A small story from the author of the most popular photos in the world

“Ideal” green hills and blue sky ... Of course, this is a standard background image of the Windows XP desktop. Recently, Microsoft stopped official support for this operating system. In this connection, the company posted on its channel on Youtube an interview with the author of this photo, which is known to most of us under the name “Serenity”.


A photographer whose work has been noticed billions of times is named Charles O'Rear. The picture was taken in California, just north of San Francisco back in 1996, a few years before the release of Windows XP itself. Charles claims that the image was not digitally processed. But it is worth saying that the photos of that very place look quite different years later, and indeed, each of you will be able to see the famous valley using Google Maps , indicating the coordinates 38.248966, -122.410269.

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