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General => Creative Media => Topic started by: Postal2 on January 21, 2013, 05:57:06 pm

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: Postal2 on January 21, 2013, 05:57:06 pm

World's most viewed photograph by Charles O'Rear

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If you owned a Windows XP computer, then you viewed the image. Called the Bliss, it is the default wallpaper for the Luna theme of Microsoft's XP operating system, which was a big hit for the company. This success of the OS brought the photograph to the living rooms of as many as a billion people.

However, Charles O'Rear, the photographer who clicked the iconic picture, feels that the one-billion-figure is an educated guess rather than a fully-accounted-for statistic. Nevertheless, he does agree that the picture is easily one of the most recognisable across the world.

He says, "All the folks I talk with agree it is the most 'recognisable' photo ever. If it were shown to a villager in rural China, for example, good chance they would recognise it. If it were shown to astronauts on the ISS, good bet they would know it, too. I have seen it appear in photos of the White House situation room, the Kremlin, etc."

O'Rear took the picture five years before Windows XP was rolled out, when he was passing through Napa Valley in California. After he captured the image, he refrained from altering or digitally improving it in any way. Though it is not known how much Microsoft paid for the photograph, O'Rear says that the amount was "extraordinary."

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: Equity on January 22, 2013, 12:06:20 am

Interesting...thanks for sharing

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on January 22, 2013, 08:15:21 am

Microsoft were going to buy a photo I took of Equity's ass for Windows Vista.


But my asking price was too high.

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: Nostargate on January 22, 2013, 08:22:23 am

5 dolla?

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 22, 2013, 09:13:05 am

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5 dolla?

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Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: genienz on January 22, 2013, 09:44:37 am

Amazing that such a simple photo can have such a story behind it.

Title: World's most viewed photograph
Post by: camy205 on January 23, 2013, 09:12:02 am

Interesting article, I wonder how much microsoft paid for it


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