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Get to know the guy who took Windows XP’s green hill wallpaper photo – The A.V. Club
SFGATE spoke to Charles O’Rear, the photographer responsible for taking the picture that would go on to become Windows XP’s default wallpaper.
Some photographs are so ubiquitous that its hard to imagine they were taken by a regular, boring old human being before being used in product designs or advertising campaigns so huge that theyre impossible to avoid. One of these photos is the default background for Windows XPa picture of a lush green hill and pleasant blue sky taken on what looks like a pleasant summer day. As it turns out, this picture (titled Bliss) was taken by a normal guy who just happened to think a pretty hill in Sonama,…
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