Bliss (picture)

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Coordinates: 38 ° 14 '57 "  N , 122 ° 24' 36.4"  W.

Hill in the California wine-growing region of Sonoma County , here in a picture from July 2017. Windows XP uses this hill in an image with a dark blue, cloudy sky and a green summer meadow.

Bliss ( English Wonne, Glück) is an image that serves as the basis for the standard background of the Windows XP desktop (user interface "Luna"). The name of the background image used for the German version of Windows XP is Green Idyl .

Bliss color histogram

Former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear took the picture in January 1996 in the California wine-growing region of Sonoma County near Napa using a Mamiya RZ67 on Fujifilm Velvia . It shows a hill originally used for viticulture, which was covered with grass due to phylloxera infestation. According to O'Rear, the original image, which is used for Windows XP, has not been digitally edited.

It inspired the advertising campaign for the introduction of Windows XP, as the positive, dominant blue and green tones corresponded to the colors of the product.

The artist group Goldin + Senneby took up the now changed motif again ten years later and showed their work After Microsoft for the first time in 2007 in Paris.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is how the wallpaper for Windows XP was created . In: T-Online (t-online.de) . March 24, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Nancy Messieh: Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from? . In: thenextweb.com . August 28, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  3. ↑ goldin + senneby: After Microsoft ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goldinsenneby.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 5, 2007

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