How do you choose your desktop wallpapers?

[h1r0ll3r]

Whatever suits my mood at the moment. My buying preferences also tend to influence what my wallpapers are. Currently, I have several Call of Duty MW3 wallpapers I'm using now. Once the new iPad comes out, I'll probably have some Apple wallpapers then. As for a default, I tend to use nature/landscape pics. Basically a picture of some place other then where I'm currently at

 

[R94N]

My three main sites are Interfacelift, Wallbase and Simpledesktops.

 

[tktaylor1]

Usually when each sports season comes around I choose my favorite team. That usually lasts for a month or so. Lately I have been choosing simple stuff. My current wallpaper, I got from somebody on here.

 

[Benbikeman]

I rotate about 20 of my own photos, mostly a mix of travel and London shots. Web-res versions of a few of the photos (the desktop versions obviously in 1920x1200 formats):

 

[Thomas Veil]

I change it when I get bored with it. Roughly every other week.

As to what I choose: it can be scenery, it can be an abstract, it can be holiday-related (as it is now). Sometimes it's Apple-related; sometimes it's TV- or movie-related. For me, the overriding criteria is that it not be overly-detailed, particularly on the right edge where my desktop icons reside.