What is the background of blue sky and white clouds brought by WINXP? English name is BLISS?

Although there is no exact statistical data to prove it, we still have reason to believe that this picture is a photo that most people have seen. Yes, it is this picture of blue sky, white clouds and green grass. As the default desktop screen of Windows XP operating system, it appears on almost every computer running Windows XP, and there are at least 800 million such computers in the world. Even if you deduct the "revised" Windows such as jujumao or Tomato Garden, at least 500 million computers use this photo as a desktop. No other photo can cause such a wide spread.

We know that Windows XP was released on 200 1 year1October 25th, but this photo was taken in the winter of 1996. The shooting location was in Sonoma County, northern California, USA. California has a Mediterranean climate with warm and rainy winters, so the grass here is yellow in summer and green only in winter. This photo was taken by professional photographer Charles O 'lear, who took photos for the Napa Valley feature of National Geographic magazine. He was living in Napa County, not far from the shooting location. On the way home by car, he occasionally found such a picture. There are some stratus clouds and high clouds floating in the blue sky, and beautiful rolling hills are below. The mountain is covered with green grass, and a distant mountain is exposed on the right side of the picture. In fact, however, this place is not as perfect as what we see in the photos. A dark curve under the photo is a sidewalk hidden in the grass, and behind the photo is a busy road and an ugly bookstore iron frame. It was on the road that Charles O'Rear stumbled across this landscape, then stopped to take out his medium format camera, walked down the slope of the roadside, and photographed the most admirable scenery in history.

In 200 1 year, Microsoft's Windows development team came across this photo. They bought the copyright of this photo, named it Bliss, which means happiness, and used it as the default desktop of luna theme in Windows XP. Then the Luna theme became the default theme of Windows XP, and this photo became the most appreciated scenery in history.

We mentioned that this photo was taken near Napa County, right? Napa Valley in Napa County is a famous wine producing area in North America, producing the best wine in North America. So when Windows XP was released, the hillside where this photo was taken became a continuous grape trellis. This photo of the hand, which was originally rare, finally lost the opportunity to reappear. If you are interested, you can revisit the old place through Google's Street View service at 38.25638+066438+07285+06438.