27 years ago Windows XP flooded homes and offices around the planet with his image Screensaver: A rolling hill under a blue sky with white clouds. It conveyed peace and tranquility. In fact, this photo is known as ‘Bliss’ and even today thousands of users keep this wallpaper.
The belief has taken root among many people that this is an artificially created image, but this is not the case. This is a real landscape without any retouching, captured in 1996 by National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear.
Weather I was traveling on a California highway (USA) passing a view he thought was worth photographing. It consisted of a gentle undulation covered in dense green grass and a sky full of soothing white clouds. The visual impression was of a pleasant sight that inspired peace.
Also, as the author of the image explains, it was the rainy season and actually The recent rain increased the greenness of the landscape and the cleanliness of the atmosphere.
The Microsoft company saw the image and, impressed by its aesthetics, decided to purchase the rights to ‘Bliss’ for a previously undisclosed figure.
Change produced
But 27 years after achieving global fame, This hill doesn’t look the same anymore. Currently, the monolithic green texture of its surface has disappeared and has become agricultural land. exploited to plant grapes.
And in fact, before that famous photo was taken, these lands were vineyards as they are now, but a year before the plague epidemic, these lands were already vineyards. phylloxeraAttacking the vines destroyed this crop and There were no plants in the field except green grass It looks like grass.
One year after the photo, the land became suitable for agriculture again and the owners replanted the vineyards, restoring them to their former appearance.
This is an indication that the natural landscape is subject to constant change, sometimes due to agricultural, other urban and other industrial reasons. But in this case the seemingly pristine view of the hill This was just a short parenthesis between two periods of agricultural exploitation.
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