The famous XP wallpaper

[Detection]

My brother just sent me this, I think MS should include the lower image in a windows update to replace the original wallpaper as a hint to any remaining XP users :p

[Mystic Mungis]

Uhhhh not sure if thats true or not but I always thought it was CGI :p

[Praetor]

Uhhhh not sure if thats true or not but I always thought it was CGI :p

i remember in the days that it was a photograph taken in US.

[tsupersonic]

Uhhhh not sure if thats true or not but I always thought it was CGI :p

Nope, it's an actual picture. Here's the wiki article

[neufuse Veteran]

It's a real photo, but it's not all dead, its a vinyard and the leaves have turned brown, they just took the picture at the height of the leave color then over color corrected it and over saturated the colors...

[Mystic Mungis]

I've been living a lie :o

[Detection]

Is this the correct map view ?

https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=38%C2%B014%2758.06%22N+122%C2%B024%2735.51%22W&sll=38.247887,-122.381516&sspn=0.135082,0.302811&ie=UTF8&ll=38.250027,-122.409861&spn=0.008442,0.018926&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=38.249455,-122.409853&panoid=dK2b9kil9WcekzoE-cosmg&cbp=12,311.16245324453985,,0,4.291071765431019

[hamslammer]

Is this the correct map view ?

https://maps.google....291071765431019

Yes, that is in the same general neighborhood, slightly different location and angle. If you go to the page and paste in this "38.250124,-122.410817" without the quotations in the search bar, the address on the photo, it will give you a slightly better angle of the spot. I had to do a 180 and zoom in a little to get into a pretty good position as in the original photo..

[Detection]

Yes, that is in the same general neighborhood, slightly different location and angle. If you go to the page and paste in this "38.250124,-122.410817" without the quotations in the search bar, the address on the photo, it will give you a slightly better angle of the spot. I had to do a 180 and zoom in a little to get into a pretty good position as in the original photo..

Strange I tried entering that into maps earlier and it couldn't find it

Works now cheers :)

[ozgeek]

It had been my default wallpaper for years (like many others) and really thought it was a photoshop designed picture. around 2009, I discovered that it was a real photo, just photoshopped to make it more colour rich.

[grayscale]

It had been my default wallpaper for years (like many others) and really thought it was a photoshop designed picture. around 2009, I discovered that it was a real photo, just photoshopped to make it more colour rich.

Not according to the photographer.

[mulligan2k]

the wikipedia article states that the second pic is from 2006, heres how it looked last year (2011)

[cork1958]

I generally never used to bother changing wall papers at all and that wall paper was on my desktop for eons!! I mean, c'mon, who sets and looks at that for more than a couple seconds anyway?

Use my own pics, which almost never get changed, for wall paper on Windows 7 all the time though.

[Dick Montage]

I generally never used to bother changing wall papers at all and that wall paper was on my desktop for eons!! I mean, c'mon, who sets and looks at that for more than a couple seconds anyway?

Use my own pics, which almost never get changed, for wall paper on Windows 7 all the time though.

I'm not creative enough to come up with a real comment!

[Lee G. Veteran]

If you look at the high resolution photo of Bliss you can see a bird in the sky. :p

You can download a 47MB 600dpi TIFF image of Bliss here: http://dl.dropbox.co...ss%20600dpi.tif

[MS Bob 11]

Anyone want the original uncompressed 600dpi version of Bliss in TIFF format? PM me.

[cooky560 Veteran]

This is slightly offtopic, but great sig (Y)

[bogas04]

Great!

Here is a washed out version :p http://gatefan.deviantart.com/art/Washed-out-Bliss-112637055

[Charisma Veteran]

Great!

Here is a washed out version :p http://gatefan.devia...Bliss-112637055

I actually really love this one... so peaceful looking.

[Hum]

If you look at the high resolution photo of Bliss you can see a bird in the sky. :p

Uh-huh -- clearly an Alien craft.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

If you look at the high resolution photo of Bliss you can see a bird in the sky. :p

You can download a 47MB 600dpi TIFF image of Bliss here: http://dl.dropbox.co...ss%20600dpi.tif

Wow, thanks for pointing that one out, I hadn't seen that before! Retro thread is pretty awesome, lol! (Y)

[drazgoosh]

Well it changes depending on the season...

[Tomoko]

Uh-huh -- clearly an Alien craft.

[Praetor]

lol the shadow isn't even accurate!

[ozgeek]

You can download a 47MB 600dpi TIFF image of Bliss here: http://dl.dropbox.co...ss%20600dpi.tif

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