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hello everybody,

i am new to this blogging/threading thing, so please excuse me if i write something rude, etc.. my story: i am looking for places to get married, and i stumbled across a picture that came with my computer back in the year '02. it serves as a desktop background for almost all of window/ pc users. it is the picture labeled "fall". i have been searching everywhere for this exact picture online, but i can't seem to find it. i would like to know where this picture was taken, and who took it? can anybody help me?

desperate here, camster:-5

Cannot help you with the picture but welcome to the Forum.

You might have more joy when the US contingent get up - I'd guess that's where the photo' was taken.

You came to the right place, one of the members here grew up in the same town.The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) March 5, 2007 Compiled Rob Faulkner

Last month, Vanity Fair readers online were entranced by writer Nick Tosches's epic search for the real-world location where the photo was taken for his beloved Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper, Autumn. Tosches's obsession with the fall-dappled laneway led him to e-mail Bill Gates, imagine a cabal of techies protecting Autumn's secret, sift through thousands of photos. He was stumped. Until he heard back from Jane Irwin at the Burlington Historical Society. She wasn't mentioned in a Toronto Star article that The Spec ran about Tosches's quixotic search. But in Tosches's Vanity Fair piece on the search, she's a star.

After twists and turns, Tosches located Milton photographer Peter Burian, who took the Autumn photo familiar to the world's Windows XP users. But Burian forgot where he'd taken the shot. Campbellville? he told the Corbis agency. Kilbride? he tells Tosches. Tosches, undeterred, wrote about 50 people in the Halton area. Inn owners, realtors, librarians, horse farms. No luck. Then Irwin replied to his e-mail, his only local reply. Luckily, the BHS volunteer archivist had a great memory.

"It had been 10 years since I saw that laneway," Irwin says. "But I was out with a committee I was on, looking at historic Burlington properties ... I took a picture of it myself, though not as good as Peter's." Irwin wrote that, with the fence and glimpse of an old grey barn, it's likely a southbound lane near a longtime local family's homestead. (They want to keep their privacy.) Burian investigated, using her directions, and voila! After a year, Vanity Fair finally found serenity, thanks to Irwin's memory of Autumn.

Read more at http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/feat ... tumn200702