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An interesting article, in which the author recounts his borderline obsessive hunt for the location and photographer of the Windows desktop wallpaper photo "Autumn." Autumn and the Plot against Me. [From VanityFair.com]

It is almost hard to believe that this photo is of a real place. Like all the Windows desktop wallpapers, it has a pervasive sense of fakeness. The leafy lane, the island with the palm tree, the green hill and too-blue sky: simulacra.