Photographer Charles O'Rear was visiting his girlfriend Daphne Irwin in January 1996. Several edits have been produced over the years, as well as shots of green hills inspired by this one. It also appears on a card in cards.dll, where it is cropped to just the clouds. With Bliss being the default wallpaper of Windows XP and the subject of many memes, it is easily the most well known Windows wallpaper of all time, and it has been seen by millions of people all over the world. O'Rear also took XP's well-liked Red moon desert wallpaper, along with Highway Winding Through Countryside, which was used in an MSN Explorer 7 demo. It was taken by Charles O'Rear in January 1996 while visiting his girlfriend.
It depicts a green hill in Sonoma County, California, USA, just after the rain had went off. Rights-managed (no longer commercially available)īliss, originally known as Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Windows XP, fully bought from Corbis by Microsoft for use as XP's main branding image.
