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Meet Charles O'Rear, the man who shot the Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper

With Microsoft bidding goodbye to Windows XP today, mid-day spoke to Charles O’Rear, who captured the landscape of Napa Valley that every PC user is familiar with

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Windows XP wallpaper

Windows XP wallpaper

Ask any computer user today and s/he would instantly recognise the green hills, blue skies and the fluffy white clouds — the default wallpaper in Windows XP, Microsoft’s operating system (OS). But not many know that the wallpaper, called ‘Bliss’, is not a digital creation; it’s an actual photograph of the wine region of Napa Valley, USA.

73-year-old Charles O’Rear, the photographer of the picture says, “There was absolutely no Photoshop or any editing involved. I live 60 miles north of San Francisco in a wine region of Napa Valley. I took the photograph in an area called Carneros.”

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