Microsoft - Windows XP Background Photo - The Bliss - an Interview with Charles o'Rear
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Charles O'Rear is the photographer who took the Windows XP wallpaper photo in Napa Valley.
The real story behind the most famous picture in the world.
On the 8th of April 2014, after 12 years, support for Windowx XP ended. The one thing everybody will always remember is it's desktop image 'Bliss', with it's green rolling hills and bluer than blue sky. Doesn't the most viewed picture of all time deserve for a worthy goodbye? We certainly think so!
We started to discuss what we liked and didn’t like, about the 12 year operating system. That discussion led us, as the visual storytellers we are, to speculation about the standard background picture called Bliss. So many questions came up: What does it look like in real life? Who made that iconic image? Where was it taken?
It fired our imagination and within a couple of hours we discovered who made it and where it most likely was taken. But, there was no story about it.
Thats when we decided to take on that challenge: we were going to make the story about the Bliss wallpaper. So, we headed to Napa Valley just north of San Francisco to visit the photographer of the wallpaper, Charles O'Rear.
We never thought this trip would send us on a wild adventure, that would result in our first viral. Over 1.000.000 views within a day! This view count emphasises the fact that an online video doesn’t have to be less than a minute, it just needs a good story!
Thank you Chuck for being so welcoming!
Still can't believe that was a real picture
I know! It looks photoshopped because of how green it is, but if you look at nature photographs on fujifilm, they're really brightly colored.
Me too😂
@@MustacheCashStash125This is why I love film photography
odd i never thought it was fake
So amazing, that 1 hill and that blue cloudy sky will be remembered forever.
5:28 I am sure his theory is right, for people who used xp. I probably won't forget that photo for as long as I live.
I also always thought it was faked. Too beautiful to be real. Since I finally found this photo 100% real, just really saturated because of Fuji Velvia slide, I to this day use it as my wallpaper on Windows 7 PC. Thanks you Charles!
I never grew up with windows xp, I was born too late for it, but I love this image with my whole heart
same
kid
I was born in 2006 in 2012 I used xp in my primary school in India I used to use that pc every time I got the chance now windows has changed windows 11 is not as good as xp was a and I'm moving on to linux and using windows xp theme on linux mint
I cried. What a beautiful photo and story behind it
Photography is just great, capturing a moment in time that will last a lifetime.
Microsoft needs to call this guy for a new wallpaper
When the video ended with the windows logo and the background music I got goosebumps..
Yea i knew the song right away, ive been a fan for a while
ua-cam.com/video/bFhFXUMSOUM/v-deo.html
tony anderson - daughters, great music
i grew up watching my parents get Windows XP, Then Vista, then 7, then 10, and to this day, every time I get a new pc I put that image as the wallpaper.
Why not 8 or 8.1
Because windows eight and 8.1 sucked
@@UseYourBrainPlease. yeah
@@Flexic3D because 8 sucked kekw
That image will be never forgotten.
Thank you sir for sharing this video with me 🤗😇 I still remember when i was in 6th grade in school XP was installed in my PC and this is the only wallpaper i like as of now 😇 Playing Games on my Pentium 4 those memories can never be replaced 😇
Nice story - and nice to know the man behind it seems such a nice chap
There’s something so painfully beautiful and nostalgic about not only this photo, but all of Northern California country side including the central coast. I grew up in the OTHER wine country, Paso Robles, and it’s very very similar environment. bliss encapsulates my childhood, riding in the back seat through the country side on the way home in the spring. It allows everyone to feel what I felt as a child. I am so home sick, Southern California just isn’t the same.
here in the Philippines I was in high school in the early 2000s (I'm 33 now). That time only the privileged can have an assigned computer during computer class in a private school. For me, that computer class signify my parents' hardwork and hope to put me in a prestigious school even we are poor and during computer class is no other like in any high school. That default Bliss wallpaper brings a big deal of nostalgia of my high school days
Its so fucking nostalgic it hurts
Amazing video. Hits me in the nostalgia so freaking hard. Did a Microsoft UA-cam channel have this up at one point and then took it down? I could've sworn I saw it previously on a Microsoft channel. Amazing work!
Apparently, there was a Microsoft Netherlands channel that had it up previously. It was uploaded about fourteen years ago and was reuploaded here more recently.
This is my childhood in kindergarten through 2nd grade and 3rd grade was stilling used but windows xp was starting be replaced by windows 7
Yo same when i was grade 2nd and 3rd i still can't changing xp since there was a longhorn
Trust me this comment, this video, this picture is going onward more famous cause it's the most beautiful moment and picture is absolutely amazing one of the greatest photo ever I have seen I was waiting from my childhood to look up that how actually this image came into existence oh reader from where you are this is our era, just enjoy it, to the moment in which you are. ❤
My dad was a photographer and I absolutely love this video
This video is one of my favourites! I remember seeing it on the Windows Netherlands channel back in the early 2010's, somewhere around 2013-14
As a 23 year old black Canadian who moved here as a baby as a refugee from the Rwandan Genocide, this is one of the most beautiful stories, and an image I will never ever forget ❤️
The best photo Microsoft has ever had
Thank you so much for making our childhood awesome ❤️❤️❤️♥️♥️♥️♥️
The best picture that I will never forget.
What an artist 💯
GREAT VIDDDDD!
The final shot is incredible!!!!!!
I have a 1920x1200 display. It's still tall enough to capture the essence of the photo while in full screen.
8:29 what happened was that Microsoft wanted windows 8 to be all modern and flashy and boxy. Hence why it was so bad
It's a real shame he didn't get a call back
Fantastic story.
what a BLISSful moment
this interview should be shared and viewed more, cz i'm an XP guy, and i know how cool it was sorry it is.
I’m picking my film camera back up late last year. I’m planning on only shoot film.
I wonder what the exact Friday is in January 1996 when this was taken, there is a 25% chance this was taken on my birthday.
Don’t forget this mad lad got married at 60 YEARS OLD
What's the name of that song in the background in this video ?
tony anderson - daughters,
Ultimate blasmephy: watching this on a mac 😂
Sovietsky sonubbbbbb
I'm watching this on a mac too.
mac is too much capitalist product.. U should get linux.
Most famous? That's highly debatable.
He also took the windows xp background of the desert and the moon
What's the name of the background music in this video?
tony anderson - daughters,
2:36 America... of COURSE there's a shooting (not the film shooting, the one in the background)
Team kite man!
مش مصدق يابالحج
he is the CEO of peace
Certainly not in Britain! Smooth road and police patrols?!😂
it is real it in sonoma
Under radeted channel
it is not you who made this video.. I've seen this video since 2014-2015 and it was not your channel. Do not act like it is your work.
Actually, it is our work. We’ve visited Charles back then and made this movie. Microsoft Netherlands used the movie on their channel.
Please also see www.shoottherabbit.nl/nl/video/microsoft-windows-xp/ for some behind the scenes still images.
@@ShoottherabbitThat link gives a 404 not found.