. If you look back at old screenshots of mine you see all kinds of fanciful imagery. But somehow that changed. The desktop on my computer at work is still the Apple default, as was my laptop's until just today.

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Eric Richardson lives in Los Angeles, California, and is generally interested in the intersection between technology, community and news.

He started blogdowntown, an online news site for Downtown Los Angeles, and today works in digital media for Southern California Public Radio.

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