Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates holds a Tablet PC in 2002. Enjoy our curated selection of 1 4K Ultra HD Windows XP Wallpapers and Backgrounds. “After 25 years photographing at National Geographic, there will be no mention of Geographic on my tombstone,” he told the publication.ĭespite the ubiquity and fame the image has brought him - he says “not a week goes by that some email comes through about that photograph” - having his legacy tied to the technology company did not buy it his loyalty. Charles O’Rear, his wife Daphne Larkin and their coffee table book “Napa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People” in 2011. When Microsoft discovered O’Rear’s shot, the company paid an unknown but reportedly six-figure sum for rights to it in perpetuity and promptly plastered it across the globe as part of a $1 billion marketing campaign.ĭespite O’Rear’s prolific photography career shooting for the Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star and, for over two decades, National Geographic, he is well aware that his omnipresent image of “Bliss” hill will be what he is remembered for.
Download Original (637.58kB) Download In Different Resolutions. Download Wallpaper In (800圆00) Download (800圆00) Wallpaper. Published on J Original Resolution: 3840x2160 Author : Add Author. O’Rear, 79, uploaded the photo to a stock photo agency. windows-wallpapers, computer-wallpapers, simple-background-wallpapers. I knew that, and it was just the perfect light, the perfect clouds.” “Bliss” hill as it appears today. “Driving through the Sonoma hills in January it always gets a carpet of green grass, it’s beautiful. “A majority of people who saw that photograph, billions of people, thought it was not a real photograph,” said O’Rear. The photo even has an incredible backstory: Charles O’Rear snapped the now-legendary shot of what is known as “Bliss” hill while driving to see his now-wife on a Friday afternoon in January 1996. The editor-in-chief of SFGate recently set out to find the earthly subject of the computer background and discovered it covered in wine grapes, across the street from an alpaca farm and Highway 12 in Sonoma, California. The iconic Windows XP default desktop wallpaper of a sloped green hill beneath a bright blue sky is one of the most viewed photos in the world, but its generic pleasantness has long stumped internet denizens in regards to its real-world location - with some believing it’s not a real photograph.
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