Makes sense, considering the 79-year-old Missouri native was a staff photographer for The Kansas City Star and Los Angeles Times, plus spent 25 years shooting for National Geographic - where he twice landed cover images. “Every Friday afternoon I’d drive down to see her, spend the afternoon, then drive home,” he tells me over the phone from his North Carolina home. off Hwy 12, is the subject of one of the world's most viewed photos: Windows XP's default desktop wallpaper. Helena to Marin to see his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Daphne Larkin.
He drove past it more than 100 times in the mid-’90s on his way from St. Now blanketed by endless rows of wine grapes is “Bliss” hill, the subject of one of the most-viewed images in history: the default desktop wallpaper for the Windows XP operating system.Ĭharles O’Rear knows this hill well.
