Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a wallpaper included in Windows XP, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by Roger Ressmeyer on November 12, 1989, who also took Radiance and Windows 2000's Solar Eclipse. It depicts the monument Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England at night, despite the sky looking rather clear.

Stonehenge itself would later appear in a Longhorn stonehenge wallpaper used in a few UI demos, along with Windows 7's GB-wp1 used in the British version.

Alternate shots
Stonehenge was part of a series of photos, which included ones that are more obviously at night, as well as a very similar but slightly brighter shot titled Stonehenge by Moonlight. It is also worth noting that the Getty Images versions of the images are noticeably brighter looking compared to the original Corbis version used in XP, so they were likely rescanned by Getty after VCG acquired Corbis in 2016; Getty maintain physical archives on their behalf. All images in the series became restricted assets on Getty in early 2020 when it discontinued rights-managed licensing in favor of royalty free licensing; they were not converted to royalty free, so they were taken down in late 2020.

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Links

 * Getty Images page (archived)