I’m a frequent visitor of MacDesktops.com, and I’m getting tired of boring, bird’s-eye photos of leaves on the ground.  It’s been done a hundred times over and every single one looks alike—obviously.  The cliché is hardly limited to MacDesktops; every wallpaper posting site has a handful of leaves photos.  Furthermore, didn’t a now-ancient iteration of the Mac OS – System 7.5? – include a desktop picture of leaves on the ground?

A few other annoying trends:
• Close-up photography of flowers
• Unremarkable skies
• Fields of flowers
• Sloppy or pointless nature photos
• Pictures of a window (or windows) in the middle of a bare wall (what’s up with these, anyways?)
• Pictures like this (seriously, what’s the point?)

On second thought…  I confess.  The photos of windows bother me more than the leaves on the ground.  It’s always a plain wall – stone, wood, or what have you – and a window smack dab in the middle.  Sometimes the window is purposefully off-center, I admit, for that extra touch of artiness.  Either way, I’ve seen more than a number of these.  But why?