Mark Karrass
Mark Karrass is a stock photographer for Corbis (now owned by Visual China Group). He has taken several stock images that were used in Windows: the Windows XP wallpaper Ascent, sample pictures Blue hills and Winter, user account picture chess, Argentinian XP Starter Edition's Parque_Nacional_los_Glaciares and alleged Longhorn demo wallpaper Forest of Redwood Trees. As his photos were royalty free and not exclusive to Corbis, they were cross-licensed to other sites such as Getty Images, although they have since been taken down except on Photononstop. Very little is known about Karrass himself, although he could possibly be Mark Karras, who once owned a stock photo agency called West Stock.
Images used in Windows
| Title | Name | Origin | Used in | Notes | |
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Forest of Redwood Trees | N/A (unofficially referred to as Aero Woods) | Corbis | Unknown Longhorn demo (wallpaper) | |
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Mountain with the Moon | Ascent | Corbis | Windows XP (wallpaper) | |
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Hills of Colville National Forest | Blue hills | Corbis | Windows XP (sample picture) | |
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Chess Pieces | chess (Windows XP) Chess Pieces (WLM) |
Corbis | Windows XP (user account picture) Windows Live Messenger (user account picture) |
Background was originally blue; recolored to red. |
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Wild Horses Grazing in Patagonian Meadow | Parque_Nacional_los_Glaciares | Corbis | Windows XP Starter Edition (Argentina wallpaper) | |
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Snow and Frost on Trees in Forest | Winter (Windows XP) Winter forest (Windows XP builds 2474-2485) |
Corbis | Windows XP (sample picture) One Longhorn demo (wallpaper) |