If you grew up in the early 2000s, there is an image burned so deeply into your brain that you could probably redraw it from memory right now. Rolling green hills. A blue sky. A handful of clouds doing exactly what clouds are supposed to do.
You stared at it every day in the school computer lab while waiting for Internet Explorer to load. You stared at it in the office. You stared at it at the hotel check-in desk. Over a billion people have seen it. It is the most viewed photograph in human history. And the man who took it was just trying to get to his girlfriend’s house.
