Another awesome one. Only problem is: I'm not ready to move "Canal Cottage" off my desktop. And by the way, I left this comment on the last photo but I'll leave it here. It would be great to see your "River Thames" photo on this site. If you haven't submitted it, please consider doing so. If you have, IFL: you guys could do no harm in letting that one through. Thanks.

Love it. I've been loving what has been posted on Interface LIFT for the last few weeks.

As for this wallpaper, I'm speechless. My new wallpaper. It's a nice escape from the winter outside my window. :D

Now and again a really good wallpaper comes along one that depicts beauty and a sense of harmony between the landscape and the lens of the camera ... there is nothing I can fault with this image it gets 10/10 in my opinion.

Sweeeeti! Very majestic!! Thank you very much for letting us enjoy your work! :D

Another beautiful photo from you Joel! This is now in my favorites and on my desktop. Thank you for sharing :)

trout, I'll try to submit it later on hope they accept it! :-)

So Joel, is the French tourism agency gonna pay you something for all the awesome pictures you take? :p My wife keeps seeing these photos and starts bugging me about a trip to France.

Very nice wallpaper men. I love nature wallpapers and you made a good one out of this. On question: Why does it seem that on a lot of wallpapers the water looks so fake? Is it photoshop or didn't it just work out for a lot of wallpapers?

To Haldir: To answer your question, your probably referring to the use of a very slow shutter speed which gives the water a smooth, almost computer graphic look. In addition, Joel Antunes used additional tools (as mentioned in the description) to further perfect the photo giving it an almost "computer graphic" looking perfection. Excellent work by the way Joel, very peaceful looking.

what is with the water? I like it and all, just curious.

The water appears that way because of high tannin levels in France's rivers. It looks startlingly like a photo with slow shutter speed, but it is in fact a natural occurrence.

hello jut some more info about the shot the water achievement was from waking up at 4 am rushing down to the location at a early time and enable me to use a slow shutter speed, shutter speed 6.sec at F22 to archive the water effects, with a ND .6 (soft) to help highlights, thanks

This is so beautifully captured that the shot has become so much more than a still photo. I can actually almost hear the soothing sound of the water and the call of a bird in the trees. C'est fantastique, Joel! I keep using Expos頪ust to clear my desktop and have another look.

Noupette as you said bird i actually saw a very vibrant bird there was blue and i saw it wile i was trying to jump the "mini water falls" yes i had quite a lot of trouble but the bird was very very pretty shame couldn't see it in much detail as it was very fast flying Regards Joel

Lovely picture... just wanted to add it's "Coudray-Salbart" and the ruins of the castle are great to visit. Regards, Maud.

I'm not a fan of low shutter speeds I have to say. I think this would have looked ten times better with 1/2000

I'm sorry but I have to be the one to put a dampers on all of this praise:-(

I'm not a photographer, just a fan of wonderful natural photographs but unfortunately this and many others on this site are not natural looking photographs.

This one could have been absolutely stunning but once again the water has been tampered with to make it look like something out of a cheap video game or one of these awful 'dreamy' birthday cards.

I defy anyone to go anywhere in the world and see water behave in this way so please guys, stop messing with mother nature and let's see these beautiful sights as she intended.