Stonehenge

Stonehenge
Image information
Original title	Stonehenge
Licensed from	Corbis
Originates from	Starlight Image Agency
Photographer	Roger Ressmeyer
Taken	November 12, 1989
Location	Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
License type	Rights-managed (no longer commerically available)
Windows information
Software	Windows XP
Type	Wallpaper
Original filename	RR009372
Resolution	800x600
File type	JPEG (.jpg)

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, United Kingdom 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.

Gallery

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  A 1280px version of the original image.

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  A very similar version titled Stonehenge by Moonlight.

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  Getty Images' rescanned version of Stonehenge by Moonlight, c. 2016

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  An alternate shot titled Red Sky over Stonehenge.

Names in other languages

This section is incomplete. If you have any other translations, please add them.
The name is the same in all languages that use the Latin alphabet, as it is a proper noun.

Language	Name	Translation
Arabic	تركيب صخري Tarkīb ṣaḵrī	Rock installation
Chinese Simplified	巨石阵 Jùshí zhèn	Stonehenge
Chinese Traditional	巨石陣	Stonehenge
Greek	Στόουνχεντζ Stóoun'chentz	Stonehenge
Japanese	ストーン ヘンジ Sutōn henji	Stonehenge
Korean	석상 Seogsang	Stone statue
Russian	Стоунхендж Stounchendž	Stonehenge

Trivia

• The name used in the Simplified Chinese version would be adopted for the place in the same language after voting by the public of China as part of "GREAT Names for GREAT Britain", a campaign by VisitBritain that took place in 2015.

Links

• Getty Images page (archived)