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Bing Background Images

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I love the idea of using iconic British images for the Bing homepage. I thought the current one was particularly evocative.

Hedgehog

That said, I currently have this beautiful image as my Win7 desktop background (in focus and without the text :-)). It was the winner of last month’s Microsoft UK photography competition and it’s absolutely stunning IMHO. It was taken by David Weeks.

Rabbit

In fact things Bing have moved on and today we have this image on the homepage for the UK.

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Which brings me to my one ask for Bing (UK). I have no idea where this place is but I’d love to know. How about some information on the image itself? Where it was taken, when, by whom etc etc. That would be really interesting.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2009
    Hi Mike, That first pic I would think is Australian, an Echidna.

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 23, 2009
    The last image is of the Sanqingshan Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province. The air there is so sweet and clear you lamost feel you can get drunk on it.

  • Anonymous
    June 23, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 23, 2009
    Hi Mike, If you hover over the copyright water mark in the bottom right hand corner of the image, the location is displayed as a tooltip. Enjoy, Samad

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2009
    Thanks Samad. That does work for the current image but wasn't working when I posted. Probably just a glitch. I see the US backgrounds have extra info embedded which is nice. Mike

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2009
    Mike, If you right-click the image and click Save Background, the image name starts off with the location name. Rory.

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2009
    Babylon Masheads and Rory Donnelly are right on - the filename typically reveals the information you need to find out more. I actually just wrote a blog post outlining how to do this. I provide steps for the four major browsers too: http://tinyurl.com/ofc443 By the way, check out the United States version of Bing. While it doesn't have the same image, it is much more informative - you can hover over the background image for more info. Why can't others have those features as well?

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2009
    hello, culd you please tell me if i can get the bing backgrounds for my desktop???? if i can could you also please tell me how!!!! Thanks a lot, Zoey

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2009
    hello, culd you please tell me if i can get the bing backgrounds for my desktop???? if i can could you also please tell me how!!!! Thanks a lot, Zoey

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    You can get the images from : http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/ Soub