Bliss (image)

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Bliss (English bliss, happiness ) is the name of the image that serves as the basis for the default background of Windows XP desktops ( user interface "Luna" ). The description used in the German version of Windows XP, the background image is green idyll.

The professional photographer Charles O'Rear took the picture in 1996 in California's wine country of Sonoma County near Napa. It shows an originally used for wine growing hills, was covered because of a plant disease with grass. The original image, which is used for Windows XP was changed according O'Rear in any way. It inspired the advertising campaign for the launch of Windows XP, since the positive connotations, dominant blue and green tones corresponded to the color of the product.

The group of artists Goldin Senneby took 10 years later, the now modified design again and showed her work after Microsoft first time in 2007 in Paris.