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

"Ideal" green hills and blue sky ... We are of course talking about the standard desktop background Windows XP. Recently in Microsoft ceased official support for this operating system. In this connection, the company posted on its channel in Youtube interview with the author of this photo, which is known to most of us called "Serenity."


Photographer whose work is seen billions of times the name Charles O'Rear. The picture was taken in California, just north of San Francisco in late 1996, several years before the release of the Windows XP. Charles argues that the image is not subjected to digital processing. But it is worth saying that the photos the same place years later look very different, and the way each of you will be able to see the famous valley with the help of Google Maps , specifying the coordinates 38.248966, -122.410269.

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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/220305/