Charles O'Rear

Charles O'Rear (born 1941) is an American stock photographer for Corbis (now owned by Visual China Group). He is best known for taking Windows XP's default wallpaper Bliss, which has become one of the most viewed images in the world as a result of XP's success. He also took Red moon desert, included in the same OS, and the wallpaper used in a Blackcomb UI demo.

In 1980 he co-founded stock photo agency Westlight with Craig Aurness (who took the XP Beta sample picture Surfer). The company would be bought by Bill Gates' Corbis in 1998, one of the stock photo agencies Microsoft frequently licensed from.