The horizon is wide with bright green grass and a blue sky overhead. Somewhere again the blue color is covered with white cotton clouds. Doesn't the picture look very familiar? This is the default wallpaper for Windows XP. This image floats on the screen as soon as the computer is turned on. This is probably the most viewed picture. But do you know exactly where this picture is? How did the image become the default wallpaper for Windows XP?
The events of 1996. Charles, a photographer for National Geographic, was traveling from Sonomo, California, to San Francisco to meet his girlfriend. Charles was driving himself. Charles had driven on this road many times before. But his eyes got stuck in a place next to Highway 121. Then winter. It had been raining for some time before Charles arrived. Water droplets have accumulated on the green grass. And the clouds are moving around like cotton in the sky when the sun is shining. Charles was captured on a medium camera with that form of nature.
In 1997, Charles uploaded a stock photo to the website, Corbis, without any cuts to the image. Later that picture came to the notice of Bill Gates. Bill contacted Charles in 2000 and bought the film.
Everyone knows what happened after that. This image has become the wallpaper of billions of computers that have Windows XP installed in 2001.
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