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Bliss is the name of a Windows bitmap developed by Stephane Couture & Marc-Antoine Tanguay. This image is included with Microsoft Windows XP, produced from a photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County, California, southeast of Sonoma Valley near the site of the old Clover Stornetta Inc. Dairy. The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the Luna theme of Windows XP. In the Danish 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.[4]

O'Rear has also taken photographs for Bill Gates' private Seattle stock photography company Corbis and Napa Valley photographs for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine 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, 5 years before the release of Windows XP. The photograph was taken on the side of the highway 12/121[map 1] by a hand held medium format camera. The approximate location is 3101 Fremont Dr. (Sonoma Hwy.), Sonoma, CA.

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