O’Rear was one of the first photographers to use a service called Corbis to digitise and licence his photos. The company had designed the new operating system with the stability of its corporate OS, Windows 2000, and the consumer features of Windows 98 and Windows ME. Microsoft was about to launch Windows XP. “And the rest is history.”įast-forward to the year 2000. “I got out, took a couple of pictures, and kept on going,” he told PCWorld in an interview on Monday. And in 1998, when O’Rear took his famous “Bliss” photo, all he could see was an emerald-green hill, a ridge behind it, and a few puffy clouds. At the bottom of a steep embankment is a barbed-wire fence. That stretch of Highway 12 is narrow and windy, with only a slender shoulder for stopping one’s car. O’Rear, a 25-year veteran of National Geographic, drove down the road, then pulled over. In January, as most California natives know, the rains come, and the hills explode into green for a few months before the withering summer heat browns them once again. His mission was to meet Daphne, the woman who eventually became his wife. In 1998, photographer Charles “Chuck” O’Rear was driving from Sonoma County through Napa on his way to Marin County. Credit: PCWorld Windows XP desktop, with the “Bliss” image in the background
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