Computer wallpaper scenery where is the scenery here?

Windows XP's iconic desktop wallpaper is really discerning! The background of this desktop wallpaper representing a generation does exist, but after many years, this beautiful scenery is quite different from the past.

Ten years ago, you and I both used Windows XP computers. As soon as we turned on the light, the green lawn came into view. Many people haven't even changed their desktop wallpaper, which shows that they have been with this beautiful scenery for a long time.

Some people may think, is the background of this photo true? Or the result of computer drawing? After all, this beautiful scene is so perfect that both light and shadow and clouds in the sky are very synthetic.

The classic background comes from the photographer.

The default desktop wallpaper of Windows XP is called Bliss, which means "Bliss" in Chinese. If you search for "Blissful Wallpaper" on Google (or Bing, 360 search), you can see many related pictures. PS: Baidu search results don't have so many similar pictures.

▲ As long as you search bliss wallpaper on Google, you can find many related pictures.

In fact, this desktop wallpaper was shot in the real natural landscape, and its origin is quite romantic. It was taken by the photographer on his way to meet his girlfriend.

The photographer's name is Charles O 'lear. This is the photo he took at 1996. When he saw this beautiful scene on his way to meet his girlfriend, he couldn't help but take out his camera and take it down. This has become a Windows desktop wallpaper that you and I are familiar with now.

▲Charles O'Rear, photographer of Windows XP classic desktop wallpaper.

You must be curious to see this. Where is this photo, right? Well, it's in Sonoma County, Northern California, the hometown of wine. The actual coordinates are 38.250 124 degrees north latitude and 122.44438+00 17 degrees west longitude. The girlfriend who was going to meet at that time later became his wife.

Later, he sent this photo to Corbis, a gallery company founded by Bill Gates at 1989. Bill Gates liked this photo very much after seeing it, and bought it before 200 1 Microsoft was about to go public on Windows XP.

Although the price of the photo cannot be made public because of the confidentiality agreement, it is reported that the price of this "Blissful" photo is second only to the photo of Clinton hugging Lewinsky, which is also an astronomical figure.

Ten years later, the scenery changed.

165438+2006 10, the artists' union "Goldin+Senneby" visited the Sonoma Valley in the photos of Blissful, and took a new photo from the same angle at that time, named after Microsoft.

▲ The same place is already a different scenery (photo: Goldin+Senneby)

It's just that the scenery has changed. At that time, the green grassland was no longer visible, and it was replaced by a scene rich in grapes.

Interestingly, in the same year, Swiss artist Sébastien Mettraux took a very similar photo in Switzerland and named it Bliss (After Bill Gates, 2006).

▲ The work by Swiss artist Sébastien Mettraux in Switzerland is called Blissful, After Bill Gates, in 2006 (photo: SébastienMettraux).

20 10 Tony Immoos, a photographer living in Sonoma, released a photo, saying that Golding+Snoopy had taken a wrong photo in 2006.

▲ Photographer Tony Immoos said that the angle of the photo in 2006 was wrong, and the photo he took named "2 1ST century bliss" was the right angle. (Photo: Tony Imosh)

Now many people have updated to Windows 10, and the default desktop wallpaper is no longer Elysium. Even a new generation of children who have never used Windows XP may not recognize this photo at all. But anyway, this is the memory of the same generation!

Source: Wei Min Information.