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Monday 22 October 2012

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photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of Sonoma Valley. The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. In the Dutch version of Windows XP, the wallpaper is named Ireland, despite the image being taken in California.
The photograph was taken by professional photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident of St. Helena, Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. According to O'Rear, the photograph was not digitally enhanced or manipulated in any way.
O'Rear has also taken photographs for Bill Gates's private Seattle stock photography company Corbis and Napa Valley photographs for the May 1979 National Geographic article "Napa, Valley of the Vine". Although O'Rear's focus was on photographing winemaking in the Napa Valley, the hill in Bliss didn't have grapevines when the photograph was taken in 1996, five years before the release of Windows XP. The photograph was taken on the side of the highway 12/121 by a hand held medium-format camera. The approximate location is 3101 Fremont Dr. (Sonoma Hwy.), Sonoma, CA. The coordinates for the hill are
O'Rear's photograph inspired Windows XP's $200 million advertising campaign "Yes you can", by the San Francisco division of New York City advertising company McCann-Erickson. The campaign was launched on television on ABC (America) during one of ABC Sports's Monday Night Football games of the 2001 NFL season. The television commercials included Madonna's Ray of Light song, whose TV rights cost Microsoft about $14 million.
In November 2006, artist collaboration Goldin+Senneby visited the site in Sonoma Valley where the Bliss image was taken, re-photographing the same view ten years later. Their work After Microsoft was first shown in the exhibition "Paris was Yesterday" at the gallery La Vitrine in April 2007. and has later been exhibited at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, and 300m3 in Gothenburg.
There are several good sites offering beautiful Desktop Images out there, you can turn your computer screen into a piece of Art! We have selected some of the most important and well-known artist from the Art History, from Leonardo to Van Gogh.
Just take a look at the stunning masterworks displayed below, choose the one you like the most, and select your computer screen resolution, from the classic 1024x768 to the new 1920x1200.
All desktop images are high resolution copies of the original work, with no annoying texts or watermarks.
These images satisfy three criteria:
   1. They are Commons featured pictures or English Wikipedia featured pictures.
   2. They are fairly large
   3. They have an aspect ratio of 4:3 or 5:4They are therefore likely to be good desktop backgrounds (wallpaper).To check aspect ratio, go to the properties of the image, and then divide its height by its width. If the resulting number is 0.75 or 0.8, then it's the ratio we want. Anything between 0.71 and 0.84 is tolerable.

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