Charles O'Rear's well-known photograph Bliss used as a standard wallpaper for many Windows XP desktops.

Charles O'Rear is an American photographer best known for his photos of wine country and the image Bliss that was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP. Bliss is a JPEG photograph of a landscape in the Napa Valley outside Napa, California, with rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. ... Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Bliss is a JPEG photograph of a landscape in the Napa Valley outside Napa, California, with rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. ... Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...

O’Rear photographed for National Geographic Magazine for more than 25 years. He began his focus on winemaking in 1978 as an assignment to photograph the Napa Valley. Afterwards, he moved to Napa Valley and began photographing wine production around the world.^[1] To date, O’Rear has provided photographs for seven wine books. The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Napa County is in north-central California Napa Valley is most famous for its wine. ...

O'Rear's photograph of the rolling hills of Napa Valley, titled Bliss, was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP and as part of the Microsoft Corporation US$200 million advertising campaign, Yes you can. The image is also available as one of the many image options on Capital One credit cards, and has been subject to many parodies. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). ... Capital One Financial Corp. ... A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. ...

Photo books

• Chardonnay: Photographs from Around the World by Charles O'Rear and Michael Creedman (1999)
• Wine Country by John Doerper, Charles O'Rear (Compass American Guides)
• Cabernet: A Photographic Journey from Vine to Wine by Michael Creedman and Charles O'Rear, Foreword by Robert Mondavi
• Wine Places: The Land, the Wine, the People by David Furer and Charles O'Rear

Robert Gerald Mondavi (born June 18, 1913 in Virginia, Minnesota, United States) is a leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. ...

References

1. ^ Biography, Charles O'Rear. wineviews.com. Retrieved on 27-12-2006.