The wallpaper features a gently rolling sunlit hill on a background of soft & small puffy clouds against a vivid blue sky.
Shot by Charles O'Rear in 1996 in Sonoma Country, California, Microsoft later purchased the rights to the image in 2000, which used the image as Windows XP's default wallpaper when the operating system launched in 2001. Bliss is probably the world's most recognized photograph, seen by billions of people across hundreds of millions of devices.