Bliss is the name of the default computer wallpaper of Windows XP, produced from a photograph of a landscape in Los Carneros AVA, Sonoma County, California, United States. The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. In the Dutch and Portuguese versions of Windows XP, the wallpaper is named Ireland and Alentejo, respectively, despite the fact that the image was taken in the United States.
The photograph was made on June 24, 1996, for the digital-design company HighTurn by Charles O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, California. According to O'Rear, the image was not digitally enhanced or manipulated in any way. The image was captured from the side of the highway 12/121 with a Mamiya RZ67. The approximate location is 3101 Fremont Drive (Sonoma Highway),Sonoma, California. The coordinates for the hill are 38°15'00.50"N 122°24'39.00"W. Although O'Rear's focus when he made the photograph was on the subject of wine making in the Napa Valley, the hill did not have grapevines at the time. Vines were subsequently planted on the site.
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