I recognized the photo on the left? The most likely and most likely know that it is a default background of Microsoft Windows XP. Released in 2001, Windows XP has sold 400 million copies in use until January 2006 (not including the pirated versions). Perhaps no one has ever used the computer and has not seen this picture. And how many people used the computer? It is easy to calculate that this photograph is seen by billions of people around the world. Maybe a lot of people think that this is a computer generated image, a collage or graphic. It's actually very real and totally unadulterated picture shot by a professional photographer.
The picture is also known as Bliss (Bliss, happiness) is shot by Charles O'Rear in 1996. The place is Sonoma Country, California, southeast of Sonoma Valley. A little later, Microsoft bought the picture, but under the agreement, the purchase price remains confidential. We know only that it is one of the largest amounts ever paid photographer shot photos.
Today this area is quite changed and turned into a vineyard for wine production. The picture below was made by Simon Goldin in 2006. You can look in more detail in Google Maps, located at coordinates 38.250124, -122.410817.
Interestingly, only one photo taken accidentally and incidentally O'Rear has become an extremely famous photographer. He has traveled the world for 25 years for shooting different photographs National Geographic.