Some would say "amazing vistas", to be sure.
Hamad Darwish is the photographer who took the pictures used for the backgrounds in Windows Vista.
Not all the snaps made it into Vista.
If you can believe it, the 'rejects' are to the left.
Stunning.
He has now released the entire set of photos he took last year; all are high-resolution, 1920×1200 pixel images and are on his his web site.
Long Zheng intervied Mr. Darwish in "Interview with Hamad Darwish, Flickr photographer shooting Vista wallpapers" and posted "Finding vistas"
See the rest of Mr. Darwish's work at http://www.hamadpictures.com.