Charles O'Rear (born 1941) is an American photographer best known for his photos of wine country and the image Bliss [1] that was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP.
During the 1970s, he contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s DOCUMERICA project. O’Rear photographed for National Geographic Magazine for more than 25 years. He began his focus on winemaking in 1978 as an assignment to photograph the Napa Valley. Afterwards, he moved to Napa Valley and began photographing wine production around the world.[2][3] To date, O’Rear has provided photographs for seven wine books.
O'Rear's photograph of the rolling hills of Sonoma County[4], titled Bliss, was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP and as part of the Microsoft Corporation US$200 million advertising campaign, Yes you can. The image is also available as one of the many image options on Capital One credit cards, and has been subject to many parodies.