If you're anything like me, you like to change your wallpaper often. Below are what I consider the best HDR wallpapers in Flickr. To see the wallpaper version, click on the title, and then click "View All Sizes."

Stiftsruine Lippstadt #2

Very First HDR

Mt. Tolmie stairs, HDR and color rotated

sunset at werder

live beside the church

heaven knows what I want

friendly tractor

somewhere in oderberg

castle rheinsberg

kloster Lehnin #2

by the water

Amtsgericht Wedding

evening scenery at werder

stairway to the water

main castle babelsberg

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If you forgot what I'm doing here, here's a quick reminder. I search Google Trends once a week, and I take the #1 searched term, add it to the Flickr Creative Commons search, and post the top pictures for that phrase. Seemed like a dumb idea when I started, but people seem to love it, so here we go again.

Today's most popular search term is CC sabathia. Here are the pics that came up in Flickr:

1. CC Cy Young

2. Cleveland Indians in Detroit - CC Sabathia

3. cc sabathia

4. cc sabathia 2

5. CC Action

6. Fightin' Phils

7. Sawks

So last month, I had this idea of doing a weekly post featuring photos from Flickr using a popular keyword search. The result was Friday Flickr Tag Fun: 9 “Alaska” Photos. The post did better than I expected, but I forgot all about the idea by the next Friday. Tonight, it hit me like a brick, so I'm going to give it another shot. Here's how it works - each week, I'll check Google Trends for the most popular search, and I'll put that/those keywords into Flickr (Creative Commons), and post the results.

Tonight's most popular search term is Brad Pitt Tattoos. Umm....ok. From what I can gather, Brad Pitt was on Oprah today, and was uncomfortably confronted by a fan. If you want to find out more, just do the search. Here are the pics that came up in Flickr:

1. Brad and Shiloh Pitt

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From ReadWriteWeb:

When browsing through websites we see hundreds of images a day that we think are cool. Some of us may download these images to our desktop. Others may bookmark them in their browser or add them to their Flickr account. However, as the web changes and we look for more useful ways to manage our interests, services are popping up that manage our interests for us. Here's a look at 3 neat sites to save images to and share with friends.

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One of the coolest features of the iPhone 2.0 software is the ability to save images from the web to your photos. Didn't realize you could? Just press and hold your finger on one of the following images, and you'll be given the option to save the photo. These wallpapers are from the iPhone Wallpapers group on Flickr, and are formatted to perfectly fit your iPhone.

Nature

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How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor?

Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules.

I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography.

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From the Site:

Web designers and graphic designers are always looking for new sources of design inspiration. Of course, many of us turn to CSS galleries, and there are even more sources of offline inspiration. Personally, I find the work in many Flickr groups to be another excellent source of inspiration. Aside from the billions of photos on Flickr, there are also some groups that have been established to showcase the work of designers. Here is a look at 99 of them according to category (about half of them are general graphic design groups). Below the link to each group you’ll see the number of members and the number of items (pictures, graphics, screenshots, etc.) that have been submitted to the group, plus I have included part of the group description as listed by the moderator.

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