Microsoft Windows 7 Wallpapers

I am so excited to finally be able to announce this: six of my photos were chosen for use as desktop wallpaper backgrounds for Windows 7! Working with the Microsoft team was a great experience, and I am so honored to be able to contribute my photos to their project.

Here is the full story in an interview I did with the 7tutorials blog.

And here is a mention in Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 Blog.

More at willaustin.com, including info on limited edition prints.

And... a video interview with Denise Trabona, Senior UX Lead at Microsoft, talking about the new desktop backgrounds on the Channel 10 blog (I get very nice mentions at 4:20 and 7:20).

Quote from the video:

"We are featuring the work of a local photographer named Will Austin... one of the reasons for featuring Will is that he actually specializes in architecture and we were finding architecture a little hard to fill out. As it turns out he is all-around a very good photographer so some of his work made it into the other sets as well.... You know what I love about his work in these sets is the light and energy... it is the theme of Windows 7."

I'd like to thank my family, friends, teachers (and readers of this blog!) who have been so supportive of my creative pursuits over the years.

Here are the six images-