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这个不起眼的小山丘，位在与美国加州著名的酒乡那帕（Napa）仅一山之隔的索诺马（Sonoma）。像周围大部份的土地一样，这个小山丘如今也是爬满了葡萄藤，但在上世纪 90 年代初期这地方曾经因为受到一种吃葡萄藤的害虫（Phylloxera bug）感染，因此不得不把所有的葡萄藤拔掉，让土地休耕了数年。
这个小山丘位在 12/121 公路旁（同一条公路两个名字），是摄影师 Charles O'Rear 每天回家必经之路。在一个一月的早晨，地面上的青草刚经过了一个月雨水的的浇灌而显得娇翠欲滴，刚放晴的天空还有几片不规则的积云。这个景像和摄影师的本能，让 Charles 不顾公路上繁忙的交通，直接停在路边掏出他的中幅相机，拍下一张数千万乃至数亿人都见过的照片。猜出是哪一张了吗 :)
谁也会老去，感谢一路有你
蓝天白云自 Windows 95 以来就是 Windows 的主轴，绿色的草地和 Windows 的预设主题则分外搭配，同时占去了半个画面的「地面」让人有一种想要穿过屏幕，在草地上打滚的感觉。
可惜这个影像只有在 Windows 里才看得到了。当微软从 Charles 手中买下照片时，小山丘上已经种回了葡萄，许多按图索骥，寻找这梦幻美景的人，也只能找到上图那种满了葡萄的小山丘。
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不禁感叹前几天宿舍同学买了SONY最新的一款定制本，费了一整天的时间折腾系统，从win7的32位旗舰到XP再到win7的64位旗舰，可算把我折腾的够呛，改了，SONY本子难伺候看来不是浪得虚名。。。
下面这些是关于Bliss来历的一些介绍还有一些乱七八糟的东西，难道和广告有关？
Bliss is the name of a BMP image 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 and Babe's Burgers and Franks. It is so named because it contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme, which is included with Microsoft Windows XP.
The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident of St. Helena, Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. 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 NapaValley, the hill in Bliss didn't have grapevines when the photographwas being taken in the late 1990s. The photograph was taken aside the highway 12/121, and by a hand held view camera. The approximate location is 3028 Fremont Dr. （Sonoma Hwy.）， Sonoma, CA.
O'Rear's photograph inspired Windows XP's US$ 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 TV on ABC during one of ABC Sports's Monday Night Football. The TV commercials included Madonna's Ray of Light song, whose TV rights cost Microsoft about $14 million.
In November 2006, artist collaboration Goldin+Sennebyvisited the site in Sonoma Valley where the Bliss image was taken,re-photographing the same view ten years later. Their workAfterMicrosoft was first shown in the exhibition “Paris was Yesterday” at gallery La Vitrine in April 2007 and has later been exhibited at Galeria Vermelho, S?o Paulo , and 300m3 in Gothenburg.
In February 2007, in the collective exhibition Accrochage Vaud 2007 at Espace Arlaud in Lausanne, Sébastien Mettraux, a Swiss artist showed a photograph titled “Colline verdoyante”, d'après Bill Gates, 2006, translated as “Bliss, after Bill Gates, 2006”. Mettraux, who lives and works near the Vallée de Joux, explained that it was taken in Les Esserts-de-Rives, Switzerland.