Desert

Desert, originally known as Monument Valley, is a sample picture included in Windows 7, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by Ron Chapple, while on Getty Images it is credited to Fuse (likely the brand name of Corbis royalty free photos that were cross-licensed to Getty). It depicts a few buttes at Monument Valley, Colorado Plateau, USA. It is part of a series of images also taken by Chapple in the same region, a few of which are also of buttes.

The version included in early Release Candidate builds is actually at 1280x960, while in the final it is 1024x768 like the rest of the sample pictures.