number 19 (Av Clara Lidström) and 52 (Unknown) were taken on the same street, from the same point of view, with the same snowflakes falling… I’d bet 52 is original and 19 photoshopped :)

Sweet 404.

Veryy nice list, think i may have a new background

oh my god i cold :)))

what is that white powder everywhere?

#1 e_anka is right. 52 by Unknown is just flipped horizontally & changed a little bit. I think it shouldn’t be on the list ;-)

photoshopped.

More web development - usability - page layout - etc.stuff. I click ads.

Great set!

what’s wrong with using photoshop? is part of digital photography, get over it, people.

4, 6 and 18 aren’t ’special’ enough in my opinion. All the others make want to ride sleighs, drink hot choco and take long walks through open snowy countrysides :-)

i like *joffo 1 ;)

Can’t help but laugh at the phallic icicles of #4.

As always, very nice collection. But don’t you guys think it’s time to find another word other than ‘Beautiful’? No? Just going to keep using that word for every post? Ok, thats cool… way to be.

A few of them are IR photos and not truly ‘winter’ but very nice nonetheless!

really excellent and amazing images. very nice…….

Feeling Chill :-)
Good Collection

nice post.. i like these photo…………

thanks
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Winter is beautiful !

isnt the 1st unknown one a xp default image? ^^

Feeling Chill & nice

Fantastique, un peu de rêve pour commencer la semaine, cool !!!

The photo of Eleanor Rigby is an IR shot. The rest not.

I needed cheering up, so thanks. They are stunning!

Thank you for showing one of my photos here :) Really beautiful collection.

Sesjusz’s one is infrared too. I think is part infrared (trees) and part not (street, field and grass). ;-)

May I correct that the link to anders r. naesset’s photo Link [pheelfresh.deviantart.com] is Link [pheelfresh.deviantart.com]

Sesjusz’s one is infrared too.
No it’s not…
Nice collection! Brrr…

Wow, these are truly stunning images! These are getting me in the mood for Christmas already. I’m spoiled for choice as to which I’d like for my desktop ;)

An inspiration to get my DSLR camera out again…
Link [www.richescreative.co.uk]

Very Nice Photos!! I’ s Christmas Time!!

Excellent pics!!! Very nice collection ….smashing rocks…

so cold… nice pics.. breathtaking views in some of them!

Hey guys… where are the Images !? i have to click on then to see it? my God!… let’s use pictures like it was before.. about the set.. nice ;)
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Damn thats some nice image.. will use some as wallpaper here.
thanks

Link [www.microdesign.nl]

I have said this before…
Most color pictures just seem to punch you in the face with a contrast festival.
Black and white are much better.
Question: Is contrast becoming a standard to make pictures stand out ?

“Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers”

How exactly are photos useful and innovative information for web designers? I appreciate a good photo as much as anyone else, but I have actual photography sites I visit when I want to look at those.

Maybe Smashing should open up SmashingPhotographs.com. Top 50 photos alongside jQuery scripting just doesn’t make sense.

Amazing photos, an inspiration to dig out the DSLR. Not as many IR photos as I thought there would be.

@jon
Did you never heard of inspiration or using bits for illustration?

Diversity is key! Keep up the good work!

Very beautiful photos!

#6 leszek - in my opinion 52 by unknown is original, and 19 is flipped and photoshopped. You can see it in the details ( darker, more blurred, less detail, blurred wall on the right side of the photo - where on 52 is some broken branch of the tree or vine, removed horizontal bars from lanterns, removed the girl with umbrella - but still part of umbrella shadow can be seen on the right side of the photo :)
I don’t mind using photoshop to postprocess my photos. I do mind using photoshop to take someone else’s photo, change it and display as my own, without crediting photo’s author.

Yes! It does make country proud, home very so. I like!

19 is def. photoshopped. Drag both images off and open in photoshop and they align perfectly.

Thanks for sharing! I should change my background for the Christmas coming…Link [www.xmas9.com][http://www.xmas9.com]

I missed this nice one in the list: Link [www.flickr.com]

Nice pictures but I find them more frustrating than anything else - why are they all such low resolution? Monitors get bigger all the time.

I am in need of beautiful wallpapers at least 3360 x 1080, thus I wont be keeping an eye on any of the artists mentioned here :(

To those whining that this isn’t webdevelopmentstuff …

” i n s p i r a t i o n ” ;p

And besides , I believe every self respecting web designer should be abled to take decent pictures as any self respecting web designer wouldn’t dare use pictures he didn’t make by himself :p

Just the right time to post something like this…. ;-)
I love the “Last click” though it seems so unreal!

great photos, like always! but i only see one person in ski in a photo. around here everyone skis and snowboards, we should see more of those sometime =D

Here’s my version: Link [www.flickr.com]

I love this picture of an Link [interfacelift.com]. It’s my wallpaper since several months.

Lolz… #30 is definetly one of the default Windows XP wallpapers. (‘Winter.jpg’ to be exact)

Great list, Andrew. I have a feeling you’re not responsible for image #29…which is one of the four ’sample’ images that comes with the Windows XP operating system. You could always change the credits for that one from ‘Unknown’ to ‘Capt. Gates and the Winter Force’…. :-)

You are losing your niche, don’t try to be something that you’re not.

Truly amazing pics, Do you sell callanders!?.

Amazing Photos!

What ever drugs you take when you go searching for the resources you present here please give me some :D This is hot chilling stuff :D Awesome work guys (and of course girls).

“what’s wrong with using photoshop? is part of digital photography, get over it, people.”
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Nothing wrong with using Photoshop, Mona…if you’re tweaking an original image. But taking someone else’s image and passing it off as your own is lame. But, I reckon you liked the cartoony “HDR” images also. More lameness.

“The Children” reminded me so much of this album cover!

I was hoping for an ice-climber!

good

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Excellent pics!!! Very nice collection.smashing rocks.
very good

Wonderful images..so cold.. :)

BEAUTIFUL!!! AMAZING!!!
I live in South America (Brazil) and I have never seen snow.

I love this photography.

Desarae
Link [www.dveit.com]

LOved the photos. thank you

wonderfull !!!

Thank U very much for yor interesting images.

Great selection :DD! Some of them are so beautiful i could cry ;}..

very good tank .

this is my God powre:)))

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

chala bagundi ….

Some of those snow laden tree shots look like infrared photos! Very cool.

WW
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hey,the photos are amazing!! sorry for language,I’m italian…..
ok…..bye!!

ene yu ve

Amazing! Fantastic.

Amassing, beautiful and lovely…. i want to be there in all of those pics.

Cant think that nature could be so pure and innocent.

woooooooooow
I wish I were there

these pics are great and butiful
(:

Breath taking……….
Want to close my eyes for a second and reopen them & be surounded by these paradise nature…….xxx

nice pics XD

Hi hi hi hi

OH MY GOSH those are the most MAGNIFICENT photos i have ever seen