America, it's time for our desktops to CHANGE.

November 5, 2008 9:58 AM

Please help me find a good desktop background image, with which to celebrate the election of Barack Obama as 44th president of the USA. Right now I've got this one up, but Barack's head is all down in the corner and it's hard to appreciate.
posted by bookish to Grab Bag (20 answers total)

Have you looked through the Barack site's offerings?

http://www.barackobama.com/photos/

You can also download the artwork and make your own.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:07 AM on November 5, 2008

Here's a bunch of really good ones. (Keep clicking 'Show more images' at the bottom.)
posted by nitsuj at 10:07 AM on November 5, 2008

Here's one.
posted by lee at 10:08 AM on November 5, 2008

Not anywhere near the right size for a large desktop, but I really love this picture.
(from the big picture blog)
posted by HFSH at 10:16 AM on November 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

The Big Picture set really are wonderful, plenty to choose from.
posted by ceri richard at 10:18 AM on November 5, 2008

Here is where you can find The Big Picture pictures.
posted by Midnight Rambler at 10:41 AM on November 5, 2008

If you're of a nerdy scientific/technological bent, you might try an image from Nanobama.
posted by Johnny Assay at 11:02 AM on November 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm thinking of using this one from the Big Picture.
posted by gleuschk at 11:04 AM on November 5, 2008

Obama: Stuffed with hope.

My desktop is randomized, but this is what's on it right now and for the next 5 minutes or so.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:09 AM on November 5, 2008

This is the entire front page of the Chicago Sun-Times today. I wish the picture online was bigger, but maybe it will do as part of a montage? Looking at it gives me chills. (The good kind...)

Mr. President
posted by SuperSquirrel at 12:12 PM on November 5, 2008

Hey has anyone found a definitive people-around-the-world-celebrating photoset? The ones on huffpo leave me wanting more.
posted by condour75 at 12:24 PM on November 5, 2008

I like this one — it plays with our preconceptions.
posted by Araucaria at 12:39 PM on November 5, 2008 [2 favorites]

I like this one — it plays with our preconceptions.

Oh my God, Obama is a Mormon! Why, why, why did I not hear about this before the election?!?
posted by DarlingBri at 12:59 PM on November 5, 2008

The Huffington Post has some awesome Obama family photos.

Right now my desktop is, simply, this.
posted by greenland at 2:06 PM on November 5, 2008

I love this one. I can't access the tumblr page where it came from.
posted by peep at 2:29 PM on November 5, 2008 [1 favorite]

how's bout this one?
warning: it's very cute
posted by asras at 3:57 PM on November 5, 2008

I liked "that one."

via.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:01 PM on November 5, 2008

I have no idea how to go about finding a still for this specific moment, but the lasting image for me was at the end of Obama's victory speech. As Biden and the candidates' families walked away, Michelle stopped to wait for Barack, who was still out on the stage acknowledging the crowd. Has anyone seen such a photo? (And naturally I think it'd make great wallpaper for the OP.)
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 11:57 PM on November 5, 2008

I like this one.

Also this, with individual frames via Reddit post.
posted by Kupo? at 8:33 AM on November 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

Here's a really good recent one from Obama Pics Daily. It's my desktop.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 3:28 PM on November 6, 2008