O’Rear said he used to know the landowners, but they sold to a new owner a couple of years ago. The original Windows XP desktop image, known commonly to the tech world as Bliss, was taken in 1996 on a road that cuts through Californias wine country ( the photographer claims the photo wasnt digitally enhanced at all). Sixteen years later, “Bliss” is almost unrecognizable. “So the next week I got a 100 8-by-10s from them saying ‘Please autograph them and send them back.”īut as Microsoft continues to rework Windows, so, too, do the owners of the vineyard.
(KGO) - If youre looking for Bliss, its on private property. Bliss was taken just off Highway 121 in Sonoma County. The clouds were there, the green grass was there and the blue sky.” Windows XP background is photo of Sonoma hillside. Tell us about it.’ I wrote back and said, ‘Sorry, it’s the real deal. Other scenes you can choose from include an animated picture of Microsoft Paint and the serene hill shown in the default wallpaper for Windows XP in 2001. Some of us think it was taken out in eastern Washington in the Palouse area. “I got an email from someone at Microsoft-I suspect it was the engineering department-saying, ‘We have a contest going about that photograph,’” O’Rear said. Find Windows Xp pictures and Windows Xp photos on Desktop Nexus.
And, most likely, “Bliss” will remain his most famous work forever. Free Windows Xp wallpapers and Windows Xp backgrounds for your computer desktop. But “Bliss” remains his most famous work. He shot photos for other stories on advanced materials, as well as a coffee table book on Silicon Valley. It’s his hand, he said, holding a Motorola 68000 chip on the cover of the Oct. He helped pioneer National Geographic’s technology coverage. Discover Location of the Microsoft Windows XP Default Wallpaper in Sonoma, California: The unedited photograph called 'Bliss' has graced the screens of over a billion computers. O’Rear himself has his own, separate technology connections.