Fast-forward to the year Microsoft was about to launch Windows XP. The company had designed the new operating system with the stability of its corporate OS, Windows , and the consumer features of Windows 98 and Windows ME. But what he did do was hop on an airplane with the original transparency and accept a hefty check for his work. The safest way to visit the spot is to find a spot in town to park, then hike back.
But an alternative is to find a place to turn around, then park next to a call box while driving east to Sonoma. Then carefully walk back a quarter mile or so, crossing the highway only when no cars are coming. When we had computers on our desk, that was on the screen'. Anywhere on this planet right now, if you stop somebody on the street and you show somebody that photograph, they're going to say 'I've seen that somewhere, I recognise that'.
Although there can never be a true indication of how many people have seen Bliss , Chuck estimates it is in the billions. The worldwide spread of Windows XP means that he has seen his own work in some far-flung places.
An American photographer was allowed to go into North Korea. One of [the photographer's images] was in some power plant, there's a big board where two men were sitting. What's on the screen? I'm sure before they allowed the photographer to come in they had to clean all of the screens, make sure there was no stuff on there we couldn't share with the world. With a photo as iconic and as well-known as Bliss , there are bound to be people who don't quite share the same exuberance for the image as Chuck does.
There it is on all the monitors. To the woman who was working for the ferry company, I said 'that's my photograph! Despite using a myriad of film cameras during his photographic career, Chuck is now a fierce proponent of digital photography. He carries just one camera with him now -- a Panasonic Lumix LX3.
With a 28mm-equivalent lens "which I love", the LX3 is not a new camera by any means, but it does the job for him. When asked if a modern day high-end digital camera could recreate the look and feel of Bliss , Chuck believes that it could "probably do an even better job" than a medium format film model.
You can have a MB bit image, yet if your lens is not up to par, it doesn't matter, you might as well have a 10MB file. Chuck's previous photographic roles included stints at National Geographic and he was a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. Now, he spends his time photographing wine-producing regions across the globe for books, professional assignments and his website, wineviews. According to his wife Daphne, Chuck was one of the last photographers of his generation to move over to digital.
Now, he doesn't see himself going back after seven or eight years on the other side. On assignment in the film days, Chuck says that every time a photographer made an exposure they had "no idea" whether or not they got the photo or not.
Every shot's gotta count. Did he sign a non-disclosure agreement? It's just the way this world works: Creators are systematically give the short end of the stick. In cinema, then. I find it a-m-a-z-i-n-g the way screenplay writers I usually use DigiKam for tweaking photos, and Gimp for retouching.
Hasta la Vista, Microsoft! Sometimes I use a Bliss wallpaper with an overlaid rude reference to the inferiority of Windows. And DigiKam just isn't very good raw extraction software. GIMP, which is plenty good, still doesn't have vibrance. Ive used Windows for years. Never had a virus or trojan problem. Because I used to take the time to shut down open ports. This is less necessary these days but I use a virus scanner, hide my presence behind a router, stay away from dodgy web sites and never click on attachments or links in emails from people I don't know.
A couple of times I've been suckered by attachments from people I do know, but the virus checker saved me. Other than that, things seemed to have worked pretty well for me over the years. Right now I'm on 64 bit Windows 7.
I had to abandon XP because my Dell computer hardware failed after a number of years of good service. The 64 bit Win 7 is definitely a performance boost over the old machine. I still have windows xp installed on my system in Multi boot system for windows 7 and a abuntu. Because of a semblance to the set of a famous British pre-school television programme in my part of the world this image earned XP the moniker "Windows for Teletubbies".
My understanding was that MS had to pay a royalty for the desktop images for each copy of XP. Was this true? Cool video, I always assumed it was a photoshop image. Windows' BSOD has been seen way more times though. While I can't speak to your experience with WinXP, it simply does not have a reputation for blue screens of death. No sure I ever saw one in 5 years of use. Whereas with WinME it was twice a week, at least, for 6 years.
Microsoft made a big mistake in not marketing XP as an extension of Windows —which I understood to be reasonably stable. I also learnt about how to re-install the entire OS. And how to clone a C drive. In fact I still have a C drive clone with ME on it. The those idiots running MS managed to disprove my thinking and then did so again with Vista. It's been going on for too long for me to believe it's just a coincidence Not to take away from "Bliss", but it wasn't the only wallpaper that came with windows.
I would see more desktops showing the tulips than Bliss. Like most, I used my own images for wallpaper but I like many, I've seen this image and never used it because of the low rez. It's a shame because it's a fairly relaxing image. The report of XP's death is something of an exaggeration. It's still the default desktop where I work, and we have nearly 10, employees. Not sure when we're going to get Vista v2. Sorry, I mean to say Windows 7.
The bliss image always seemed a bit sinister to me - I always thought it would do well in an advert for a major tranquilizer. Yeah, the wallpaper that came up with a fresh installation of XP, and I usually immediately replaced it with one of my own at first boot. Does somebody else consider this picture to be overexposed?
I think exposure is spot on, especially with Velvia. Most likely he used a spot meter to get it right. I consider most of the digital photos this days way underexposed, dark and gloomy. I guess the cameras are trying to protect highlights from blowing. Is it still set as your desktop wallpaper? I always loved to customize everything :. It was always fun to copy a folder icon and paste it into Bliss with a title like, "Naked pics of boss" and then upload the modified Bliss.
People would see it and try to click on it I'm a CG-artist. I switched back to XP When dealing with complex 3D scenes I had problems with 3ds Max stability, and not having problems on Windows XP64 with these scenes. Maybe I has to buy new computer for windows7? But mine works fine on XP! Windows 7 gives me nothing above what I get in Windows XP. Windows XP could live 10 years more until bit era comes: , but Microsoft has to earn money with new versions, so they stopped the support of it.
Film is also alive :. Given the relatively low resolution x, if I'm not mistaken this photo had on the XP installation disk, I always thought it was some sort of digital artwork. Somewhere I do have a hi-res file, I found it on the Microsoft site a few years ago Must be on an old PC.
Would like to see a higher resolution scan of that slide! Desktop backgrounds during the early s were likely to be around x pixels so this file in Win XP is very scaled down compared to the original scan, needles to say. Always liked this background but because of the low resolution provided I never used it. Seriously, it's more like 10 people that haven't seen this picture then because they use a Mac.
Indeed I lost about half gigabyte of RAM. Well, I do love simple UI and it simply works for me, to make or change file association, file search features, drivers, etc. A 32bit OS and processor only has an address space of 4GB. You lose some of that because it gets used to address video RAM or other hardware's memory, therefore can't be used for main memory.
You're not alone :D I still do all my work with XP. And then boot Win7 if i need to do something that requires modern OS. My daughter emailed me yesterday and asked how do i change InDesign's file assosiation on Win7, when it trys to open in Illustrator. I said beats me. To me XP is like an old car: not everybody want to drive with a modern car. Some people drive with 50 year old cars, or even older yes? I thought it wasn't a real photo..
Good story, I remember the picture when I installed XP many times. Always changed to classic style, because I found the view artificial-agricultural, with no trees at all.
No landig places for birds, e. Always thought that this cannot be real, invented by some pale tech guy in a dark office Nonetheless, thanks for the story! I personally never used any wallpaper photo, but just solid dark gray to stay focused on my own work.
It took me multiple years to find out that the blue desktop is better to read the icons. Long live the RZ I will buy one using film. He was tracked down when they first announced the retirement of XP a while back. This article implies he has only just been found!
Farewell green hill, our organisation switched to Windows 7 last month as XP is no longer supported and in addition have locked all PCs to a plain black background which sucks. This picture was a true landscape photographer's inspiration for years, so some guys' negativity on it is kind of dumb. Not my favorite background, but I really thought it was photoshopped. The color rendition and the latitude of the film were enough trick.
I also believed there was heavy photoshopping involved, including the shadows; and because of the obvious fake look i never liked the picture despite its immediate appeal. Apple is years ahead. Microsoft had that OS for 6 years - Even if you exclude Vista, XP would've only been around for 8 years. You seem to think that OS X today is extremely different from when it was introduced in Well, it isn't.
The only reason XP has been supported for such a long time is that the customers demand it. Microsoft has a very different philosophy than Apple when it comes to upgrades and backwards compatibility. Try running software that is more than a couple of years old on a brand new Mac and you will see what I mean; most of the time it simply doesn't work, forcing you to upgrade.
Which Mac OS are you referring to? The old one 9 and before? I guess Unix is old though. Don't delude yourself Mac has had stability and compatibility problems--the new Mavericks liked to crash the whole system for several weeks after release. Albeit Apple fixed that mess quietly. My friend had so much issue problem with Mac OS X and it wasn't fun at all.
It was very unstable at times. Apple apologised for a major problem and updated to recent version last month and lots of problem seems to have been fixed. Windows XP cannot be beaten for stability, the most stable I have ever seen. If what you said made any sense whatsoever, then when I upgraded the exact same hardware to WinXP, running many of the same applications, I'd have had continued system crashes.
Whereas maybe I had two total system crashes in 5 years with WinXP on the same hardware. And you clearly don't know much about the vast faults with some of the Microsoft operating systems--like ME. Note, I'm not even a Mac user, but on average Macs are more stable and have been for 25 years--and a big part of the bad average for Microsoft is WindowsME.
Given the complete ignorance of your statement, I'll guess either you work for Microsoft, or started using computers in I have 20 years of quite profound experience. Day and night-work- many years winxp only. You can be sure when problems occured i examined that to the ground. Winxp is and was stable. If one let it go, does not do service from time to time no wonder your problems. And you were very silly to defend it.
Blah, blah, blah, I didn't say much about XP. And don't need advice about how to keep it running from someone not interested or familiar with Windows' faults over the years. Nice picture! XP 64 is the best Windows ever made. Still using it. And still shooting film! You're "not happy" with arguably the best version of Windows since, well I'm talking about 7, obviously. I was driving on that freeway between LA and SF and thought this area looked like the window desktop, ha I guess it is.
The valley rolling hills were cool looking and thought about that commercial, happy cows come from California. Napa is north of SF, not saying there's nothing similar to the south of SF, but it can't be the same hill which you saw. I have a hard time believing it was not adjusted digitally. Perhaps not by the phtoographer, but maybe by MS. They like to oversaturate even more than Olympus does.
If Bill Gates had to pay out a nickle for every crash of Windows ME, he'd be much less monied--likely in debt. I also had spent a lot of too much time with WINM. Ok maybe i was lucky since no intense photowork had been done. And I spent 6 years with WinMe crashing nearly daily. And the same hardware crashed once or twice in the next 6 years when running XP.
If you'd simply said, "I had decent luck with ME.
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