[WEEK7] Charles O'Rear

"Bliss"

I believe that this photograph have been seen by almost everyone all across the globe.
Microsoft purchased this image for use as the default Windows XP wallpaper.
It is definitely the most well known photograph in the world that was taken by a wine enthusiast, photographer who live in Napa Valley, none other the Charles O'Rear.

Charles O'Rear has been taking photographs for National Geographic magazine for 25 years, travelling globally to photograph wine harvests in different regions and has since produced about 10 wine books.
'I passed this location many times and knew that for a couple of weeks every January the field becomes green and clouds gather for storms. I always carry a camera and, one day, it happened - the clouds and grasses were perfect.'

Without having said that, 
I doubt you knew who Charles O'Rear was.
Only when I mention the picture named "Bliss" would you recognise that he was the one whom has captured this image with a captivating landscape that was just near from where he lived.
The images that you see the first time you booted up the Windows XP operating system. 

'I passed this location many times and knew that for a couple of weeks every January the field becomes green and clouds gather for storms. I always carry a camera and, one day, it happened - the clouds and grasses were perfect.'

Charles O'Rear was just there at the perfect moment which he proceeded to documented it.

The tone of blue color in the sky with different shapes of cloud,

the vivid green of pasture with few yellow followers in front,

the curve of the prairie with plateaus right far behind.

It was really an amazing landscape photograph.

There's also others of Charles O'Rear's work,

From his photographs, I realized a constant trend. His works tend to be really basic, the repitation of the few lines, the contrast between the few colours that interact and complement each colour and the repeating of shapes through the picture often set me thinking.

The mindset of thinking, "Less is More".

Through simple photograph, it makes you think and feel more.

Like you were actually there.

References : http://www.wineviews.com