This Could Be The Most Famous Picture In The World

Do you recognise the picture above? Chances are very high that you would recognise it almost immediately.

Yes, this is the default wallpaper for Microsoft Windows XP which was released in 2001 and has since had more than 400 million copies in use as at 2006 (excluding pirated copies). So we know for a fact that this particular picture has been seen several billion times over the years.

The image is called Bliss, it is a real photo of a real place (Sonoma County,California) it is free of any digital manipulation and the photo was taken by photographer Charles O'Rear in 1996.

Microsoft now owns all the copyright to this picture and the photographer, Charles O'Rear cannot say exactly how much Microsoft bought it from him (because of a Non-disclosure agreement) but he would only say that it was an "extraordinary amount" and one of the largest ever paid to a living, working photographer.

Some Hollywood Actors Posing With Their Stunt Doubles

Stuntsmen and women are generally unsung heroes of the movie industry.

You think those fancy moves and daring manouvers are made by your favourite actresses and actors? Look again, most of these moves are made by professional stuntspeople acting as body doubles for these movie stars.

But thanks to great editing, matching wardrobe and a body double that looks similar to the movie actors everything works just perfect.

Below are pictures of some Hollywood actors and actresses taken with these professional stuntspeople who acts as their body doubles in movies.

Andrew Garfield with stuntman in The Amazing SpiderMan.

Kirsten Stewart and body double Roberta Murga (Right) 

Harrison Ford with double Vic Armstrong, Indiana Jones.

Regina King with a stuntwoman, Southland (2009).

Michelle Morgan with stunt double Kateri Cowley. 

Shia LaBeouf with a stunt double in Transformers.

Robert Pattinson with stand-in Paul Darnel, Twilight (2008).

Natalie Portman with stunt double in Black Swan

Angelina Jolie with stunt-double Eunice Huthart, Salt (2010).

Daniel Craig with a stunt double on the set of Skyfall (2012)

Jennifer Lopez with stunt double Daniel Arroyo(yes, he is a man).

Kate Beckinsale with stand-in Alicia Vela Bailey, Total Recall (2012)

Rupert Grint with stunt double Anthony Knight. 

Charlize Theron with stunt woman Alicia Vela-Bailey

Dwayne Johnson with double in Pain & Gain.

Emma Watson surrounded by stunt doubles, Harry Porter and the Deathly Hallows (2010).

Gerard  Butler with double Ele Bardha, Machine Gun Preacher (2011).

Kate Winslet and a stunt double, Titanic (1997).

Brad Pitt with stand-in Rick English, World War Z (2013).

Sarah Mitchelle Gellar with stand-in Sophia Crawford, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Nicole Kidman with stand-in Alicia Vela-Bailey, Just Go With It (2011)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt with double Austin Horse, Premium Rush (2012).

January Jones with a stand-in on set of X-Men:First Class (2011)

Photo Comparisms of Hollywood Actors And The Real Characters They Portrayed

Below is a gallery of pictures in which Hollywood actors portrayed real-life characters.

Hollywood has made a lot of Biopics over the years and you can clearly see from these photos that they have gone to great lenghts to make the actors look like the real characters.

Hit or miss? You be the judge. Relax and enjoy the pictures.

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great (Alexander)

Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page (The Notorious Bettie Page) 

Gary Busey as Budy Holly (The Budy Holly Story)

Eric Bana as Chopper Reid (Chopper)

Tom Cruise as Claus Von Stauffenberg (Valkyrie)

Jeff Daniels as Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Gettysburg)

John Cusack as Edgar Alan Poe(The Raven)

Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brokovich)

John Wayne as Genghis Khan (The Conqueror)

Sam Riley as Ian Curtis (Control)

Andy Serkis as Ian Dury (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)

Jack Nicholson as James R. Hoffa (Hoffa)

Colin Firth as King George VI (The King's Speech)

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali (Ali)

Heath Ledger as Ned Kelly (Ned Kelly) 

Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler (The Downfall)

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs (Jobs)

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin (Game Change)

Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls of Fire!)

Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto Che Guevara (Che)

Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK) 

Adrien Brody as Salvadore Dali (Midnight In Paris)

Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde (Wilde)

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela (Invictus)

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote (Capote)

Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl (A Mighty Heart)

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)

Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh (Lust For Life)

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk (Milk)

Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso (Surviving Picasso)

Gary Sinise as Harry Truman (Truman)

George C. Scott as George S. Patton (Patton)

Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover (J. Edgar)

Meryl Streep as Julia Child (Julie & Julia)

Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jnr (The Rat Pack)

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash (Walk the Line)

Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock)

Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman (Man on The Moon)

Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo (Frida)

James Franco as Aron Ralston (127 Hours)

Brad Pitt as Billy Beane (Money Ball)

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)

Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin ( The Last King Of Scotland)

Josh Brolin as George W. Bush (W.)

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan (I'm Not There)

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles (Ray)

Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious (Sid and Nancy)

Audrey Taotou as Coco Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)

Leonardo Di Caprio as Howard Hughes ( The Aviator)

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II (The Queen)

Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi (Gandhi)

Denzel Washington as Malcolm X (Malcolm X)

Madonna as Eva Peron (Evita)

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison(The Doors)

Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix (All Is By My Side)

Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe (My Week With Marilyn)

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)

Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)

James Franco as James Dean (James Dean)

Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla-Perez (Selena)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln)