"Right as covid was starting, we made sure we took down anything that talked about explicitly travelling," said Matt Hepler, Microsoft's director of product marketing. So, whether you've noticed or not, they have been adapting their words and visuals alike.
It's part of 2020's odd, new reality, and the people choosing those screen images recognise it. And with travel still restricted, staring at that rolling green hill on your computer, or that mountain-nestled Austrian village on your TV, is as close to seeing the world as most of us will get. It's just something that we lived with."Īs "Bliss" nears the 20-year anniversary of its burst to fame, trapped remote workers are living with their screen images perhaps more than ever. "It's got to be over a billion people who have seen it," O'Rear, now retired and living in North Carolina, said on a recent phone call. It is now, by a number of outlets' guesstimates, the most-viewed photograph of all time. That "OK picture" went on to be acquired by Microsoft, named "Bliss" and beamed onto millions of computer screens in 2001, as the default background image for Windows XP. That's an OK picture," he remembers thinking.
"We just never know," he and his business partner figured, and so O'Rear's camera went with him.Īt some point on that trip in January 1996, O'Rear was struck by the scene of a rolling green hill and stopped the car. Photo: Charles O'Rear/MicrosoftĬhuck O'Rear was driving through California wine country to visit his girlfriend, as he did every Friday, and scanning for possible pictures for his stock-photo service, as always. Look familiar? Charles O'Rear's Californian hillside was beamed onto millions of computer screens in 2001.
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