Something seems off with the lighting in the second screenshot, like the areas of the rocks which are in shadow are still quite bright. If the undersides were lit up by light reflected by the ocean, you'd expect the light to be tinted blueish or perhaps for there to be
those rippled reflections from the wavy surface.
I've been experimenting with Rainmeter in order to display information on my desktop a little more neatly. For the past few years my wallpaper has been a picture of my college timetable, and I've had several text files of information I don't want to forget in my startup folder. This is fairly messy however, and since it's a pain in the arse to add/remove stuff from my startup folder whenever I want a reminder of something, I've decided to give Rainmeter a go, so this morning I installed it and spent some time on the tutorial pages.
I spent all day making this:
It's my timetable, but it's only visible when I mouse over the black bar on the left of the screen. The Windows 8 aesthetic isn't really intentional, it's just that flat colour rectangles are easy to make.
As well as this, I've spent the last hour or so on a desktop Shoutbox:
I'm not sure yet how I'm going to deal with links, or shouts that are very long. As well as that, at the moment it only shows the 8 oldest shouts, rather than the newest. I suppose I'll fix those problems tomorrow, and I might see if I can get it to play an alert sound if anything is different after it refreshes itself.